Jubilant Skybonder's Keyword Soup

Pauper EDH* WU (Azorius)

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Creature (38)

• 1x Alabaster Kirin
• 1x Armored Griffin
• 1x Cloudkin Seer
• 1x Combat Professor
• 1x Courier Hawk
• 1x Dauntless Aven
• 1x Dawnglare Invoker
• 1x Disruptive Pitmage
• 1x Disruptive Student
• 1x Diving Griffin
• 1x Eagle of the Watch
• 1x Fiend Binder
• 1x Griffin Sentinel
• 1x Healer's Hawk
• 1x Hovermyr
• 1x Kinscaer Harpoonist
• 1x Master of Diversion
• 1x Messenger Jays
• 1x Minister of Impediments
• 1x Misthoof Kirin
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Parhelion Patrol
• 1x Rhox Veteran
• 1x Segovian Angel
• 1x Seraph of Dawn
• 1x Silkbind Faerie
• 1x Skyhunter Prowler
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Skyshroud Falcon
• 1x Sphinx's Disciple
• 1x Star-Crowned Stag
• 1x Sungrace Pegasus
• 1x Tah-Crop Elite
• 1x Territorial Hammerskull
• 1x Tome Raider
• 1x Vodalian Mage
• 1x Wings of the Guard
• 1x Zephyr Falcon

Land (36)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Idyllic Grange
• 11x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Meandering River
• 1x Opal Palace
• 13x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Tranquil Cove

Artifact (9)

• 1x Bladed Bracers
• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Cultist's Staff
• 1x Darksteel Axe
• 1x Jousting Lance
• 1x Marauder's Axe
• 1x Torch Gauntlet
• 1x True-Faith Censer
• 1x Vulshok Morningstar

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Brilliant Halo
• 1x Candlelight Vigil
• 1x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Mammoth Umbra
• 1x Marked by Honor
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Ocular Halo
• 1x Sentinel's Eyes
• 1x Squire's Devotion
• 1x Steel of the Godhead

Instant (6)

• 1x Confound
• 1x Contradict
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Turn Aside

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The idea behind this deck is to be a somewhat aggressive tempo deck, with an emphasis on Keyword Soup for defense.

Jubilant Skybonder's ability makes it uniquely suited to a go semi-wide strategy. Having many smaller targets makes it less worth your opponents' time and mana to remove your creatures, and reduces your losses when they do decide to waste a whole turn targeting one of your fliers. Meanwhile, the tax also makes it safer to put auras on your creatures to beef them up a little. This also works well with a tempo style where you play aggressive fliers and start hitting early, since some decks won't be able to pay the removal tax until fairly late in the game.

The gameplay is pretty straight forward. Accumulate fliers, maybe attach some equipment and auras, and start beating face. Any fliers with vigilance help you keep blockers available to reduce counterattacks, and lifelink will help keep you alive through the attacks you can't block.

Other tricks include counterspells, tapdown effects, and team buffs. Abilities like on Disruptive Pitmage, which amplify the effectiveness of Skybonder's tax, and can also help slow down how fast your opponents can deploy their own large combat threats. Counterspells like Confound are also more effective, since your opponents are spending so much more mana on their removal. Tapdown effects and team buffs like on Rhox Veteran help you get damage in against opponents with flying blockers and greatly amplify the offensive threat of your creatures.

The obvious weakness of this deck is board wipes like Crypt Rats. Increasing the number of counterspells or indestructibility instants like Rootborn Defenses would help, but I think it will be difficult to increase the number of spells too much more without damaging the aggressive stance of the deck.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Vampire 1/1 W
Folders	Pauper EDH, Pauper