A-Soul of Windgrace's Lands Matter Ramp & Recursion

Why Play This Deck

A-Soul of Windgrace is the most powerful lands-matter commander available in BGR Brawl. Every single ability rewards you for doing what this deck already wants to do — play lands, discard lands, and recur lands from graveyards. The {R} discard-a-land ability turns excess land draws into fresh cards, solving the classic lands-matter flood problem. The {B} indestructible ability protects your investment at instant speed. And the enter/attack trigger recurs lands from ANY graveyard, meaning your fetchland cracks, your opponents' destroyed lands, and your own discarded lands all become free land drops. The color combination gives you the best ramp in Green, the best disruption in Black (Thoughtseize, Inquisition, Liliana), and Red's explosive burst spells like Jeska's Will. The result is a deck that plays a proactive, snowballing game plan backed by a robust interactive suite — exactly what competitive Brawl demands.

Play Summary

The deck operates across three distinct phases. In the early game (turns 1–3), the priority is deploying mana acceleration and hand disruption. Deathrite Shaman, Lotus Cobra, and Arcane Signet accelerate into the commander, while Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek strip the opponent's best answer before you commit to the board. Exploration and Azusa come down early to enable multiple land drops per turn, setting up the landfall engine before Soul of Windgrace even arrives. In the mid game (turns 4–6), Soul of Windgrace takes over. Attack every turn to recur lands — prioritize fetchlands so they can be cracked again immediately with Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator. Use the {R} discard ability to cycle surplus lands into action, and hold up instant-speed removal (Fatal Push, Terminate, Abrupt Decay) to answer threats. Tireless Tracker and The Gitrog Monster convert every land drop into card advantage, keeping your hand full. Scute Swarm and Omnath, Locus of Rage begin generating board presence that compounds with every subsequent land drop. In the late game (turns 7+), the deck closes quickly. Ancient Greenwarden doubles all landfall triggers, turning each land drop into an exponential board event. Primeval Titan fetches the final utility lands needed. Craterhoof Behemoth ends the game in a single combat step. Emrakul, the Promised End is the ultimate insurance policy — cast it cheaply off a full graveyard, take your opponent's turn, and use their resources to seal the win.

Key Synergies

Opening Hand

The ideal opening hand contains 3 lands (including at least one fetchland or dual), one piece of early acceleration (Deathrite Shaman, Lotus Cobra, Arcane Signet, or Exploration), and one piece of hand disruption (Thoughtseize or Inquisition of Kozilek). You want to cast Soul of Windgrace on turn 3 or 4 and immediately begin attacking to recur lands. Hands with Lotus Cobra plus a fetchland are the most explosive openers — crack the fetch on your turn to generate mana and trigger landfall, then recur the fetch with Crucible next turn and crack it again. Thoughtseize or Inquisition in the opener is always correct: identify the opponent's game plan and strip their best answer before you commit your resources. Azusa or Exploration in the opener alongside 3+ lands is a keep regardless of the rest — getting to five or six lands by turn 3 puts you so far ahead that the rest of the hand barely matters. Hard mulligan any hand with fewer than 2 lands, any hand with no acceleration and no disruption, or any hand that is purely reactive with no way to develop the board. In a 99-card singleton format, a 6-card hand with the right pieces consistently outperforms a 7-card hand that does nothing until turn 4.