Bird Up by McSquizor18

Format: Commander

Commander: Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Bant Bird-tribal landfall engine helmed by Choco, Seeker of Paradise, a commander that turns every combat into a miniature Future Sight + Exploration: each attacking Bird digs a card, adds one to hand, and puts every land found into play tapped, which in turn feeds a dense landfall package (Chocobo Racetrack, Sazh's Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Ambrosia Whiteheart). The deck wins primarily through evasive flying beats: token engines like Murmuration and Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo widen the board, while Empyrean Eagle, Banner of Kinship, Soulcatchers' Aerie, and Kastral, the Windcrested push the swarm past 40-life reach. Secondary lines include Kastral's attack-trigger reanimation, Bident of Thassa goads, and a flashy The Lord of the Eagles finisher. There are no infinite combos; the plan is relentless incremental value that snowballs into a lethal flying alpha strike.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Airborne Aid
  • 1 Ambrosia Whiteheart
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bartz and Boko
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise
  • 1 Chocobo Kick
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Clinquant Skymage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Denial
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Flurry of Wings
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Gwaihir the Windlord
  • 1 Gysahl Greens
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jackdaw Savior
  • 1 Judge's Familiar
  • 1 Kastral, the Windcrested
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Murmuration
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Ostrich-Horse
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumecreed Escort
  • 1 Plumecreed Mentor
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Salvation Swan
  • 1 Sazh Katzroy
  • 1 Sazh's Chocobo
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Shrike Force
  • 1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulcatchers' Aerie
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Storm Crow
  • 1 Strix Lookout
  • 1 Summon: Fat Chocobo
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Observer
  • 1 Tawnos, the Toymaker
  • 3 Tempest Hawk
  • 1 The Lord of the Eagles
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast