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Kykar, Wind's Fury

Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Sacrifice a Spirit: Add {R}.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Core Set 2020 Promos
Price
$1.24
EDHREC rank
#3083
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Kykar, Wind's Fury card art
Kykar, Wind's Fury turns every noncreature spell into a 1/1 Spirit token and every sacrificed Spirit into a red mana, which means a single spell-heavy turn can generate both a board and a mana engine simultaneously. The cost is a four-mana legendary that paints a target on itself — but shells built around Sensei's Divining Top or helmed by Kasla, the Broken Halo treat that as a feature, not a liability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kasla, the Broken Halo

Kasla, the Broken Halo

76.2% of decks · synergy 0.66

Kasla, the Broken Halo cares deeply about casting noncreature spells and recurring them, and Kykar, Wind's Fury converts each of those spells into a Spirit token that can then cash out for red mana — the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop of spells, tokens, and mana.

02
Narset, Enlightened Exile

Narset, Enlightened Exile

63.6% of decks · synergy 0.53

Narset, Enlightened Exile triggers on attacking with creatures that have prowess or cast-from-exile effects, and Kykar, Wind's Fury supplies a steady stream of Spirit tokens to swing with while also generating mana to chain spells off whatever Narset exiles.

03
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.42

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned reduces the cost of spells that target multiple things, which lets the deck fire off cheap multi-target instants and sorceries at discount — every one of those spells hands Kykar, Wind's Fury a free Spirit token.

04
Gandalf of the Secret Fire

Gandalf of the Secret Fire

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.40

Gandalf of the Secret Fire rewards casting instants and sorceries on each player's turn, and Kykar, Wind's Fury makes each of those spells doubly productive by stapling a Spirit token onto the effect.

05
Elsha, Threefold Master

Elsha, Threefold Master

34.1% of decks · synergy 0.24

Elsha, Threefold Master wants to cast noncreature spells off the top of the library, and Kykar, Wind's Fury converts every one of those casts into a Spirit plus a latent red mana, accelerating the chain rather than interrupting it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Kykar, Wind's Fury lives — the token-and-mana engine scales with the volume of noncreature spells a 99-card deck can throw at it, and the four-player format gives you time to rebuild after removal. In Legacy and Vintage, Kykar is legal but largely ignored; four mana is a steep ask in formats that win on turns one through three, and the payoff requires a board state to matter. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: four mana for a value engine that needs more spells to function is too slow against linear aggro and efficient interaction. Oathbreaker is the one fringe format where Kykar, Wind's Fury sees occasional play, since the compressed 60-card singleton environment with a signature spell can produce the spell-density the engine needs.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.24 cheap tier

At $1.24, Kykar, Wind's Fury sits in the budget-staple tier — high enough synergy to appear in tens of thousands of decks, low enough price that there's no reason to hesitate on a copy. Demand is steady but not spiking, so this price is likely to stay flat unless a new commander pushes Jeskai spell-slinging back into the spotlight.

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