Favorable Winds
Enchantment
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Starter Commander Decks
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #3106
Favorable Winds turns every flier you control into a permanent +1/+1 buff for two mana — the on-board impact is immediate and scales with your board. In dedicated flying tribal builds, especially under Kangee, Sky Warden, it's a near-automatic inclusion.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kangee, Sky Warden
Kangee, Sky Warden's whole gameplan is stacking power and toughness on fliers, and Favorable Winds is a permanent enchantment that does exactly that from the moment it resolves — no triggers, no conditions, just a global anthem that makes every bird and sphinx hit harder.
Cynette, Jelly Drover
Cynette, Jelly Drover generates a flood of flying Food tokens, and Favorable Winds converts that wide board into a legitimate combat threat by pushing every one of those tokens from irrelevant to meaningful in the air.
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested cares about having the most powerful flier on board, and Favorable Winds quietly inflates that ceiling by pumping your entire aerial team — every point of power it adds reinforces Kastral's own triggered advantage.
Alela, Artful Provocateur
Alela, Artful Provocateur floods the board with 1/1 faerie tokens that already fly, and Favorable Winds upgrades every one of them to 2/2s without costing an additional card slot — it's a straightforward anthem for a token swarm that's already in the air.
Errant and Giada
Errant and Giada run an Angel tribal engine that's almost entirely airborne, and Favorable Winds stacks on top of Giada's own +1/+1 counters to compound the power of every Angel that enters — two separate buffs hitting the same creatures adds up fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Favorable Winds is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its practical home is Commander flying tribal. In competitive Constructed formats it's too narrow — a two-mana anthem that only buffs fliers can't carry a full deck without deep tribal infrastructure, and those formats rarely provide it at the required consistency. In Commander the math changes: a 100-card singleton format running 30+ fliers turns Favorable Winds into a cheap, resilient buff that never gets worse as the game goes long. Oathbreaker offers a similar tribal upside if your signature spell is flying-adjacent.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Favorable Winds is bulk — buy the playset without thinking about it. Bulk enchantments at this price point rarely spike unless a new commander drives a sudden demand surge, so pick up copies now and don't look back.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.