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Thousand Winds

Creature — Elemental4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The whole engine here lives in the morph cost, not the face. A 5/6 flier for six mana is a fair body and nothing more; the cards that move the game are the 3 generic mana face-down 2/2 and the unmorph that follows. Flipping it up returns every other tapped creature to hand, which means the timing window is everything: you let the table commit to a swing, attackers tap out, and then you unmorph to bounce the lot into owners' hands while your own untapped board stays put. It is a one-sided mass tempo swing disguised as a vanilla beater, and the disguise is the point. The morph mechanic was built for exactly this kind of bluff, where a face-down 2/2 reads as nothing and the threat is what it might become. Most morph creatures pay off with a removal trigger or a stat boost; this one pays off with a board reset that punishes anyone who tapped out into it. The cost is real (the unmorph runs 5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana, so the full play is expensive and telegraphed once you have the mana untapped), and the bounce is symmetrical except for the "all other" clause that spares the creature doing the flipping. Read as a combat trick rather than a creature, it is a tempo blowout that asks you to hold up mana and wait for the room to overextend.

Thousand Winds (ddn)
DDN · #58rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Morph 5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return all other tapped creatures to their owners' hands.
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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