  Make
A Drake.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
Let's begin with flavor, shall we? All of the
best entrees have great flavor, and so do decks. Lots of people enjoy
the flavor of Dovescape, which I'm not all that enthralled with. When I
think flavor, I think Leafdrake Roost.
All I am doing with this deck is building a Blue/Green
control deck around Drakes N Stuff, which would be the alternate name for
Make a Drake (Another alternate name is Drakes R Us). Outside of a few
drakes at varying casting costs, I also include a nice miscellany.
Naturalize is your new ubiquitous Disenchant for all
decks Green. It slices and dices its way through all things magical and
artificial. Mana Leak joins the Spiketail Drakes as countermagic, although
it's not serious countermagic.
I'm trying out Flash Foliage and seeing how it works. It
seems like a decent Fog for a creature and a card. It will also kill small
creatures, and I like that for Green. Note that Flash Foliage will block
any creature, including those normally unblockable, by having fear or
landwalk or sheer unblockability.
I wanted a way to pump my flyers. I started with Rancor,
but I decided to slide into Bonesplitter because this deck was ending up
as Blue intensive, rather than Green intensive. A 3/1 flying attacking
Spiketail Hatchling on the third turn is no slouch.
I rounded out the deck with a pair of surprise Might of
Oaks. I find that I rarely want four. One you play Might of Oaks, people
expect you to always have Might of Oaks and play around it. However, two
should be sufficient to get them often enough. Since the entire deck's
creature base is flying, there's a pretty good chance that creatures are
getting through.
Another way to build the Drakes deck is to splash Red.
In Red there are a variety of effects that deal damage to all non-flyers,
and therefore, all of your creatures would be safe. You could also run a
Red drake or two.
Leafdrake Roost is a great backup in this deck. Not only
is it thematic, but it also makes a 2/2 flyer every turn. Soon your
opponent will be swarmed with 2/2 flyers. One interesting sidenote about
the Leafdrake Roost – it costs five mana to play, but only two to
activate. You can activate it and always have mana left over to do other
things. You'll rarely play something that won't let you also Make a Drake.
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