BIRD BEATDOWN (Standard MTG Deck)

BIRD BEATDOWN

Standard Angels Stompy Tempo Weenie WU (Azorius)

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4x Sky Tether

Extremely low to the ground aggro/tempo deck with 20 one drops based around maximising the power of three powerful cards.

Sephara, Sky's Blade, Skycat Sovereign and Rally of Wings.

These cards are all much better with lots of one drop flyers. The mistake most people make is adding expensive cards to this deck to add card draw or 'better creatures'. Doing this dilutes the decks capacity for the winning sequence of four one drops into Sephara or Rally of Wings for an early win. You'll never win the long game and by playing expensive cards you just give an opponent time to neutralise the narrow attack angle this deck runs at. The only cards you really care about keeping alive are Sephara and Skycat Sovereign, hence the three copies of God's Willing to blank removal in a tempo-positive way.

Hushbringer isn't in the maindeck not just because of its cost but because giving an opponent a free resolved Uro is a huge downside. The benefit of stopping agent of treachery isn't terribly important because this deck usually wins or loses before that point is reached anyway.

The deck is soft to Sweepers, specifically Deafening Clarion. This is sorcery speed so you can play around by not overextending until you're able to play a Sephara or they've taken enough damage that they have to use it. The knack is knowing when to play around a card and when to go all in. Other sweepers like Flame Sweet can be pseudo-countered by casting Rally of Wings. There's no taplands in this deck, you need all your mana immediately. If you don't get the right lands/an aggressive start just mulligan aggressively until you do.

Sideboarding is straightforward. Only the cycling decks and mono red can outrace you. Red has no cards that can deal with Cerulean Drake, game feels favoured pre and post sideboarding. Against cycling Tithe Taker taxes their cycling costs and Sky Tether can totally neutralise an early fox for just one white mana.

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v3 — May 29, 2020

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I've changed my mind on Hushbringer in this deck. It's awful against Titans but since it's one of the most expensive creatures in the deck you can just play it out last against decks you think are going to run Uro. They tend to play it early since it's a ramp spell, giving you the green light to cast it and then at least they'll get no Enter The Battlefield effect from casting it from the graveyard.. This is the worst case scenario, in practice it passively hoses a huge number of creatures and strategies whilst being cheap enough to synergise with the overall strategy of the critical mass of flying creatures into Sephara/Rally of Wings/Skycat Sovereign.

I had low expectations of Hanged Executioner but he's never been very good. He's best when rebuilding a board after a sweeper but honestly those games are lost at that point anyway. I've used the activated removal ability maybe once or twice in 50+ matches.

-4 Hanged Exectutioner +4 Hushbringer

v2 — May 23, 2020

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Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 7 Rares 15 - 8 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.79
Tokens	Cat Bird 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB
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