Cursed Windbreaker
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, manifest dread, then attach this Equipment to that creature. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Equipped creature has flying.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #16074
Cursed Windbreaker turns any creature into a repeatable -1/-0 applicator on a stick, and the enter-the-battlefield trigger means every blink resets the equip and fires it again. The one-mana equip cost keeps the engine cheap, but the card only earns its slot when you have a reliable way to abuse that ETB — otherwise it's a slow, narrow debuff.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Yorion, Sky Nomad blinks your entire board every time it enters, which means Cursed Windbreaker re-equips for free and fires its trigger on every Yorion activation — turning a single piece of Equipment into a recurring debuff engine that scales with how many creatures you're blinking.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cursed Windbreaker is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost entirely a Commander card in practice. In 60-card formats the effect is too incremental — draining a single point of power per swing rarely closes games before your opponent stabilizes, and dedicated Equipment strategies have tighter options. In Commander, the card finds its niche in blink and flicker shells where the ETB trigger fires repeatedly, or in decks that want to neutralize a specific high-power threat without spending a removal spell. It's not a staple in any format, but Commander is unambiguously where it does its best work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Cursed Windbreaker sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought if the synergy is there. Bulk Equipment rarely appreciates unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so treat it as a cheap enabler rather than a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.