Words of Wind

Enchantment

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Onslaught
Price
$2.94
EDHREC rank
#14964
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Words of Wind card art
Words of Wind turns every draw trigger into a bounce effect — opponents return a permanent to hand each time you draw, which in the right shell means the table is perpetually locked out of their best pieces. The cost is real: you skip the actual card draw, so you need an engine like Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain that generates draws faster than you need the cards.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.22

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain draws a card every time you cast a historic spell, which means Words of Wind can bounce a permanent for each artifact or legendary you play — turning a normal Jhoira storm turn into a full board wipe before you ever swing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Words of Wind is a Commander card, full stop — the effect only scales when opponents have meaningful permanents to lose and you have the density of draw triggers to fire it repeatedly. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with far more efficient disruption, and no deck there wants to replace a card draw with a bounce. Commander is where it earns its slot, specifically in artifact-storm or draw-engine builds that generate five or more draw triggers a turn.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.94 cheap tier

At $2.94, Words of Wind sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's an easy pickup if you're building the right shell. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move much in either direction.

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