1 Celestial Gatekeeper
3 Crookclaw Elder
3 Keeper of the Nine Gales
3 Sage Owl
4 Soulcatcher
3 Suntail Hawk
3 Artificial Evolution
3 Battle Screech
3 Faces of the Past
2 Sigil of the New Dawn
4 Soulcatchers' Aerie
4 Spawning Pit
6 Plains
6 Island
3 Adarkar Wastes
3 Coastal Tower
1 Flooded Strand
2 Lonely Sandbar
1 Seaside Haven
2 Secluded Steppe |
  Birds
& Stuffing.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
That's not enough for me, though. I have to overthink the problem
and overshoot the target. See, it occurs to me that it's a crying shame
that Spawning Pit produces Spawn tokens. Wouldn't it be better if it
churned out Bird tokens? Apparently, that's not in keeping with flavor.
Pshaw, I say! Puh(pause)shaw! Hack that thing with Artificial Evolution!
Then, with an Aerie in play, you can eat two Birds to give the rest of
your air force +2/+2 and spawn a 4/4 Bird token. But that's still not
enough. This is a tribal deck that sacrifices its creatures. Perfect fit
for Faces of the Past, no? With Faces and a Pit, you can tap some Birds
for some effect, sac a Bird to untap everything, then tap them again.
This requires Birds with good tap effects, and Crookclaw Elder and
Keeper of the Nine Gales fit the (god help me, I can't believe I'm going
to say this about a Bird deck) bill.
The last element of this deck is a way to not run out of creatures. In
early versions I was toying with the Urza's Saga cards Lifeline and
Remembrance, but when I realized that except for Raven Familiar, the
rest of the deck was Online Extended-legal, I brought in Sigil of the
New Dawn instead. As always, your version of the deck (should you choose
to build one) ought to incorporate the best cards you have available to
you.
All this mucking about with combo pieces leaves me a bit worried that
there aren't enough Birds left. This deck wouldn't even be allowed in
the Tribal format on Magic Online because it only has 17 Birds (it
doesn't count Battle Screech as Birds #18, #19, and #20 even though it
probably should). Like I said, it's overstuffed. The curse of too many
ideas. Don't you hate being clever sometimes?
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