Card

The Wind Crystal

Mana cost {2}{W}{W}

Legendary Artifact

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. {4}{W}{W}, {T}: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 121 known combos. 5 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · FIN · #43
Cheapest printing
€5.27
EDHREC salt
0.35
Color identity
White

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

121 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    In the rare case where you control two of The Wind Crystal, life you gain is multiplied by four. Three of The Wind Crystal means life you gain is multiplied by eight, and so on.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    If an effect would set your life total to a specific number that's higher than your current life total, that effect causes you to gain life equal to the difference. The Wind Crystal will then double the amount of life that effect would cause you to gain. For example, if you have 3 life and an effect says that your life total "becomes 10," you would gain 7 life which The Wind Crystal doubles to 14, so your life total will actually become 17.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause The Wind Crystal's second ability to apply, even though it will cause your team's life total to increase.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of The Wind Crystal's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of white spells you cast.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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