PDH(WU) - BirdHorse Permission Idiocy

Pauper EDH* WU (Azorius)

Alkadron

Counterspell (34)

• 1x Daze
• 1x Foil
• 1x Blacksmith's Skill
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Emerge Unscathed
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Intervene
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stave Off
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x You See a Guard Approach
• 1x Alexi's Cloak
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Benevolent Blessing
• 1x Cho-Manno's Blessing
• 1x Confound
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Dispersal Shield
• 1x Flash Counter
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Jaded Response
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Lofty Denial
• 1x Logic Knot
• 1x Lose Focus
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Prohibit
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Spell Rupture

Draw (16)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Gush
• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Witching Well
• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Cartouche of Knowledge
• 1x Curate
• 1x Deliberate
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Winged Words

Land (37)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Glacial Floodplain
• 19x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 8x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Snow-Covered Island

Get rekt, meta (1)

• 1x Shield of Duty and Reason

Commanders (2)

Control (10)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Kasmina's Transmutation
• 1x Reprobation
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Forsake the Worldly

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Maybeboard

Other (9)

• 1x Peek
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Faerie Trickery
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Pentarch Ward
• 1x Tragic Lesson
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Rewind

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On one level, the idea of the BirdHorse Permission deck really intrigues me. The win condition for this deck is not fast, but completely self-contained in the Command Zone. If you resolve The Bird on turn two and then resolve The Horse on turn three, you're swinging for increasingly large numbers right out the gate. Eisor makes them immune to removal in those early turns, so you've got a bit of time to accumulate counters and get out of Pestilence and Crypt Rats range before you have to get to start counterspelling the spot removal that folks are paying an enormous amount of mana for. Your other counterspells are for stopping combos. There's not much else to do with the deck: keep your mana up for counterspells and then spend it on draw spells at EoT.

The appeal here is, again, that the win condition is extremely reliable, since it's only two pieces and they both live in the command zone for only two mana each. This means I can dedicate the entire rest of the deck to playing control and counterspells.

... which is also the terrible part of this deck. I hate control and counterspells.

I'll probably file this one under "things I think will work but am unenthusiastic about trying."

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.57
Tokens	Shapeshifter 1/1 C
Folders	Dave's Pauper EDH, PDH