Windgrace Acolyte
Creature — Cat Warrior
Flying
When this creature enters, mill three cards and you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26130
Windgrace Acolyte is a three-mana 3/2 flier that draws a card when it enters and puts a land from your graveyard onto the battlefield — a real body with real value attached. The cost is that the land enters tapped, and the whole package sits at three mana in a format that keeps raising the bar for what a three-drop needs to do.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Windgrace Acolyte is a Commander card almost exclusively. In 60-card formats — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer — a 3/2 flier with a single ETB isn't competing for slots against the efficiency those formats demand, and the land recursion is too slow to matter when games end on turns four or five. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth a mention: the card is legal and the floor of a 3/2 flier that draws a card is real value at common, though dedicated graveyard-land synergies are narrow enough that it won't find a home there either. In Commander, Windgrace Acolyte earns its slot in any deck that actively fills the graveyard with lands — it replaces itself, returns a land untapped during your next turn sequence, and contributes a relevant body in the air.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Windgrace Acolyte is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb, so treat this as a no-risk pickup for any land-graveyard deck rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.