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Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
Vigilance
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
{B}, {T}, Tap X untapped Knights you control: Destroy target creature with power X or less.
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What Aryel, Knight of Windgrace actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
- Activated ability{B}, {T}, Tap X untapped Knights you control: Destroy target creature with power X or less.
- Keyword · vigilancevigilance
What an Aryel, Knight of Windgrace deck needs
Plays as knight typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- knight creatures (its text counts them)
- haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)
The Aryel, Knight of Windgrace deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
- Sword of Vengeance3 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- White Plume Adventurer3 mana
- Sword of the Paruns4 mana
- Gauntlets of Light3 mana
- Drumbellower3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Puresteel Paladin2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Corpse Knight2 mana
- Legion Lieutenant2 mana
- Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender2 mana
- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
- Danitha Capashen, Paragon3 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Gideon's Memorial2 mana
- Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- General's Enforcer2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana