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This is a trial run to see if this idea works (proliferate lots of counters) in EDH. Feedback needed and welcome.
The deck is based primarily around fliers - the enemies deck will have trouble keeping up with them all, especially after Magus of the Moat and Kangee hit the board.
The second idea is proliferation. The deck may be slow off the mark to begin with - but once Kangee hits the field with a feather counter - all the birds get +1/+1. Proliferate this up, along with the +1/+1 counters generated from Cathars' Crusade , Brace for Impact and Ajani Goldmane AND the feather counters on cards such as Soulcatchers' Aerie , and your birds with be growing in power quicker than your opponent can keep up. This isn't even to mention Aven Mimeomancer - who can put even more feather counters on Kangee!
The final "theme" in the deck are the control spells - these are to help your deck get off the ground (pun intended). The deck is slow at the start - but cards such as Dissipation Field and Volition Reins help you set the record straight. This stalling will help you get your counters on your creatures and prepare Calciform Pools in order to cast Kangee or Mikaeus, the Lunarch with the maximum possible counters!
All the updates from the comments have been done (see below) and the following changes have been put in for the Return to Ravnica set:
-1 Island
+1 Azorius Guildgate
-1 Plains
+1 Hallowed Fountain
The following has also been done provisionally:
-1 Journeyers Kite
+1 Azorius Keyrune
To see how it works. The kite, although useful, doesn't seem to help as much as I would like it to. We will see.
Opinions on adding Azor's Elocutors ? With the proliferate, could add a (one card) win con,
Following changes have been made:Aven Squire and the two morph birds (can't remember both their names, but Aven Liberator was one) have been dropped, and replaced with Gilded Lotus , Temporal Mastery and Coat of Arms . I felt this was enough of a tribal to warrant a coat of arms, and if it comes across a token deck/another tribal it can be side-boarded for something. Gilded Lotus is more mana, which is nice for the high cost cards in the deck, and Mastery is Mastery. Also, I can't afford a Time Stretch .
Dovescape was replaced with Adarkar Wastes , I need the land AND, after playing a game, realized to my horror that Kangee was making all his birds bigger too. It ended up in a "I can cast the most spells" war and I lost. Goodbye Dovescape, to the sideboard with you.
Debate now is whether Windbrisk Raptor should replace True Conviction . Thoughts?
Mana Leak was changed to Volition Reins : mana leak is not a good enough counter spell in EDH except if it is played in the first 3 turns. Volition Reins allows me to take control of their fliers, locking them down even more, or one of their nice planeswalkers. Plus, I had it in foil.
Seachrome Coast was changed to Journeyer's Kite : Much debate at the moment whether Mystic Gate should be replaced with Seachrome Coast. (Thoughts?) Either way, I took Coast out and replaced it with a land fetcher that not only is nice in general, adds nice flavour to the deck.
Reliquary Tower was put in, replacing a Plains : Pretty much need a hand increaser in the deck, or some cards will get rid of too many of my cards during cleanup.
Suntail Hawk was replaced with Swans of Bryn Argoll : SWANS! Also, suntail hawk felt like a weak addition to my deck, even with the low mana cost. Swans are an untouchable (almost) which benefits from my upgrades so much more.
Clone was replaced with Stormscape Familiar : Clone has been put aside, despite good general removal and being able to copy my better birds, for the familiar - which helps me cast the more expensive spells like Avacyn and Elesh Norn for slightly cheaper. Helps in the early game too due to its low CMC.
Brace for Impact is surprisingly useful - both for the general and the other multi-coloured creatures I have. It can generate a lot of counters which improve my power in the air by a lot.
I am looking into getting a Coalition Relic , and using it to replace one of the basic lands.
Sol Ring would be so useful, but until I get one I am not going to think about putting it in. They are hard to get hold of...
you need Storm Crow my friend.
Some maybe's: Battle Screech , Commander Eesha , Chromatic Lantern
card:Urza's Incubator might be useful for casting birds and re-casting Kangee (If you want to link Urza's Incubator, by the way, you need a - in place of the apostrophe. That just about drove me crazy, trying to figure out how I was mispelling it.)
Distant Melody , Shared Triumph .
Thanks everyone!
Aven Mindcensor is going in at some point, as is Shared Triumph .
Distant Melody is so tempting to put in, the card advantage would be so amazing to have. card:Urza's Incubator is defintely going in, I didn't even know about the card! I would probably put it in with Distant Melody .
I will probably take out Rewind . However nice it is in foil...
What else should be taken out for these cards?
Also, Storm Crow is not worth putting in tthe deck when so many other cards are in. Sideboarded, just in case. It was in the deck, a while ago. It got taken out for Norn.
Chromatic Lantern is going in. Commander Eesha will go in after I have made all other changes, if I find room for him. Same with Battle Screech .
I did playtest it with that combo for a while, but they needed to come out together and with no real draw engine (and no plans to put one in, except for Distant Melody ) they never came out together very often.
Dovescape by itself, from playtesting, is bad in this deck, as it gives them birds that are powered up. If they have more spells to throw away, they win very quickly. It also gives them creatures that can get over Moat effects.
Name like a boss
"cause everybody's heard that the bird is the word.
| Date added | 11 months |
| Last updated | 7 months |
| Legal formats | None |
| Sets | Return to Ravnica, Magic 2013, Planechase 2012 Edition, Avacyn Restored , Innistrad, MTG: Commander, New Phyrexia, Mirrodin Besieged, Scars of Mirrodin, 2011 Core Set, Archenemy, Rise of the Eldrazi, Worldwake, Zendikar, 2010 Core Set, Alara Reborn, Shadowmoor, Morningtide, Lorwyn, Tenth Edition, Future Sight, Time Spiral, Time Spiral "Timeshifted", Coldsnap, Dissension, Darksteel, Legions, Onslaught, Judgment, Odyssey, Seventh Edition, Invasion, Tempest, Homelands |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 3.76 |
| Top rank | #22 on 2012-08-13 |
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alexsmith21 says...
Personally I like True Conviction over Windbrisk Raptor . Having things on legs is nice, but in EDH, from my experience creature removal is more prevalent than enchantment removal.
Mystic Gate is a better land than any of the scars duals just because in EDH there is a slim chance in a 100 card deck that you'll have them out without being tapped. Slows down the game.
Since its hard to ramp in U/W, I'd suggest some more mana artifacts like Coalition Relic or Sol Ring .
I'd also think about dropping Brace for Impact , whic i assume is used on your general. Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves offers better protection
October 4, 2012 12:56 p.m.