Flock Together - Feather, the Redeemed EDH

Commander / EDH* Aggro Infinite Combo RW (Boros) Storm Tokens

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Instant (26)

• 1x Acrobatic Maneuver
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Guided Strike
• 1x Justiciar's Portal
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Long Road Home
• 1x Magnetic Theft
• 1x Otherworldly Journey
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Psychotic Fury
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rally the Righteous
• 1x Samut's Sprint
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sheltering Light
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Wear / Tear

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Vandalblast

Creature (20)

• 1x Akroan Conscriptor
• 1x Akroan Crusader
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Duergar Hedge-Mage
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Flickerwisp
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Mirrorwing Dragon
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Phalanx Leader
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Zada, Hedron Grinder
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 9x Mountain
• 11x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Scroll of the Masters
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Veilstone Amulet

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Smothering Tithe

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Maybeboard

Artifact (8)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Leering Emblem
• 1x Livewire Lash
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Splinter Twin

Creature (7)

• 1x Anax and Cymede
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Labyrinth Champion

Land (1)

• 1x Temple of Triumph

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Instant (2)

• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Strength of Arms

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DECK IS CURRENTLY A PROTOTYPE, PLEASE COMMENT AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK

At Feather’s command, squadrons of battle angels swarmed out of the Parhelion II, unsheathing blades made of molten dawn. - Sunblade Angel

Feather the Redeemed is an incredibly powerful Angel that is revitalizing Boros in commander. For only 3 CMC, it essentially provides free Buyback for any spell that targets a creature you control.

Although Feather has many possible variants, this deck is a spellslinging variant, utilizing various flicker effects along with Zada, Hedron Grinder and other cards to benefit from frequently casting cantrips.

Featured Cards

Cards featured in the deck, along with justification for their inclusion.

Spells

• Spawning Breath creates large numbers of tokens when used with Zada, Hedron Grinder . Your new tokens can be protected with Bandage , which itself draws you lots of cards.
• Grapeshot can deal a lot of damage for a low cost, and if you make the main copy target one of your creatures, you can recur it while dealing the rest of the damage as you like to remove threats or burn opponents.
• Magnetic Theft lets you re-equip Sunforger on your opponents' turns for cheap, then cast instants from your deck for only 3 Mana total, once per turn. You can also use this to steal your opponents' equipment (although they can easily spend the cost to re-equip, they can only do so on their turn.)

Creatures

• Zada, Hedron Grinder and Mirrorwing Dragon have similar, yet powerful duplicating effects, that allow you to multiply the power of your spells. Any buffs, protection, or card draw will be given to all of your creatures.
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker has a variety
• Felidar Guardian and Flickerwisp are notable in that they can be used in combination with flicker instants to protect non-creature permanents such as Sunforger .
• Restoration Angel can flicker allied creatures to protect them the same way as Felidar Guardian and Flickerwisp can. Although it can't protect non-Creature permanents, it does combo with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker .
• Psychosis Crawler provides a life drain win condition through repeatedly casting cantrips.
• Monastery Mentor creates lots of tokens when we cast lots of spells, and the tokens pump themselves up! And magic happens when Zada is on the board too!
• Combo: Akroan Conscriptor to steal opponent's creatures, then flicker them to keep them permanently, or cast Path to Exile to exile the creature while getting the ramp for yourself.

Artifacts

• Aetherflux Reservoir provides an alternate win condition through Storm and slinging spells. Even if it's not used to win, the life provided is still useful.
• Sunforger is an incredibly powerful tutoring ability, allowing you to find the spells you need for only 5 mana. If the spell that was retrieved and cast targets a creature you control, Feather's effect will trigger. Combined with Magnetic Theft , this can be made 3 mana and instant speed.
• Swiftfoot Boots provides protection for Feather, and lets us save our flickers for other troops.
• Thought Vessel allows for no limit to hand size, for full exploitation of cheap cantrips. It also provides additional mana.
• Boros Signet , Coldsteel Heart , Fellwar Stone , Fire Diamond , Marble Diamond , Mind Stone , Sol Ring , and Wayfarer's Bauble also act as mana rocks.
• Unwinding Clock allows for reuse of mana rocks on multiple turns. Potentially replaced/augmented with Paradox Engine?
• Phyrexian Altar lets us use the extra tokens we produce for mana to cast more spells, which will produce more tokens. It also produces infinite mana with Reveillark and Karmic Guide .
• Skullclamp provides another way to exploit tokens, this time with card draw.
• Sword of the Animist provides ramp, but in the form of equipment that needs to be attached to a troop, probably Feather due to her evasion. The payoff with this troop is great though.
• Veilstone Amulet is another source of protection, with a one-time mana investment allowing the cantrip we cast every turn to protect our board.
• Scroll of the Master pushes the Voltron route; you can deal lethal commander damage with 8 counters and a Psychotic Fury .

Enchantments

• Impact Tremors gives us extra burn whenever we create tokens, and can help us build a sneaky infinite combo with Felidar Guardian or Dualcaster Mage .
• Smothering Tithe is either an everflowing source of ramp and colored mana, or a tax on each of our opponent's draws. Either way, it's like a white Rhystic Study. Are you going to pay the 2?

Lands

• A good quantity of basic lands, with slightly fewer Mountain than Plains to emphasize White in hopes of casting the commander earlier. Lots of basics is important for a low CMC deck, with lots of cards to fetch basics.
• Some consistent dual lands in Battlefield Forge , Boros Garrison , Clifftop Retreat , Command Tower , Exotic Orchard , Inspiring Vantage , Rugged Prairie , Sacred Foundry . No alpha duals or fetches, I'm not rich.
• Mistveil Plains provides a method to recur spells that can't be used with Feather, to later be retrieved with Sunforger .
• Reliquary Tower allows for no limit to hand size, for full exploitation of cheap cantrips.
• Buried Ruin also provides recursion, this time for artifacts.
• Ghost Quarter provides a source of utility removal.
• Great Tower and Ancient Den are artifacts, allowing them to be untapped by Unwinding Clock .

Rulings and Notes

• Feather, the Redeemed returns the card at the next end step, not your end step. This means that with, say, Expedite , you can cast and recur it on each of your opponents turns; if you have 3 opponents, this means 4 extra cards per round.
• If a spell or ability is targeting a specific permanent, and that permanent is flickered at instant speed, that spell or ability is countered upon resolution.
• If a creature is flickered, it will be removed from combat; any creatures it was blocking are still blocked, but it won't deal or receive combat damage, and it is no longer an attacking creature or blocking creature.
• Casting a spell to flicker Feather will allow you keep the spell, since Feather is on the battlefield as it is cast.
• If a token is exiled, say by a flicker effect, it ceases to exist and cannot return to the battlefield.
• Effects that flicker remove counters, Auras, and Equipment, and retrigger "enter the battlefield" abilities.
• Note that flickering a creature you have gained temporary control of will grant permanent control of it.
• Flicker effects that return to play immediately do not counter effects that do not target the creature, such as sacrifice or wrath effects.
• If an X spell is cast without paying its mana cost, X is 0.
• The abilities of Zada, Hedron Grinder and Mirrorwing Dragon create copies that immediately enter the stack. Copies are not cast; thus, the abilities of Aetherflux Reservoir , Guttersnipe , Monastery Mentor , and the like trigger only once despite many spells being targeted, and Akroan Conscriptor does not trigger if it is targeted with a spell created by Zada or Mirrorwing. Copies also don't increase your Storm count, sorry Grapeshot .
• Spells that are copied from exile (like Isochron Scepter ) are cast when they are first put onto the stack; if the spell targets Zada, more copies will be made, but those copies were made from a spell that was already on the stack, so they don't count as cast.
• Mirrorwing's effects are symmetrical; if an opponent targets Mirrorwing with removal, it will copy that removal for each creature the opponent controls, and if the opponent buffs Mirrorwing, Mirrorwing will buff all the opponent's creatures.
• Acrobatic Maneuver , Cloudshift , Felidar Guardian , Justicar's Portal, and Restoration Angel return cards to the battlefield immediately. Flickerwisp , Eerie Interlude , Long Road Home , and Otherworldly Journey return cards to the battlefield at the end of the turn. The latter group of cards can protect against multiple effects.

Wincons

This deck has a variety of means with which it wins the game. The primary goal is to exploit Feather's spell for value and card draw, although there are several infinite combos

• Controlling opponents and winning with Commander damage ( Psychotic Fury deals double damage, Sunforger makes opponents a 3-shot kill, and Scroll of the Master helps boost stats).
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts or Felidar Guardian or Restoration Angel
• Zada, Hedron Grinder or Mirrorwing Dragon + Spawning Breath + Bandage to create large amounts of mana, then a Cantrip + Psychosis Crawler to drain opponents.
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Burning players with Grapeshot every turn after casting a bunch of spells.
• Twinflame + Dualcaster Mage to create infinite Dualcaster Mages with Haste.
• Cloudshift + Dualcaster Mage + Impact Tremors
• Felidar Guardian + Restoration Angel + Impact Tremors

Maybeboard

Here are some potential powerful additions that are being considered for the deck.

• Godo, Bandit Warlord can be played to fetch Helm of the Host , then flickered to fetch Hammer of Nazan or Sunforger into Magnetic Theft to win the game.
• Crimson Wisps is essentially a functional reprint of Expedite .
• Anax and Cymede
• Seize the Day allows you attack again, which is great if you used Psychotic Fury on Feather, or have Paradox Engine available to untap all your creatures instead of just one.
• Splinter Twin provides redundancy for the Zealous Conscripts//Kiki-Jiki combo.
• Godo, Bandit Warlord can tutor up equipment, repeat combat steps, and goes infinite with Helm of the Host .
• Iroas, God of Victory provides an interesting and powerful buff to attacking creatures, and is itself a powerful creature for a low cost.

Moneyboard

These cards have been cut because I'm not made of money, I'm made of flesh, and in this country it's illegal to sell your organs so I guess I have to stick to building on a budget.

• Imperial Recruiter can tutor for many powerful creatures, and using it to fetch Felidar Guardian lets you flicker Recruiter to tutor for the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker combo.
• Recruiter of the Guard provides a similar function to the Imperial Recruiter, and if you need something with higher toughness, you can just fetch Imperial Recruiter, then cast that to get what you need.
• Stoneforge Mystic can tutor for Sunforger and other useful equipment.
• Land Tax can provide additional ramp if needed.
• Mana Crypt can provide a powerful boost of mana.
• Tithe provides a tutor for additional land, and it can be fetched with Sunforger.
• Enlightened Tutor provides the ability to tutor for Sunforger or any of our other artifacts.
• Paradox Engine untaps your mana rocks whenever you cast a cantrip!
• Sword of Feast and Famine is crazy overpowered.
• Chrome Mox costs card advantage (which this deck has in droves anyway) and gives you free mana that works with Paradox Engine.
• Command Beacon can help retrieve Feather if she gets countered repeatedly.
• Sneak Attack can put creatures in play at instant speed; if the creatures are then flickered, they
• Mox Amber provides additional mana for cantrips, that works with Unwinding Clock and Paradox Engine. Plus, it's free!

Cuts

These are cards that are no longer considered for the deck.

• Chromatic Lantern : Mana fixing isn't really needed given the deck is only two colors, and it competes with Feather in the important 3 CMC slot.
• Sun Titan , although synergistic with flicker effects, has too high of a CMC for this deck, which should run "low to the ground".
• Angel of Serenity , although synergistic with flicker effects and providing great removal, has too high of a CMC for this deck, which should run "low to the ground".
• Temur Battle Rage is not as good as Psychotic Fury since it is not a cantrip.
• Ephemeral Shields sucks compared to Sheltering Light .
• Balduvian Rage is terrible when it's not being cast on Zada, Hedron Grinder
• Ajani's Presence , I already have enough protection in the deck.
• Commander's Sphere , we don't want to spend turn 3 playing a mana rock, we want our commander out!
• Blessed Breath , Hundred-Talon Strike , and Quiet Purity were going to be part of a Desperate Ritual Arcane synergy, but there were too few useful Arcane spells.
• Lightning Greaves ' Shroud has anti-synergy with our deck's strategy.
• Balefire Liege has too high of a CMC for the effect it provides, in my opinion. It's essentially a Guttersnipe.
• Reveillark and Karmic Guide provide creature recursion, and additionally can produce infinite mana with Phyrexian Altar , but they push up the CMC of the deck.
• Liberate , although helpful, has strictly better alternatives,
• Defiant Strike , although a great cantrip, is an objectively worse Guided Strike , and I have enough cantrips.
• Spark of Creativity , although a cool cantrip, is too weak in most situations.
• Akroan Crusader and Vanguard of Brimaz , while cool, require being specifically targeted to be useful.
• Aurelia's Fury is expensive enough mana-wise that it'd be better to spend the mana on other things.
• Psychosis Crawler , Emrakul's Hatcher , and Spawning Breath were part of a package to create a lot of tokens and then use them to burn the opponent through targeting Mirrorwing with cantrips, based on a post I saw on Reddit. However, these cards have a high CMC and look to be quite bad as individual cards.
• After evaluating my list of instants, I found the vast majority of my targeted spells are white, and thus Runaway Steam-Kin gets relatively little value.
• Wayfarer's Bauble , Marble Diamond , and Fire Diamond aren't particularly good mana rocks, and the deck has enough ramp that these cards couldn't make the cut in terms of deck space.

Sources

• https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/multiplayer-commander-decklists/808309-war-feather-the-redeemed-legions-of-a-feather

• https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/bgatrs/oops_decked_myself_with_feather_in_less_than_2/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/bhglk4/looking_for_feather_deck_advise/

Please give any appropriate constructive feedback.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	108
Avg. CMC	2.59
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Monk 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 R, Treasure