bird by zertoupette

Format: Commander

Commander: Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant Bird tribal aggro and landfall engine commanded by Choco, Seeker of Paradise. The strategy revolves around deploying inexpensive, evasive flying Birds in the early turns, casting Choco by turn 3 or 4, and attacking to trigger Choco's ability. This trigger digs deep into the library, draws cards, and dumps all revealed lands directly onto the battlefield tapped. The resulting influx of lands triggers landfall abilities across cards like Felidar Retreat, Chocobo Racetrack, and Choco itself, creating an exponential growth in mana and power. The deck converts this resource advantage into game finishes using high-impact tribal anthems such as Beastmaster Ascension, Banner of Kinship, and Kangee, Sky Warden, or through asymmetric board resets like Raise the Palisade. While extremely potent in card flow and evasive combat pressure, the deck is vulnerable to board sweepers and carries minimal reactive disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Airborne Aid
• 1 Ambrosia Whiteheart
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Banner of Kinship
• 1 Bartz and Boko
• 1 Beastmaster Ascension
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise
• 1 Chocobo Camp
• 1 Chocobo Racetrack
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Curiosity Crafter
• 1 Dazzling Denial
• 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Empyrean Eagle
• 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Flurry of Wings
• 9 Forest
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Gwaihir the Windlord
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 9 Island
• 1 Jackdaw Savior
• 1 Judge's Familiar
• 1 Kangee, Sky Warden
• 1 Kastral, the Windcrested
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Murmuration
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perch Protection
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 4 Plains
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sazh's Chocobo
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Shrike Force
• 1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo
• 1 Soulcatchers' Aerie
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Spelunking
• 1 Steel-Plume Marshal
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Tawnos, the Toymaker
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Goose Mother
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tranquil Landscape
• 1 Traveling Chocobo
• 1 Warden of Evos Isle
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Winged Portent