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Birdfolk

White–Blue (WU)

Mix flyers with useful ground creatures; Birds improve the creatures that cannot fly while air attacks finish the game.

Designed52.9% game win · 20,258 games · -1.7 vs 54.6% average · Premier Draft, Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands ↗
Mode

How it wins

Mix flyers with useful ground creatures; Birds improve the creatures that cannot fly while air attacks finish the game.

Early
Develop mana and an early creature or answer.
Middle
Rabbit and its offspring give Mentor ground targets for counters. Later flying creatures keep adding counters to those targets.
Finish
Mix flyers with useful ground creatures; Birds improve the creatures that cannot fly while air attacks finish the game.

What it needs

Commit when useful cards in both colors keep arriving and the support for this plan is present.

Four checks while you draft

  1. 1
    A playable curve

    Can this deck affect the board before its payoff arrives?

    Keep early creatures and interaction while assembling the specific support below.

  2. 2
    Support the plan

    Do I have enough cards that make this interaction happen?

    Rabbit and its offspring give Mentor ground targets for counters. Later flying creatures keep adding counters to those targets.

  3. 3
    Answers and a finish

    Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?

    Mix flyers with useful ground creatures; Birds improve the creatures that cannot fly while air attacks finish the game.

Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.

What to take next

You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.

Look for Intrepid Rabbit.

Rabbit and its offspring give Mentor ground targets for counters. Later flying creatures keep adding counters to those targets.

Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.

Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.

An all-flying board leaves Mentor without a legal counter target. Include ground creatures that still matter when drawn late.

The support is missing

Favor castable creatures and interaction if narrow support does not arrive.

Signals to watch
  • Repeated access to Intrepid Rabbit, Pileated Provisioner, Knightfisher is better evidence than one gold card.

Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.

Don’t
Check the support

An all-flying board leaves Mentor without a legal counter target. Include ground creatures that still matter when drawn late.

Best commons & uncommons

17Lands ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.

Bombs in these colors

17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 100-instance minimum

Cards for this pair

Worked turns

1 examples

Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.

Put the pieces together

  1. Rabbit and its offspring give Mentor ground targets for counters. Later flying creatures keep adding counters to those targets.
  2. An all-flying board leaves Mentor without a legal counter target. Include ground creatures that still matter when drawn late.

Adapt the plan to your format

One-pickSealed
Three Play Boosters per player; one card per pick. Premier statistics are recorded Arena games, not a prediction for your table.Start from the cards you opened. Favor a complete curve, interaction and castable threats over forcing the draft theme.
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