Birbs

Format: Commander

Commander: Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant Flying Kindred and Landfall midrange strategy built around Choco, Seeker of Paradise. The deck establishes an early aerial presence using efficient one- and two-mana Birds like Cloudfin Raptor, Healer's Hawk, and Watcher of the Spheres. Once Choco enters on Turn 4, declaring attacks with existing Birds triggers its ability to dig through the library, draw nonland cards, and drop extra lands directly onto the battlefield tapped. This rapid land acceleration triggers Landfall synergies across cards like Felidar Retreat, Chocobo Racetrack, and Emeria Angel, generating additional tokens while pumping Choco's power. The deck transitions into a lethal clock around Turn 6 by resolving powerful aerial anthems such as Steel-Plume Marshal, Kangee, Sky Warden, or an asymmetric wipe like Raise the Palisade. It finishes opponents through overwhelming evasive combat damage over two response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Airborne Aid
• 1 Augury Owl
• 1 Bant Panorama
• 1 Bartz and Boko
• 1 Battle Screech
• 1 Battlefield Raptor
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brokers Hideout
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise
• 1 Chocobo Racetrack
• 1 City Pigeon
• 1 Cloudfin Raptor
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Duty Beyond Death
• 1 Emeria Angel
• 1 Empyrean Eagle
• 1 Encouraging Aviator // Jump
• 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Falcon and Redwing
• 1 Favorable Winds
• 1 Featherbrained Filcher
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Flurry of Wings
• 2 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Harmonized Crescendo
• 1 Healer's Hawk
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 6 Island
• 1 Jackdaw Savior
• 1 Judge's Familiar
• 1 Kangee's Lieutenant
• 1 Kangee, Sky Warden
• 1 Kastral, the Windcrested
• 1 Keeper of the Nine Gales
• 1 Lilypad Village
• 1 Lupinflower Village
• 1 Migratory Route
• 1 Miner's Guidewing
• 1 Mirror Entity
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets
• 1 Mothdust Changeling
• 1 Murmuration
• 1 Obscura Storefront
• 1 Old Thrush
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 6 Plains
• 1 Plumecreed Escort
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Ranger's Hawk
• 1 Ravenhill Flock
• 1 River Hoopoe
• 1 Sazh's Chocobo
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo
• 1 Silver Raven
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Soulcatchers' Aerie
• 1 Steel-Plume Marshal
• 1 Strix Lookout
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
• 1 The Goose Mother
• 1 The Lord of the Eagles
• 1 Tranquil Landscape
• 1 Traveling Chocobo
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Winged Portent
• 1 Yavimaya Coast