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Hero of the Winds

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaWhite mana

The 1/4 flying body is a defensive stat line stapled to an aggressive payoff, and the friction between those two halves is the whole design. This is a creature built to reward a deck full of cheap targeting spells (auras, combat tricks, protection pieces) by converting each one into a team-wide anthem for the turn. The trigger cares only that a spell you cast targets it, not what the spell does, so a one-mana protective cantrip and a five-mana enchantment pump your board identically. That decoupling of the payoff from the payload is what makes the card interesting to build around: the "hero" motif in this vein always asks you to point spells at your own creatures, but most designs of that stripe attach the reward to a specific keyword or a specific spell type. Here the reward is the act of targeting itself, which quietly widens the pool of enablers to anything that can legally point at a 1/4 flier. The body is deliberately built to survive: high toughness keeps it on the board long enough to accrue triggers across multiple turns, and flying lets the anthem reach a defended opponent even when your other attackers are grounded. It is a support piece that wants to be the hub of a go-wide, spell-slinging aggressive shell, contributing almost nothing until the enablers arrive to point at it.

Hero of the Winds (thb)
THB · #23uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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