DimirLegendary Creature — Faerie WizardWydwen, the Biting Gale
Mana value4Rank#17,076
The Commander
Guide
Gameplan
Wydwen is a slippery Dimir flier that dodges removal by bouncing herself for and 1 life, letting you protect a Voltron threat or repeatedly reuse enter-the-battlefield value. Play a tempo/control game: hold up flash interaction, deploy on opponents' end steps, and grind incremental advantage until you fly over for lethal or assemble a combo.
Strengths
- Self-bounce makes her extremely resilient to targeted removal and board wipes
- Flash + flying enables instant-speed politics and surprise blocks/attacks
- Cheap commander tax-dodging recursion that abuses ETB and blink synergies
- Dimir colors give the best removal, counters, and card advantage in the format
Weaknesses
- Her ability does nothing on its own to win — needs a strong supporting shell
- Bouncing repeatedly is mana- and life-intensive, draining resources
- Low base power (1/3-ish stats) means slow as a pure Voltron beater without buffs
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate, taxes (Rule of Law effects), and edict/sacrifice removal that ignores her bounce
Key Cards
- Faerie shell support is not a card —
Upgrade Path
Lean into protection and evasion: add cheap equipment/auras (Sword of Feast and Famine, Rogue's Passage) to weaponize her flying, plus flash-enabled interaction (Fierce Guardianship, Force of Negation). To raise power, build a true Faeries tribal or Dimir tempo-control shell with Bitterblossom, Spellstutter Sprite, and card-draw engines, and add a compact combo finisher so you're not relying solely on slow commander damage.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage from a buffed, hard-to-kill flying Wydwen
- ▸Grinding out the table with Dimir card advantage and evasive flyers
- ▸Assembling a control lock then closing with a finisher creature or combo
Archetypes
- Voltron — Self-bounce protects equipment/aura investment by saving her from removal while she flies in for commander damage.
- Control — Flash and Dimir interaction let her hold up answers and end-step value while she evades wraths.
- Blink/ETB Value — Repeatable hand return pairs with ETB creatures and clone effects, though it returns only herself.
- Faeries Tribal — As a flash-flying Faerie she headlines a flyers/tribal tempo build.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BU), by popularity.
