Legendary Falcon Lord??
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Oct. 18, 2020, 1:42 a.m. by Omniscience_is_life
Something odd just happened: I was looking at the auto-suggest cards for a deck recently, and one card that came up was a "summon legend" who pumped all Falcons. She was mono-white and had a few other abilities that I forget. I thought "hey, that seems like a fun Jank build" and looked the card up on Scryfall. It doesn't exist. When I came back to T/O I realized--to my dismay-- that I had dismissed the card, and it was no longer in my auto-suggest page. I can't find this card anywhere! Is there a bug where random fake commanders get added to these lists? I legitimately want to build a deck around this legend now, but she doesn't seem to be real. Thanks for your help all
Omniscience_is_life says... #3
Thanks mate, that's the one! No clue why she doesn't come up with the oracle search "falcon" on scryfall... appreciate it nonetheless!
October 18, 2020 1:47 a.m.
Soraya the Falconer has received errata so her rules text properly refers to "Birds" instead of "Falcons". That would be why your Scryfall search failed.
October 18, 2020 1:47 a.m.
Banding is the jankiest ability in the whole game. Sounds like a great jank commander. Bird banding tribal. Not that banding is even useful for an evasive creature, but we do anything for the memes.
October 18, 2020 3:29 a.m.
Lanzo493 - Banding on something that flies gives you a way to stop the two most common ways to push through combat damage--flying allows you to block other fliers; Banding allows you to stop 100% of damage from Tramplers.
Alas, mono-White birds are fairly bad. There's the fantastic Aven Mindcensor, some okay options like Cloudchaser Kestrel and Commander Eesha, and the remainder are mediocre-at-best.
October 18, 2020 3:45 a.m. Edited.
VampDemigod says... #8
You are forgetting tokens. It’s by no means interesting to drop bird generators and build up a bird army, but I can see it, at least for jank.
Also, I have to say it. Yay big birbs w/ banding & buffs!
October 18, 2020 9:13 a.m.
See how cool Magic is? It even has Big Bird;Ageless Sentinels & Chicken Egg
October 18, 2020 12:23 p.m.
Birds however, give you way better options. Maybe not super competitive but fun for kitchen table play. Stuff like Pride of the Clouds and Battle Screech get you birds and then Soulcatchers' Aerie, Aven Brigadier and Kangee, Aerie Keeper get you some fat. Crookclaw Elder, Seaside Haven & Keeper of the Nine Gales give you something to do with the birds while you arent bashing face.
Not so Old School there are now other good options as well in White & Blue; Murmuring Mystic, Jotun Owl Keeper, Animal Sanctuary, Airborne Aid, Emeria Angel, Migratory Route.
My new personal favorite is Skycat Sovereign. Because the only thing better than birds are Cat Birds!
October 18, 2020 12:36 p.m.
FormOverFunction says... #12
Check my banding edh deck (because of course I made one of those) for more banding ideas! https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/banding-of-brothers/
October 18, 2020 9:41 p.m.
Nightblad3 says... #13
Y'all seem to have missed Sephara, Sky's Blade and Favorable Winds for a flyer deck. I actually brewed an Azorius flyers deck last week but haven't done much with it.
October 19, 2020 1:26 p.m.
VampDemigod says... #14
That’s because the discussion was initially about mono-white.
Lanzo493 says... #2
Soraya the Falconer?
October 18, 2020 1:46 a.m.