{"ops":[{"insert":" Welcome to my submission for this month's deckbuilding contest! For my deck I wanted to build something a bit more off the wall with a less supported tribe, so I give you drake tribal with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inniaz, the Gale Force"}},{"insert":" at the helm. Now drakes don't have a ton of tribal support, with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alandra, Sky Dreamer"}},{"insert":" being one of the only cards that mentions them in it's rules text. However, we can build around what drakes do, namely that they are all flyers and that a few well known drakes are... thieves. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gilded Drake"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Volatile Stormdrake"}},{"insert":" are two of the more infamous and frequently played drakes with their ability to swap themselves with an opponents creature, so I added a theft element to the deck with a focus on trading permanents with our opponents. \n\n The gameplan of the deck is to build up a board with a few evasive flyers, Swing out with 3 flyers while our commander is in play and then swap permanents around the board in our favor. Now there are a few options when it comes to what we are going to give to our opponents. We could hand over a smaller drake, like a 2/2 token made by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Talrand, Sky Summoner"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alandra, Sky Dreamer"}},{"insert":", or we can trade something that doesn't need to be under our control to help our board. Cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gravitational Shift"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magus of the Moat"}},{"insert":" can be given to opponents and will still help us push for air superiority. Other cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Claim Jumper"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Karmic Guide"}},{"insert":" are easy to donate when they have already served their purpose. Furthermore, one of my favorite cards to swap is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Coveted Jewel"}},{"insert":" since we can preemptively attack the person we are going to give it to, so that we can almost guarantee that we will get it right back, drawing us tons of cards! \n\n Our commander "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inniaz, the Gale Force"}},{"insert":" has an activated ability that can help pump our board to push for lethal, evasive swings, but we are also running an assortment of flyer anthem effects, including cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Air Nomad Legacy"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Favorable Winds"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thunderclap Wyvern"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Windstorm Drake"}},{"insert":". Additionally, the deck is running a theft/swap package to help us maintain our trading shenanigan's with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Agent of Treachery"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sakashima's Will"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Modify Memory"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shifting Grift"}},{"insert":". Finally, the deck has a few alternative wincons with cards that we can benefit from, before giving them away to an opponent to get them killed. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Illusions of Grandeur"}},{"insert":" gives us 20 life on etb and can be gifted to another player, forcing them to pay the cumulative upkeep or take 20 damage, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nine Lives"}},{"insert":" can protect us from some damage before being donated to get another player eliminated. \n\n Lastly, I wanted to go over a few cool drake combos and tech pieces in the deck! The deck includes a sneaky infect wincon with the theft card "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Corrupted Conscience"}},{"insert":" and our evasive, proliferating "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Viral Drake"}},{"insert":". We can even use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iridescent Drake"}},{"insert":" to recure "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Corrupted Conscience"}},{"insert":" for another infect beater if there aren't any other good aura targets. As mentioned previously a lot of the inspo. for this deck comes from the classic "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gilded Drake"}},{"insert":", and it's newer counterpart "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Volatile Stormdrake"}},{"insert":", both of which can pair really nicely with the card "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Barrin, Master Wizard"}},{"insert":". With the wizard in play and some spare mana we can steal a creature with a drake, sac the creature with the Barrins ability to bounce our own drake back to our hands, giving us a repeatable removal loop, or we can hold up 2 mana incase someone tries to remove a stolen creature and sac it in response. Additionally, the deck includes the land "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Homeward Path"}},{"insert":" which can give us back our swapped creatures if all of our stolen goodies have been removed. Finally, I wanted to mention that the deck has the ability to really leverage alliances and politics, by offering players with a weaker boardstate another players more powerful pieces. This is facilitated further with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hithlain Rope"}},{"insert":" and previously mentioned swap cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Modify Memory"}},{"insert":". Overall, the deck seems like a lot of fun with tons of shenanigan's to get into. However, if you want to build the deck I would recommend running a proxy of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gilded Drake"}},{"insert":" since it's $155+ price tag makes up over half of the decks total cost.\n"}]}