Whirlwind
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #15377
Whirlwind wipes the sky for four mana — every creature with flying dies at sorcery speed, full stop. Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury decks run it because green has almost no other answer to an evasive board, and a one-sided sweep against artifact flyers or angel tokens is exactly the rate green needs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury runs a ground-based elf engine with zero built-in answers to flying blockers or evasive threats, and Whirlwind fills that gap cleanly — clearing the air so your elves can alpha strike or survive long enough to generate the mana advantage that wins the game.
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 |
In Commander, Whirlwind occupies a narrow but real niche: green's answer to a flyer-heavy board when Plummet or Aerial Predation hits only one target and you need the whole sky cleared. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but no competitive shell wants a four-mana sorcery that does nothing on an empty board. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Whirlwind occasionally shows up, again in green planeswalker piles that can't handle evasion any other way.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Whirlwind sits firmly in bulk territory — it's cheap enough to slot in without hesitation if you need the effect. Demand is too narrow for the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.