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Blessed Wind

Sorcery

Target player's life total becomes 20.

CMC
9
Mana cost
{7}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Prophecy
Price
$0.45
EDHREC rank
#24446
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Blessed Wind card art
Blessed Wind sets a player's life total to 20 — a one-card answer to poison counters, infect damage, or any life-total manipulation like Wound Reflection that would otherwise close the game. Nine mana is a real cost, but in Commander the effect hits any target player, making it a political tool or a self-save in a single card.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Blessed Wind is a Commander-only card in practice. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but nine-mana sorceries that set a life total to 20 have no competitive role there. In Commander, Blessed Wind earns its slot in lifegain decks that want a reset button — particularly against infect or poison strategies where a player drops to near-zero and needs an exact restoration rather than incremental padding. Oathbreaker is legal but the 20-life starting total makes the effect narrower.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.45 bulk tier

At $0.45, Blessed Wind is deep bulk — a niche nine-mana spell with a narrow use case keeps it there. Supply is not scarce enough for this to move unless infect becomes a dominant Commander archetype, so pick it up cheap and don't expect it to appreciate.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.