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: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.The Wind Crystal supports white decks through cheaper spells, larger life gains, and a team-wide combat ability. White spells cost one generic mana less, and each life-gain event for you is doubled. Its six-mana tap ability gives your creatures flying and lifelink for the turn, allowing a developed board to attack through ground blockers while restoring a substantial amount of life.
Soul Warden and similar effects provide repeated life-gain events that the Crystal increases. Ajani's Pridemate receives one trigger per event rather than one per life gained, so doubling the amount does not automatically double its counters. Cards that care about the amount gained, or thresholds reached during a turn, can benefit differently and deserve separate consideration when building the deck.
Token strategies can use the activated ability to turn several grounded creatures into evasive lifelink attackers. The Crystal's own replacement effect then doubles the life you gain from their damage. That makes it a useful late-game outlet in a deck already producing a wide board, though six mana and a tap is too expensive to treat as an early defensive plan.
The cost reduction affects generic mana only, so a white spell containing no generic requirement is not made cheaper. Include enough qualifying spells and dependable life-gain sources to use the passive abilities regularly. The card is strongest when those abilities advance your normal game plan before you ever need to activate it.
