Windgrace

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Windgrace
Lord Windgrace
Details
Race	Panther Planeswalker After death Avatar
Birthplace	Urborg, Dominaria
Lifetime	The Time of Legends-Rift Era
Born	Before 28 AR
Died	4500 AR
Colors
Currently:
Sources
Invasion Cycle, Time Spiral, Planar Chaos

Lord Windgrace was a panther warrior planeswalker from Urborg on Dominaria. He was one of the Nine Titans that Urza gathered to fight Phyrexia. After his death, he became a protective Avatar of Urborg.

Appearance and character

Windgrace had a distaste, maybe even an outright hatred, for anything artifice. This stemmed partially from his time spent with Urza, seeing the man's creations as somewhat destructive, and from his time spent fighting the Phyrexians.

He cared deeply for his homeland of Urborg, going as far as to watch over it after his death.

Windgrace had access to black, red, and green mana.

History

Windgrace hates artifacts.

Windgrace began his rise to fame at age twelve. He claimed to have been the warrior chief of his tribe. He was older than Urza, since he remembered Urborg being a forest before it was submerged by the Sylex Blast. Seeing his entire world devastated by the detonation of a magical device instilled in him a hatred for artifacts.

He was described by Teferi as the "panther king of Urborg" and it was told that the panthers ruled Urborg in peace for three centuries before the Brother's War. He was worshiped by many different catfolk on Dominaria over the years.

Nine Titans

Windgrace was one of the eight other planeswalkers Urza recruited for the war with Phyrexia. When Urza went mad and killed Taysir, Windgrace took the fallen planeswalker's heart and put it next to his own. Windgrace and the other four remaining titans went through with the plan by manually activating the soul bombs, gutting the plane complately. Windgrace survived the Phyrexian Invasion and became a leader and guardian of Urborg.

Time Spiral crisis

During the Time Spiral crisis, Windgrace had control over the zone's slivers and other monstrosities, which he commanded to destroy anyone and anything even remotely related to artifice. During the events of Planar Chaos, Windgrace put his mark on Venser, to control him anytime, but the Weaver King removed it so that he could control Venser without getting noticed by the ancient planeswalker. Later he talked to Freyalise about the time rifts and he was grieved when he heard of her death. After Teferi and Karn's insistence, he attempted to seal the time rift in Urborg located where the Rathi Stronghold had overlaid to prevent a mass of Phyrexians from pouring in. As the rift began to fold in on itself under Windgrace's magic, it sucked the life essence from him. As the rift vanished from existence, so too did Lord Windgrace.

Urborg's protector.

Before facing the rift, he performed a spell to fuse his spirit to Urborg and watch over it.

Legacy

Long after Windgrace's sacrifice, his followers remain on Urborg, sabotaging the Cabal's artifacts. Aryel is from Urborg and trained with the panther-folk, bearing Windgrace's legacy.

With the return of the Phyrexians, Windgrace's magic stirred, ready to protect Urborg once more.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Tapestries - What's in a Name?	Michael A. Stackpole & Kathy Ice, ed.	July 1995	N/A	Dominaria	Kyyrao Grrenmw, Grover, Loot Niptil, Corsen Mon Duur, Anaytha, Sular, Malkean Feorr, Shinra, Windgrace (mentioned), Dreadfang
Distant Planes - Insufficient Evidence	Michael A. Stackpole & Kathy Ice, ed.	June 1996	N/A	Dominaria	Grover, Loot Niptil, Sopti Borth, Kyyrao Grrenmw, Windgrace (mentioned), Malkean Feorr, Vlorik, N'ciczli, Haspian Chastoril
Prelude to War - Journeying Angel	Art Holcomb	Unreleased	N/A	Dominaria	Ravidel, Windgrace, Terrent Amese (mentioned)
Born to Greatness part 1	J. Robert King	September 1998	Mirage	Dominaria	Crovax, Windgrace, Jolav, Selenia, Tevon, Hixton
Invasion	J. Robert King	October 2000	Invasion	Dominaria, Rath, Ulgrotha	Gerrard Capashen, Hanna, Sisay, Karn, Orim, Tahngarth, Squee, Dabis, Fewsteem, Urza, Barrin, Raddeus Capashen, Tsabo Tavoc, Leda Capashen, Multani, Gaea, Teferi, Benbow, Thaddeus, Agnate, Crovax (mentioned), Eladamri, Takara en-Dal, Sivvi en-Vec, Fhedusil, Molimo, Rhammidarigaaz, Jhoira, Taysir, Daria, Freyalise, Parcher (mentioned), Kristina of the Woods, Bo Levar, Guff, Tevesh Szat, Windgrace
Planeshift	J. Robert King	February 2001	Planeshift	Dominaria, Phyrexia Rath	Multani, Gaea, Karn, Urza, Agnate, Eladamri, Sivvi en-Vec, Rhammidarigaaz, Gerrard Capashen, Tahngarth, Sisay, Squee, Tsabo Tavoc, Crovax, Freyalise, Dalwyri, Gemath, Dalepoc, Allisor, Tevesh Szat, Themeus, Orim, Guff, Bo Levar, Kristina of the Woods, Taysir, Daria, Windgrace, Dralnu, Astor, Olvresk, Tajamin, Nemata, Rith, Rokun, Treva, Grizzlegom, Greven il-Vec, Dromar, Ertai, Stokken, Lairsen, Rilgesh, Selenia, Crosis, Yawgmoth, Mishra, Hanna
Apocalypse	J. Robert King	June 2001	Apocalypse	Phyrexia, Dominaria, Mercadia	Yawgmoth, Urza, Gerrard Capashen, Hanna, Karn, Sisay, Tahngarth, Multani, Orim, Eladamri, Sivvi en-Vec, Grizzlegom, Windgrace, Freyalise, Bo Levar, Guff, Nadeen Dormet, Nemata, Gaea, Crovax, Ertai, Squee, Selenia, Famebraught, Raddeus Capashen, Leda Capashen, Rhammidarigaaz, Rayne, Barrin, Cho-Manno (mentioned)
Time Spiral	Scott McGough	September 2006	Time Spiral	Dominaria	Teferi, Jhoira, Freyalise, Radha, Venser, Windgrace, Nicol Bolas
Planar Chaos	Scott McGough	January 2007	Planar Chaos	Dominaria	Teferi, Jhoira, Corus, Venser, Windgrace, Jodah, Weaver King, Freyalise, Radha, Karn, Barrin, Jeska
The Brothers' War - Chapter 1: Stronghold	Reinhardt Suarez	2022-10-21	The Brothers' War	Dominaria	Teferi, Jodah, Elspeth, Kaya, Vivien, Saheeli, Jace (mentioned), Chandra (mentioned), Koth (mentioned), Elesh Norn (mentioned), Urabrask (mentioned), Lyra Dawnbringer (mentioned), Windgrace (mentioned), Wrenn, Seven

Planeswalkers met

• Bo Levar
• Daria
• Freyalise
• Guff
• Kristina
• Karn
• Taysir
• Teferi
• Tevesh Szat
• Urza
• Venser

Planes visited

• Dominaria
• Phyrexia

Gallery

• 
  “Phyrexia is an unforgiving place, and I am an angry lord in an unforgiving mood.”
• 
  Windgrace vs a phyrexian.
• 
  Windgrace art from the Planeshift novel

In-game references

Represented in:

• Lord Windgrace
• Soul of Windgrace

Associated cards:

• Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
• Windgrace Acolyte
• Windgrace's Judgment

Depicted in:

• Divine Light
• False Dawn
• Hobble
• Illuminate
• Implode
• Planeswalker's Fury
• The Mending of Dominaria
• Urza Assembles the Titans

Quoted or referred to:

• Drag to the Bottom
• Fell Mire
• Fell the Profane
• Rampant Growth (Double Masters 2022, #371)
• Shadow Prophecy
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

External links

• Magic Arcana (September 3, 2009). "Who's That Planeswalker?". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29.