Eidolon of Astral Winds
Enchantment Creature — Spirit
Vigilance
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature has base power and toughness 4/4 and gains flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #15382
Eidolon of Astral Winds blankets the table with a Propaganda-style tax on attacking anything — including your opponents' creatures attacking each other — while sitting on a flying body that generates Role tokens whenever it attacks. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/3 is slow, and the tax only applies when creatures attack without flying, so evasion-heavy boards ignore it entirely. In Gylwain, Casting Director specifically, the Role-generation on attack turns every swing into free enchantment value, which is where the card earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gylwain, Casting Director
Gylwain, Casting Director triggers on casting creatures, but Eidolon of Astral Winds layers in a second token-generation angle by producing a Role each time it attacks — every combat step becomes an enchantment engine feeding Gylwain's gameplan while the defensive tax buys the time to set it all up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Eidolon of Astral Winds is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its practical home is Commander almost exclusively. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for a conditional combat deterrent is nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand. Commander is where the politics matter: a global flying-tax slows ground-based aggro across three opponents simultaneously, and the Role-token generation on attack gives it ongoing utility rather than a static tax that gets ignored once someone goes wide in the air. Oathbreaker is a reasonable fringe home if the signature spell or planeswalker rewards enchantment density, but the card sees essentially no play there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Eidolon of Astral Winds is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap order filler. Bulk rares with narrow Commander applications rarely move upward unless a new commander breaks them out, and nothing about its current trajectory suggests that's imminent.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gylwain, Casting Director
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.