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Kastral, the Windcrested
Flying
Whenever one or more Birds you control deal combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You may put a Bird creature card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield with a finality counter on it.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each Bird you control.
• Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Bird Scout
Kastral, the Windcrested (blb) 221

Commander

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Empyrean Eagle
Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Creature - Bird Spirit
Empyrean Eagle (m20) 208
Flowering of the White Tree
Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward
.
Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.
Legendary Enchantment
Flowering of the White Tree (ltr) 15
Kangee, Sky Warden
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Kangee attacks, attacking creatures with flying get +2/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever Kangee blocks, blocking creatures with flying get +0/+2 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Bird
Kangee, Sky Warden (scd) 234
Soulcatchers' Aerie
Whenever a Bird is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a feather counter on this enchantment.
Bird creatures get +1/+1 for each feather counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Soulcatchers' Aerie (jud) 25
Steel-Plume Marshal
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, other attacking creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Creature - Soldier Bird
Steel-Plume Marshal (scd) 35

Anthem

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (blc) 162

Artifact

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Cathars' Crusade
Whenever a creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Enchantment
Cathars' Crusade (inr) 17
Cloudfin Raptor
Flying
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Bird Mutant
Cloudfin Raptor (rvr) 37
High Sentinels of Arashin
Flying
This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Creature - Soldier Bird
High Sentinels of Arashin (moc) 189
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Bird Monk
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker (c16) 33

Counters

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Aerial Extortionist
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it.
Whenever another player casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Creature - Soldier Bird
Aerial Extortionist (mkc) 54
Stirring Hopesinger
Flying, lifelink
Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Creature - Bird Bard
Stirring Hopesinger (sos) 35

Creature

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Enduring Curiosity
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Cat Glimmer
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Ledger Shredder
Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Bird Advisor
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Reconnaissance Mission
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (iko) 65
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Flash
Flying, vigilance
When Wan Shi Tong enters, put X +1/+1 counters on him. Then draw half X cards, rounded down.
Whenever an opponent searches their library, put a +1/+1 counter on Wan Shi Tong and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Bird Spirit
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian (tla) 78

Draw

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Miner's Guidewing
Flying, vigilance
When this creature dies, target creature you control explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Bird
Miner's Guidewing (lci) 24
Shrike Force
Flying, double strike, vigilance
Creature - Knight Bird
Shrike Force (blb) 31

Evasion

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Abandoned Air Temple
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add
.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Land
Abandoned Air Temple (tla) 263
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (plst) M3C-316
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (who) 263
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Floodfarm Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.
Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (fic) 400
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (dft) 282
Karn's Bastion
: Add
.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Land
Karn's Bastion (pwar) 248p
Lilypad Village
: Add
.
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
,
: Surveil 2. Activate only if a Bird, Frog, Otter, or Rat entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
Land
Lilypad Village (blb) 255
Mystic Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Nesting Grounds
: Add
.
,
: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 302
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (who) 293
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mkm) 278
Port Town
As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Port Town (who) 294
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (tdc) 384
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Restless Anchorage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and blue Bird creature with flying. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, create a Map token.
Land
Restless Anchorage (lci) 280
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (tdc) 394
Temple of Enlightenment
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Enlightenment (who) 315
Three Tree City
As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.
Legendary Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260

Land

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Emeria Angel
Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Creature - Angel
Emeria Angel (tdc) 114

Landfall

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Healer's Hawk
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Bird
Healer's Hawk (fdn) 142
Shabraz, the Skyshark
Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life.
: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Bird Shark
Shabraz, the Skyshark (c20) 14

Lifegain

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Thrummingbird
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Creature - Bird Horror Phyrexian
Thrummingbird (one) 288

Proliferate

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Duty Beyond Death
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy those creatures.)
Instant
Duty Beyond Death (tdm) 10
Flare of Fortitude
You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.
Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 391
Gustcloak Savior
Flying
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may untap that creature and remove it from combat.
Creature - Soldier Bird
Gustcloak Savior (ddo) 11
Jubilant Skybonder
Flying
Creatures you control with flying have "Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost
more to cast."
Creature - Human Wizard
Jubilant Skybonder (iko) 223
Plumecreed Escort
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.
Creature - Bird Scout
Plumecreed Escort (blb) 65
Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 299
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (blc) 265
Cartographer's Hawk
Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Bird
Cartographer's Hawk (scd) 10
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Heraldic Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Midnight Clock
: Add
.
: Put an hour counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.
Artifact
Midnight Clock (drc) 79
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Misleading Signpost
Flash
When this artifact enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)
: Add
.
Artifact
Misleading Signpost (woc) 11
Scouting Hawk
Flying
Keen Sight — When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Bird
Scouting Hawk (clb) 41
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (fic) 367
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Warden of Evos Isle
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Warden of Evos Isle (cmr) 106
Watcher of the Spheres
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (tdc) 335

Ramp

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Jackdaw Savior
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying dies, return another target creature card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Cleric Bird
Jackdaw Savior (blb) 18

Recursion

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Austere Command
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Austere Command (fic) 231
Dazzling Denial
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If you control a Bird, counter that spell unless its controller pays
instead.
Instant
Dazzling Denial (blb) 45
Judge's Familiar
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Bird
Judge's Familiar (rvr) 192
Lieutenant Kirtar
Flying
, Sacrifice Lieutenant Kirtar: Exile target attacking creature.
Legendary Creature - Soldier Bird
Lieutenant Kirtar (dmr) 265
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (acr) 81
Reality Shift
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Instant
Reality Shift (tdc) 163
Run Away Together
Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Run Away Together (fdn) 162
Strix Serenade
Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 71
Stroke of Midnight
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Instant
Stroke of Midnight (tdc) 132
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (who) 212
Winds of Abandon
Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Winds of Abandon (plst) MH1-37

Removal

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Winnowing
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
For each player, you choose a creature that player controls. Then each player sacrifices all other creatures they control that don't share a creature type with the chosen creature they control.
Sorcery
Winnowing (ecl) 43

Sorcery

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Battle Screech
Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.
Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Battle Screech (cmm) 17
Migratory Route
Create four 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.
Basic landcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Sorcery
Migratory Route (khc) 87

Tokens

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Rally of Wings
Untap all creatures you control. Creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Instant
Rally of Wings (war) 27

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

46 pips - 35 cards
31 mana - 29 cards
32 pips - 27 cards
33 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 10 cards
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