![]() It creates a fun gameplay experience, but it should be relegated to political decks. Giving players expendable bodies might enable their gameplan, and someone might kill Calligrapher off and start sending their Inkling tokens your way. Combat CalligrapherĪs much as I love Combat Calligrapher and other incentives for your opponents to attack one another, it’s easy for cards like this to backfire. ![]() It’s a disruptive hate bear in a format full of fetch lands and tutors. I’ve been scorned by this bird, but it’s effective against 100-card Singleton decks. I once brought four copies of Aven Mindcensor to a Modern Grand Prix, and every time I flashed it in against a search effect my opponent found what they needed in the top four cards. This was the scourge of Khans of Tarkir Limited and even left its mark on Standard, but I find it a Roc solid addition to Commander. Raid isn’t hard to enable, so this’ll be two 3/4 fliers for five mana more often than not, with one of those bodies gaining you life on attacks. ![]() It won’t always work, and bouncing back to hand is troublesome, but it stacks up well against players who spend their early turns on Rampant Growth effects. The trick is to attack someone with fewer lands then play your normal land drop post-combat to actually get ahead on mana. Cartographer’s HawkĬartographer's Hawk showcases white’s ability to ramp, but only as a catch-up mechanic. You can’t create infinite loops since it exiles itself on death, but it dies into the best two birds/clerics in your graveyard, which can be especially effective with an instant-speed sac outlet. Celestial Gatekeeperīirds and clerics don’t overlap much, but Celestial Gatekeeper is a decent glue card for either type. As you’ll see, birds have a far-reaching wingspan in Magic, ranging from dorky cantripping speedbumps to efficient dragon-like beaters. You can expect most birds to have flying, but that’s where their mechanical similarities stop. I mean, why else are you looking at a list of birds if not for your Kangee, Aerie Keeper deck? I’ll mention when an entry has Constructed relevance, but the ranking is based on present-day viability in Commander. Ledger Shredder | Illustration by Mila Pesicīirds in MTG are any creature card with the subtype “bird.” I thought about including noncreature spells that create Birds, like Migratory Route and Battle Screech, but decided to keep it simple and stick to creature spells for today. ![]() Doric, Nature’s Warden / Doric, Owlbear Avenger ![]()
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