Myojin of Seeing Winds
Legendary Creature — Spirit
Myojin of Seeing Winds enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Seeing Winds has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.
- CMC
- 10
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $6.54
- EDHREC rank
- #12415
Myojin of Seeing Winds enters and immediately draws you a card for every nonland permanent you control — in a developed board, that's often ten or more cards at once. The cost is steep at nine mana, but Agatha's Soul Cauldron and similar untap or cost-reduction engines make that number negotiable, and a hand refill of that magnitude ends games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Peter Parker
Peter Parker's ability to copy creatures and generate wide boards of token permanents means Myojin of Seeing Winds can easily draw fifteen or twenty cards when its divinity counter is spent — the Myojin becomes the payoff that converts all that token production into an unassailable grip.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Myojin of Seeing Winds is genuinely powerful — a forty-card grip is game-ending in a singleton format where topdecking matters and opponents share a single threat pool. Nine mana is reachable in the ramp-heavy midgame that Commander enables, and the indestructibility means removal won't trade up against it before the ability fires. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are legal on paper, but a nine-mana do-nothing-until-next-turn enchantment creature never sees play in any of them. Oathbreaker is the one outlier worth mentioning: as a signature spell it would be illegal, but as part of the 58 it's a passable late-game refill in the same way it is in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Agatha's Soul CauldronMyojin of Seeing WindsKindred BoonMind Over Matter
Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw; Near-infinite looting; Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Near-infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Hullbreaker Horror and Consecrated Sphinx both cost a fraction of the price and generate card advantage at a more incremental pace — neither matches the one-shot grip replenishment of Myojin of Seeing Winds, but they're harder to answer and start producing value immediately. If the draw-everything effect is what you're after, Minds Aglow or Jace's Archivist gets closer to the mass-draw ceiling at under a dollar, though both require mana investment or cooperation rather than a clean activated ability.
Price Context
Current price
$6.54 mid tier
At $6.54, Myojin of Seeing Winds sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it won't break a budget build. Demand is narrow since it only shines in specific permanents-matter Commander shells, so the price is unlikely to spike without a meaningful reprint or a breakout commander pushing its inclusion rate higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.