Parting Gust
Instant
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $1.13
- EDHREC rank
- #1772
Parting Gust bounces a nonland permanent and creates a 1/1 white Spirit token — two meaningful effects stapled to a single spell, and the whole thing costs two mana at instant speed. Abigale, Eloquent First-Year turns that token into a scry trigger, making this a tempo play that also digs toward your next threat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year triggers whenever a token enters under your control, so Parting Gust does double duty — bounce a blocker and immediately scry to set up your next draw.
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope's life-gain payoffs trigger off token creation, and Parting Gust supplies a Spirit token at instant speed while clearing a problem permanent in the same motion.
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar cares about tokens entering the battlefield, and Parting Gust delivers one cheaply enough that it fits comfortably on the curve without slowing the engine.
Preston, the Vanisher
Parting Gust's bounce effect triggers Preston, the Vanisher's ability to create Illusion tokens whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls leaves the battlefield, turning a simple tempo play into a board-presence multiplier.
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Ketramose, the New Dawn rewards repeated token generation with card advantage, and Parting Gust feeds that loop while also answering a threat — clean two-for-one efficiency for a two-mana spell.
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 |
In Commander, Parting Gust earns its slot in any deck that wants token generation stapled to interaction — the instant speed matters when you're navigating four players. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too low-impact compared to dedicated removal or dedicated token payoffs, so it rarely clears the bar for serious constructed play. Standard is the one exception where its density of effects can be genuinely competitive, especially in token-based aggressive or midrange shells that value the Spirit entering on the opponent's end step. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the power ceiling is just too low.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.13 cheap tier
At $1.13, Parting Gust sits firmly in the cheap tier — affordable enough to include on pure role-player merits without any budget justification needed. It's a new-release price that will likely soften over time, but at this level there's no reason to wait.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.