---
name: "Thousand Winds"
mana_cost: "{4}{U}{U}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Creature — Elemental"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Flying", "Morph"]
set: "C19"
set_name: "Commander 2019"
collector_number: "100"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Raymond Swanland"
oracle_id: "81b50d34-d778-4606-80de-0e0780610d1f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/thousand-winds-c19"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Thousand Winds
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{U}{U}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Creature — Elemental
- **Keywords:** Flying, Morph

## Oracle Text
Flying
Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. 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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Icefeather Aven](/printing/icefeather-aven-c19.md) — Creature — Bird Shaman
2. [Whip-Spine Drake](/printing/whip-spine-drake-tsr.md) — Creature — Drake
3. [Mistfire Weaver](/printing/mistfire-weaver-ktk.md) — Creature — Djinn Wizard
4. [Maelstrom Djinn](/printing/maelstrom-djinn-fut.md) — Creature — Djinn
5. [Mistform Shrieker](/printing/mistform-shrieker-ons.md) — Creature — Illusion
6. [Dermoplasm](/printing/dermoplasm-lgn.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Commander 2019 (C19) #100
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Raymond Swanland

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2014-09-20)* Because the permanent is on the battlefield both before and after it's turned face up, turning a permanent face up doesn't cause any enters-the-battlefield abilities to trigger.
- *(2014-09-20)* The face-down spell has no mana cost and has a mana value of 0. When you cast a face-down spell, put it on the stack face down so no other player knows what it is, and pay {3}. This is an alternative cost.
- *(2014-09-20)* Any time you have priority, you may turn the face-down creature face up by revealing what its morph cost is and paying that cost. This is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to. Only a face-down permanent can be turned face up this way; a face-down spell cannot.
- *(2014-09-20)* Morph lets you cast a card face down by paying {3}, and lets you turn the face-down permanent face up any time you have priority by paying its morph cost.
- *(2014-09-20)* When the spell resolves, it enters the battlefield as a 2/2 creature with no name, mana cost, creature types, or abilities. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the creature can still grant it any of these characteristics.
- *(2014-09-20)* At any time, you can look at a face-down spell or permanent you control. You can't look at face-down spells or permanents you don't control unless an effect instructs you to do so.