Mysterious, otherworldly, and possessing a power that humans have always admired, birds are also a thing that you can make a Commander deck around in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering. They're not exactly as strong as drago🍷ns or as powerful as the Eldrazi, but Magic sure has a lot of ♌birds, and there's a strength in numbers.

The path to victory for birds isn't to simply play more birds--like the flying keyword itself, you'll need strategy and cunning to get the most out of these winged critters. You'll also need the right comᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmander to makꦛe these birds soar. Read on for the top ten commanders for a Bird-type deck.

November 29, 2924, by Ryan Hay: We've updated this guide to enhance readability and ensure that all of the information is accurate.

13 🐈 Gwai🙈hir, The Windlord

Lord Of The Eagles

We start with one of the coolest legendary birds to arrive in Magic. Gwaihir, the Windlord isn't exactly a powerhouse, but this noble bird offers a very꧅ useful bonus to the army of birds your commander deck will hopefully produce. Vigilance is a very strong keyword to provide your side of the board in Commander, and a 4/4 flying body ain't nothing.

The only trick will be ensuring that you draw two or more cards on a single turn to play Gwaihir at a discount. Luckily, with blue in the mix, drawing a bunch of cards is easy (Brainstorm comes to mind). Blue and white are also ▨the staple colors of birds, with cards like Empyrean Eagle, Watcher o𝔍f the Spheres, and Soulcatcher's Aerie available.

12 Kan♊gee,😼 Sky Warden

Keep Watch Of Those Skies

Is Gwaihir a little too expensive for you? Don't want to muck about with drawing cards to make it cheaper? Then Kangee, Sky Warden offers a slightly smaller flying body with vigilance alongside some fantastic buffs for your bird army. Every flying critter on 🍨the attack gets +2/+0, and every blocking flyer gets +0/+2.

T👍iming is everything with Kangee. You'll want to play this bir🔴d wizard when the time is right to attack, thus providing your army with a big power boost. Giving your flying army vigilance would be handy, so consider putting Gwaihir in your main deck if Kangee is your commander.

11 🤪 𝕴 Radagast, Wizard Of Wilds

Radagast The Brown

Radagast loves two thi🌺ngs: beasts and birds. Both will get ward 1 when൲ever Radagast is around, but we'll focus on the bird-boosting features of Radagast, Wizard of Wilds.

Radagast offers a somewhat different flavor of bird-themed commander. Without white, you're losing a bunch of buffs that are bird or flying-specific, but with green, you can replace them with other buffs that don't really care about creature type. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:You'll need to focus on ramp to ensure you're casti𝓀ng spells with a mana value🌼 of five or greater to get the most 2/2 bird tokens you can.

10 Akim, The Soaring Wind ꩲ

Birds Hit Twice

There are lots of ways to make a lot of bird tokens; Migratory Route, Emeria Angel, and Battle Screech all come to mind. But Akim doesn't 🐈re🍸ally care what sort of tokens you make. Just so long as you're making tokens, Akim will keep making 1/1 white birds. And then it'll give all your tokens double strike. It's a win-win with this bird dinosaur!

With Akim, your focus will be on making bird tokens and then bufꦫfing those tokens to the point where you'll have an unstoppable double-striking army. Access to red also provides you with some interesting options for direct damage.

9 Tawnos, The Toymaker 🍸

Even A Mechanical Bird Flies

Yes, Tawnos is technically making artifacts, but thos𒉰e copies he makes are still Birds in addition to being artifacts, so you're still on theme for a bird deck. Whatever buffs you w🦋ant for birds will buff your army of mechanical flying tokens.

Tawnos changes the bird strategy yet again to have a more artifact-c🃏entered flavor. With plenty of artifacts in play, you can try for an affinity strategy like Broodstar, or you can more directly harvest your toys with something like Combine Chrysalis. Or you can jus𓆉t keep your toys and buff then with something like Vanquisher's Banner.

8 Esior, Wardwin▨g Familiar 🤡

Never Found A Better Partner

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Thanks to its partner keyword, Esior is a potential commander who fits in with a lot of different strategies. Regardless of who you partner with Esior, it gives you✱r commanders a bit of protection by making all spe🐟lls targeting your commanders cost three mana more.

Ah, but who to partner with Esior? The obvious choice is Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker, but we'll talk more about Ishai later. Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa makes a great pairing as he makes your bird army tricky to block. Siani, Eye of the Storm is another good choice, although this limits you to just blue Birds. Radiant, Serra Archangel isn't bad, or Ravos, Soultender for some graveyard recursi🔯on. There are a lot of options with Esior.

7 Gwaihir, Greatest Of The Eagle♍s

The Wind-lord

This massive Bird Noble might seem a bit redundant in a Bird deck, but has some neat versa🐬tility 🔥that other Bird commanders might lack. Anytime Gwaihir attacks you can give another attacking creature flying for the turn. If you're in a Bird Kindred deck you likely won't need this, but it can help your occasional non-flying creature get some damage in.

If you happen to gain three or more li෴fe at the start of each turn, Gwaihir makes a 3/3 B🌃ird creature token. This triggers on each end step, not just your own, so with the right setup, you can create three more Bird tokens before your next turn with Gwaihir out.

6 Ishai, Ojuꦉtai Drag⛄onspeaker

Get Those Counters

Ishai makes a great partner for Esior, but you could consider any of the other partners that would make Esior happy. Honestly, you can pair anyone you want with Ishai, a🌃s this bird monk works just fine on its own.

In a multiplayer format like Commander, people are going to cast a lot of spells, and they're all going to make Ishai bigger. Eventually, you'll have a giant flying bird capable of taking out opponents with one scratch of its giant talons. You could also take aꦫdvantage of those +1/+1 counters in more subtle ways, depending on who Ishai de🍷cides to partner with.

5 Kangee, Aerie Keep🤪er

A True Lord

Kangee's back, and for his second appearance on this list, he's providing a huge boost to your army of birds. When he comes into play, pay two generic and then X, with X becoming the number feather counters that Kangee comes into play. For each fꦑeather counter Kangee has, all Birds (including Kangee) get +1/+1.

This Kangee can potentially turn your squadron of 1/1 birds into a flying army of destruction. The key here is to have enough mana to cast Kangee at a premium. Decks with Kangee, Aerie Keeper will need to focus on their ramp꧟, with plenty of mana rocks and other methods of getting land into play and producing mana.

4 ꦅ Kastral, The Windcrested 🌱

Birds Of A Feather

A combat-oriented𝓡 Bird commander fit for the current age of Magic, Kastral, the Windcrested might be a bit more expensive to play than other Bird commanders, but has some powerful combat tricks to justify it🤪. Anytime one or more Birds deal combat damage to a player you get to pick one:

• Take Bird from your hand or graveyard and put it on the battlefield with a finality counter.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each Bird you control.
• Draw a card.

Even if you're swinging through with just a single 1/1 Bird each turn, you'll keep generating value each turn, either through board presence or card draw. Since you're in blue and white you have access to some control pieces as well, giving you the freedom to play h🎶owever you like.