Protect the Flock by transcendent.ed

Format: Commander

Commander: Kastral, the Windcrested

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Azorius deck focuses on a high-velocity Bird typal strategy led by Kastral, the Windcrested. In the opening turns, it deploys low-cost evasive creatures and efficient cost-reducers such as Watcher of the Spheres and Momo, Friendly Flier. On Turn 4, Kastral enters the battlefield and triggers immediately on combat damage to distribute +1/+1 counters, cheat high-impact Birds into play, or draw cards. The deck ramps into powerful aerial anthems like Banner of Kinship and Murmuration, overwhelming opponents with scaling combat damage by Turn 7. The strategy is bolstered by an efficient counterspell suite, protection tools like Dawn's Truce and Change of Plans, and asymmetric tempo swings from Raise the Palisade. Additionally, the deck houses a potent late-game infinite combo between Dovescape and Guile, creating endless Bird tokens whenever a noncreature spell is cast.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Airborne Aid
  • 1 Animal Sanctuary
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Battle Screech
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Cartographer's Hawk
  • 1 Change of Plans
  • 1 City Pigeon
  • 1 Cloudchaser Kestrel
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curious Farm Animals
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Denial
  • 1 Dovescape
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guile
  • 1 Gwaihir the Windlord
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Judge's Familiar
  • 1 Kastral, the Windcrested
  • 1 Keeper of the Nine Gales
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Lupinflower Village
  • 1 Magosi, the Waterveil
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Migratory Route
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Momo, Friendly Flier
  • 1 Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets
  • 1 Murmuration
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nimble Obstructionist
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pilfering Hawk
  • 1 Plumecreed Escort
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Rhet-Tomb Mystic
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seaside Haven
  • 1 Shrike Force
  • 8 Snow-Covered Island
  • 3 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulcatchers' Aerie
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
  • 1 The Lord of the Eagles
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windbrisk Raptor
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wingmate Roc