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Windfall

Sorcery

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Battle Royale Box Set
Price
$5.94
EDHREC rank
#149
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Windfall card art
Windfall empties every hand and replaces it at instant-like speed for three mana — when you're behind on cards, it resets the table; when your opponents are ahead, it punishes them for hoarding. One restriction worth knowing: unlike Approach of the Second Sun or Heliod, the Radiant Dawn pulling spells from the graveyard, Windfall dumps your hand entirely, so empty-hand timing is everything.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Windfall carries two restrictions that explain its format footprint: it's banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage, both formats where three mana refills a hand at instant speed into broken follow-ups fast enough to end games on the spot. Commander gives it a pass for two structural reasons — the four-player table means each opponent also refills, diluting the raw card advantage, and the 100-card singleton format makes chaining broken spells off a fresh seven far less reliable than in 60-card constructed.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

77.3% of decks · synergy 0.65

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn is a white-blue enchantment deck that mills itself and recurs pieces from the yard, making Windfall a clean refuel that stocks the graveyard for Heliod's recursion triggers at the same time.

02
Brallin, Skyshark RiderShabraz, the Skyshark

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark

72.7% of decks · synergy 0.64

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark converts every card drawn past the first into a ping and a +1/+1 counter, so Windfall drawing seven creates a six-damage burst and six counters split across the pair in a single cast.

03
Rograkh, Son of RohgahhSilas Renn, Seeker Adept

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

85.5% of decks · synergy 0.62

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is an artifact-storm shell that wants to empty its hand fast and refuel; Windfall is the reset button that reloads the hand after dumping cheap artifacts onto the battlefield.

04
Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

83.3% of decks · synergy 0.60

Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals damage whenever any player draws, so Windfall drawing seven cards for each of four players is effectively a 21-damage spell stapled to a refuel — it's the deck's single most efficient damage spike.

05
Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Xyris, the Writhing Storm

62.8% of decks · synergy 0.54

Xyris, the Writhing Storm creates a Snake token for each card your opponents draw, so Windfall minting up to 21 tokens across three opponents makes it one of the strongest single cards in the entire archetype.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Tolarian Winds is the closest budget substitute — discard your hand, draw that many cards, no opponents involved — for under $0.50, though you lose the group-wide symmetry that makes Windfall a political tool. Prosperity and Wheel of Fate both wheel the table for less money, but Prosperity scales with X mana and Wheel of Fate has a suspend delay that removes the crucial timing advantage Windfall provides.

Price Context

Current price

$5.94 mid tier

At $5.94, Windfall sits in the mid tier — cheap enough to justify the slot in almost any blue deck that wants refuel options, expensive enough that pure budget builds might hesitate. It's a heavily reprinted card with a stable floor; don't expect the price to spike, but it's unlikely to drop meaningfully given consistent Commander demand.

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