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Gwaihir the Windlord

Legendary Creature — Bird Noble · {4}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

This spell costs {2} less to cast as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn. Flying, vigilance Other Birds you control have vigilance.

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What Gwaihir the Windlord actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Static ability · keyword_grantOther Birds you control have vigilance.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What a Gwaihir the Windlord deck needs

Plays as bird typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• creatures that profit from vigilance (it grants the team it)
• bird creatures (its text counts them)

The Gwaihir the Windlord deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 33× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Gwaihir the Windlord

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.

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