Storm, Windrider

Format: Commander

Commander: Storm, Windrider

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Selesnya flying-tribal tempo/value deck helmed by Storm, Windrider, whose static ability makes opposing flyers unable to attack you or block your creatures - a real defensive layer in a format full of evasive threats - while her targeting trigger grants flying to your creatures whenever you cast a spell that points at them. The 99 leans fully into that heroic/repartee shell: a dense suite of instant-speed combat tricks, auras, and cantrips (Defiant Strike, Angelic Gift, Feather of Flight, Rebellious Strike) that pump and draw, feeding Season of Growth and the repartee payoffs like Informed Inkwright and Stirring Hopesinger. The deck wins by accruing value through evasive combat: Angels such as Sephara, Sky's Blade, Sigarda, Font of Blessings, and Battle Angels of Tyr beat down while Ghalta, Primal Hunger closes as a trample finisher. An extremely dense protection suite (Heroic Intervention, Restoration Magic, Tamiyo's Safekeeping, Selfless Spirit) and a turn-lock package (Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar, Dragonlord Dromoka, Jennifer Walters) keep opponents off your turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angelic Gift
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brigone, Soldier of Meletis
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Defiant Strike
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dromoka's Command
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feather of Flight
  • 1 Firemane Commando
  • 1 Fog
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Graduation Day
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Gryff's Boon
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Informed Inkwright
  • 1 Invisible Force Field
  • 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magus of the Moat
  • 1 Mavinda, Students' Advocate
  • 1 Mutagenic Growth
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rebellious Strike
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Seeds of Strength
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sigarda, Font of Blessings
  • 1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
  • 1 Skyblade's Boon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stirring Hopesinger
  • 1 Storm, Queen of Wakanda
  • 1 Storm, Windrider
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Warriors' Lesson
  • 1 Windborn Muse