2 Aven Liberator
3 Cloudreach Cavalry
2 Diving Griffin
4 Gustcloak Harrier
4 Leonin Skyhunter
3 Slith Ascendant
2 Steel Wall
4 Suntail Hawk
4 Wall of Hope
2 Banshee's Blade
4 Bonesplitter
2 Fireshrieker
2 Lightning Greaves
18 Plains
4 Secluded Steppe |
 Flight
Attendance.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
How can you make flying work for you? Clog the ground with cheap
Walls, fill the skies with cheap flying attackers, and you’ll dispatch a
lot of opposing decks before they know what hit them.
Look at the cheap flying creatures available in Eighth Edition, and
you’ll get a lesson in where flying fits in the color wheel. White gets
a 1/1 with flying for W. Blue has to pay 1U for its flying 1/1, but
unless you’re stuck with Sea Eagle, you get a bonus prize like
rearranging the top of your deck, +0/+1, or a built-in Force Spike. That
implies that blue would get a 1/1 with flying for just U if it was any
good at creatures, but it’s not. In black, 1B will buy you the
straight-up 1/1 flying creature, while red feels the burn with a 1/1
creature with flying and a drawback for 1R. And green? Excepting the
exceptional Birds of Paradise (which is, after all, an exception),
green’s comparable creature is Canopy Spider, a 1/3 for 1G with
anti-flying.
Broadening our horizons to the Standard card pool, we see that a flying
2/2 with no other abilities costs either WW or 2U. For 1WW, you can get
a flying 2/2 with another good ability. Blue provides some good airborne
creatures for 2U, and black does the same for 1BB, but the cream of the
flock is in white—as long as you’re willing to commit to the color. If
you want the best flying weenies, you have to either go monowhite, which
will limit your options, or include a painful mana base so you can
access blue. I wanted to make a Lite deck, so Flooded Strand was left
stranded, and the deck I built has so many one-drops that Coastal Tower
could really hurt. So monowhite it is!
Yes, every creature in that deck that isn’t a Wall can fly, though the
Cloudreach Cavalry needs some help. In white, you’re not paying much for
the ability at all, so you might as well include as many flyers as
possible. The mix of Equipment that bolsters your air force is up to
you; Leonin Scimitar got left out of the mix, but it’s a fine inclusion
as well.
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