Birds of Paradise
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Oldschool 93/94 Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Birds of Paradise

Creature — Bird

Flying

: Add one mana of any colour.

kamarupa on Cloaked Whispers

1 week ago

I love the concept of this deck, but it is def not going to be easy to make it work well. You have some obvious needs in 1) getting the combo pieces 2) having enough mana to cast them all before your opponent stops you 3) having room for defense and removal and 4) making sure your cloaked creatures die.

1) You not only need have some way of assembling your combo, you also need a way to put a spell on top of your library. I have to do this with my deck Cover Girl. The only spells I could find that made sense in that deck were: Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Brainstone, and Scheming Symmetry. I suggest running 2x of each of the first. Scheming Symmetry is a pretty big risk, so I advise against that here. The upshot of Jace is that you can cycle through your library 3 cards at a time, so you not only get to control your top card, you also get to filter for what you need.

2) Provided you employ some added filtering with Jace and Brainstone, I think you can remove some of your extra threats. This will allow for a little ramp. I guess I'd probably go with Birds of Paradise unless you're worried it will get bolted for being a bird. Then I'd probably go with a land enchantment like Fertile Ground. I think with the high-ish cost of your combo pieces, a little ramp is going to be helpful in creating a consistency in speed. (not to be fast, just to be as fast as it can be more reliably)

3) It occurs to me that cloaked spells could be blockers IF you both don't have all the combo pieces in place AND you whiffed with Hide in Plain Sight. Those are somewhat narrow conditions, so it's probably best not rely on that. I see you have room for 35 more cards, approx 24 of which will probably be lands, so I'll have to wait and see how much room you have for more defense and removal, but I think you have to include Bone Splinters. It's not as fast as I'd like but it pulls double duty in kicking off the final step in your combo and it does it for 1 MV instead of 3 like Start / Finish. I'd probably throw in 1x Fog, too. And Assassin's Trophy and Abrupt Decay would be excellent additions to the mainboard and sideboard. I'd probably go 4xBone Splinters, 2xAssassin's Trophy, 1xAbrupt Decay in the main and then extra of the instants in the sideboard.

4) Bone Splinters helps make sure you creatures die, but a board wipe like Killing Wave would probably be useful as well late game.

YStar27 on can i activate Reconnaissance on …

2 weeks ago

if i attack with a Birds of Paradise can i activate Reconnaissance on it multiple times and then tap Birds of Paradise before each one resolves and make infinite mana?

thanks

TMMadsen on Wolves of Armageddon

2 weeks ago

What do you think about possiably adding Weaver of Blossoms  Flip to the deck and cutting down or out lambholt elder?

I think Weaver of Blossoms  Flip is a bit costly on the mana-side. With Birds of Paradise, Scorned Villager  Flip and Krallenhorde Howler  Flip I'm doing pretty good for mana, so adding another mana-producer might be over the top. Lambholt Elder  Flip packs quite a punch, and lets me draw cards which is awesome. I think, I'll try experimenting with replacing Birds of Paradise instead. They're missing the werewolf subtype, but they contibute with a lot of speed. The Weaver of Blossoms  Flip however can be used in combat. Thank you for pointing me to this card!

Branchloft Pathway  Flip for mana versitility.

I recently ordered a playset of Sunpetal Grove to improve mana versitility. I looked at Branchloft Pathway  Flip, but they're quite costly where I live, and decided to go with Sunpetal Grove instead.

Thank you for the feedback.

Caerwyn on How Can I Put Ziatora, …

1 month ago

Frenzied Tilling is a terrible card. Five mana to destroy one land and get one tapped basic? Yikes.

Why don’t you start with the basics before doing anything weird. Cultivate gets you one untapped land, possibly a second if you do not have a land to play for turn, basically making it cost one or two mana. You have your classic dorks, like Birds of Paradise. Delighted Halfling would be particularly good for you, given your high prevalence of legendary cards. You could cut your three-mana rocks and go with the many two-mana options available.

Ramp should not be fancy - it should be efficient. You want to play it early so you can start playing big things faster - that means you really want to focus on mana ramp which costs one or two mana (or functionally costs one or two mana because it gives you untapped lands).

euqinU on Improve my Magus Lucea Kane …

1 month ago

This is my currently only one deck, I plan to add a Birds of Paradise Poison Dart Frog Delighted Halfling but I don't know if I have enough. Lucea Kane X-Spells

NV_1980 on 5 Paths, Infinite Destinations.

5 months ago

In its current state, this deck has a problem: its average CMC is too high for its mana-fixing/ramping/rock or dork capabilities. I know this is supposed to be fixed by casting Jodah, but during play-testing on average this took me at least 4 turns; usually 5 or 6. I think your best bet in solving this would be to include some cheap-to-cast mana dorks like Birds of Paradise or Bloom Tender and maybe some more ramp spells.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Replace Arcane Signet …

5 months ago

I have a copy of Arcane Signet in nearly all of my EDH decks, but several of my EDH decks, most notably my Chulane deck and my Ghired deck, have a strong emphasis on creatures, so I am contemplating replacing the signet in those decks with a mana dork (i.e., a creature that generates mana), most likely Birds of Paradise, but I would like to ask everyone else here for advice on that subject.

What does everyone else say about this? Should I replace Arcane Signet in some of my EDH decks with a mana dork?

Darb_the_Bard on Buttercup: Princess Bride

5 months ago

I think The World Tree would be a fine include. We're obviously not using its ability, and since it comes into play tapped it's worse than a basic forest until we play our 6th land. I think I normally have all 5 colors available by the time I get my 6th land, so I don't know how helpful this is. Obviously, there will be some games where we are missing colors and we would be happy to see this. And we are relying on creatures to produce some of our colored mana (most notably with Jegantha, but also Birds of Paradise, Ornithopter of Paradise, and others), so a board wipe could also really hurt our ability to hit all the colored pips we need. For now, I don't want to pay $3 or $4 for a tapped land. However, I could see myself putting this card in later if, after playing it against actual opponents, I find it difficult to create all my colors. Again, from my playtesting I find I normally have all the colors, but I also don't have opponents messing with my stuff...

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