Birds of Paradise
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Oldschool 93/94 Legal
Planar Constructed 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.

NV_1980 on The Ur-timate Dragon Tribal

2 weeks ago

This looks pretty good Snekattack. Not sure if you're aware, but Mana Crypt was recently banned from the format, so maybe replace it with another cheap mana rock or a Birds of Paradise. It could also be replaced with Amulet of Vigor, to ensure even your triomes enter untapped. Or just leave Crypt in; not all metas care about the cards banned for EDH.

Considering the budget for this deck, I wonder why none of the ancient dragons made it in. Ancient Copper Dragon and Ancient Silver Dragon are insanely good; especially when you're copying their effects with cards like Roaming Throne. Ancient Copper also synergizes well with Hellkite Charger (just like Old Gnawbone; providing potential fuel for each new attack with each attack.

The new 'dragon storm' cards from the new Tarkir set, also have great potential in Dragon-tribal. They allow for great (often repeatable) benefit, for very fair mana costs. Interested to know what you think of these and whether they would fit your deck.

Have fun with the deck!

BadBrains on rienne

3 weeks ago

Halana and Alena, Partners

Blade Historian

Karametra, God of Harvests *f-etch*

Elvish Hexhunter

Kogla and Yidaro

Radha, Heart of Keld

Nature's Lore + Three Visits + Jetmir's Garden required

Sneak Attack

Hunting Grounds

Avacyn's Pilgrim

Birds of Paradise

Brazen Upstart

Elvish Piper

Loxodon Hierarch

Torsten, Founder of Benalia

Monster Manual

Greater Good

Balefire Liege

Boartusk Liege

Wilt-Leaf Liege

Bloodbraid Elf

Gruul Ragebeast

Return of the Wildspeaker

Andramalech on Poor Kid Kenny

1 month ago

Matteby2813 I really enjoy what you've created here! I also like the image of a peasant-king Kenrith who has to "grow his kingdom" with like, +1/+1 counters and other resources.

  • There's a ton of "treasures and trinkets" (mana rocks you'd expect like Sol Ring or Arcane Signet) but furthered development to the theme like Staff of Domination and Explorer's Scope to help you mana fix.

  • The investment in the theme with those smart choices and things like Replicating Ring and Everflowing Chalice to reinforce he does, in fact, have family relics that imbue some kind of supernatural kind of effect. I dunno, I just think this deck does enough to develop a strong imagination!

  • I really appreciate how the list includes very obscure choices like Corpsejack Menace alongside the greatest cast of includes like Conclave Mentor and pretty much every scale-able and adjacent effect you could think of to include in the first place. It's a full serving and then some committed to the task of adding +1/+1 counters, so that's worth mentioning for sure. Great job!

  • I see haymaker cards that really seal a strong game like Faithful Watchdog and I'm so so proud to see a card like that. Why? Because in your deck, in your vision.. you saw a man who is doing whatever it takes to succeed and his best friend.. who happens to be a f@#$%king bomb for your concept! 13/10 win for the deck.

  • I really like how your deck tackles the issue of 5 colors by balancing a lot of the game after turn , which, is where you typically lead with something Green. Since this is already the case, maybe think of inclusions like Birds of Paradise since it creates one of any color? That seems to be your gameplan, is to provide one-of-any after turn .

  • I noticed you kept the Gorgon around for the list. I'm just curious as to her inclusion, and wondering if you're shipping them with Kenrith.. dare I say.. SCanDal....? I'm just joking. But no really- why include her here? Just the one-off win condition of poision death? I get it.. but wondered if you really fancied Vraska. I know I do!

This was a great list, and I'm super surprised you haven't upvoted your own deck, my friend. Be proud of your work! Look at how great it is.

NV_1980 on Panty-loser....Sun Flavored?

1 month ago

Forgot to mention mana dorks as a possible avenue to a speed-increase, like Birds of Paradise, Bloom Tender, Fanatic of Rhonas, Somberwald Sage, etc.

Austin_Smith_of_Cards on I Have the Power!

2 months ago

Nice list, looks like a solid Temur build

I do think the average CMC of the deck is a little high though; I would try to cut some 3 and 4 drops and push up the 1s and 2s to make the opening turns more consistent. Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Goblin Anarchomancer, Sol Ring would go a long way to help start getting to be able to play the good stuff faster.

Alternatively, you could swing the other route, cut out all the 1-2 drops from the deck, and make this a Keruga, the Macrosage companion list, which turns into additional card advantage from the command zone.

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

2 months ago

Bone Collector

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Bone Collector enters the battlefield, you may discard any number of creature cards from your hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card put into your graveyard in this way.

2/5

This will be more of a thematic one, but make an appropriate Birds of Paradise in another color.

It can't be a bird, however.

Andramalech on Mono green superramp

3 months ago

eww... alright, lemme help.

kamarupa on Don't

4 months ago

While I don't recommend it, as it really puts a target on your dorks, if you have Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy in play, a Freed from the Real on a Birds of Paradise or Noble Hierarch would generate infinite mana. There's certainly enough protection with current Instants, though, if you wanted to go that route. Bloom Tender would another solid choice to include then, if you felt so inclined.

I definitely think the manabase could be improved on. It seems there's no budget for creatures, but lands are all budget? So I was hesitant earlier, and didn't have the time either then to make a case for improvements. That said, 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth is, IMO, always worth whatever mana-fixing it provides opponents. After that, I tend to prefer Botanical Sanctum, Dreamroot Cascade and Barkchannel Pathway  Flip to the perennially desired Breeding Poolfoil and Misty Rainforest. I just can't stand the thought of burning 3 life to get one dual land. I usually also include Scavenger Grounds just on the off chance I face a deck that likes to bring stuff back from the graveyard.

I didn't see you asking for removal spells, but Beast Within is decent, IMO, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at any deck running Pongify or Rapid Hybridization, especially if the deck is also packing creatures that can block those 3/3 gift tokens.

While it's a bit gutsy to rely strictly on mana dorks for the white mana needed to cast Gods Willing, I rather like the idea of an unblockable swing thanks to its protection.

In my eyes, the biggest weaknesses are: Opt doesn't provide any card advantage. Divination would be better, and Harmonize better still. Hydroid Krasis, as I said before, seems to fit as well and comes with the bonus of a bit of lifegain which is never bad. And that leads to the next issue - the wincons are [almost] all legendary, and therefore rightly limited to less than 4 copies each. I do like that they come with their own means of preventing removal, though. And finally, that the mana base just isn't as premium as most the spells it supports.

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