So I recently built a EDH Birdemic deck. I had original had a 60 card casual version, which is actually pretty efficient. The idea is to cast a ton of cheap birds, get Soulcatcher, or Soulcatchers' Aerie in play, then cast something like Cataclysm to pump your feather counters and swing away with a beat stick.
Scaling it to EDH has been difficult, but also really fun. I chose Derevi, Empyrial Tactician as my commander so I'm open to ramp options, and I can run cards like Bower Passage and Bow of Nylea. I threw in a Dovescape for true birdemic potential. Overall it's just goofy and fun.
My LGS meta allows me to run Carnivorous Death-Parrot, and it's great cuz I can choose to "forget" the upkeep and let it die to pump Soulcatcher. If I find myself in a meta that doesn't allow the parrot, then I slot in Squadron Hawk, who's not terrible in singleton since he lets me reshuffle my deck for free, which is useful if I hate what I see with Spire Owl or Sage Owl.
Right now the deck needs more consistent draw, any idea?
With so much emphasis on birds and pumping them, have you considered Soraya the Falconer? That's a nice niche legend from Homelands that not only boons birds but can also give yours banding. Now, banding may seem complicated, but if you attack in a band, and the band gets blocked, you choose how the damage is dealt from your opponent's creatures (when you block with a band also). So you can redirect the damage to any birds you wanted to die thus pumping up other birds. Seems like a pretty neat thing to do. As for card draw, there are cards that go with your theme of dying birds: Fecundity, Inheritance, River Kelpie, and Skullclamp. Murder of Crows does the same thing with the added bonus of being a bird itself (though you would have to then discard a card afterwards). Then again you can just use broken drawing cards like Consecrated Sphinx, Mind Unbound, and Thought Reflection. Also, don't forget that changelings are also birds, technically. So using something like Mirror Entity and paying 0 for X means that you just killed all your birds - literally. That can be used for some combo enabling. Combining that with Faith's Reward is just delicious (or basically pulling a Faith's Reward after any board wipe, lol). If you want sac outlets that could be good also you should consider Carnage Altar, Greater Good, Life's Legacy, Momentous Fall, Vivisection, Phyrexian Altar, Ashnod's Altar, etc. Combined with the previously mentioned cards that let you draw when a creature dies it's very synergistic.
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Scaling it to EDH has been difficult, but also really fun. I chose Derevi, Empyrial Tactician as my commander so I'm open to ramp options, and I can run cards like Bower Passage and Bow of Nylea. I threw in a Dovescape for true birdemic potential. Overall it's just goofy and fun.
My LGS meta allows me to run Carnivorous Death-Parrot, and it's great cuz I can choose to "forget" the upkeep and let it die to pump Soulcatcher. If I find myself in a meta that doesn't allow the parrot, then I slot in Squadron Hawk, who's not terrible in singleton since he lets me reshuffle my deck for free, which is useful if I hate what I see with Spire Owl or Sage Owl.
Right now the deck needs more consistent draw, any idea?
3 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Suntail Hawk
2 Owl Familiar
2 Spire Owl
2 Carnivorous Death-Parrot
2 Storm Crow
2 Soulcatcher
2 Bay Falcon
2 Palace familiar
2 Zephyr Falcon
2 Sage Owl
2 Skyshroud Falcon
2 Augury Owl
3 Keeper of the Nine Gales
3 Roc Egg
3 Raven Familiar
3 Junk Diver
3 Cloudchaser Kestrel
3 Aven Mimeomancer
3 Warden of Evos Isle
3 Lieutenant Kirtar
4 Kangee, Aerie Keeper
4 Major Teroh
5 Wingmate Roc
6 Aven Brigadier
6 Glarecaster
Enchantments
2 Favorable Winds
2 Bower Passage
2 Soulcatchers' Aerie
3 Rhystic Study
3 Aura Shards
5 Asceticism
6 Dovescape
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Argivian Find
1 Enlightened Tutor
2 Regrowth
3x Wargate
3 Windfall
3 Dream cache
5 Timereversal
Tricks/Wraths/Removal
2 Reprisal
2 Simic Charm
2 Counterspell
2 Hindering Light
2x Biomass Mutation
3 Flurry of Wings
3 Krosan Grip
4 Divine Reckoning
4 Cataclysm
5 Spin into Myth
5 Fell the Mighty
Ramp
2 Rampant Growth
2 Farseek
3 Kodama's Reach
Artifacts
1 Skulclamp
1 Sol Ring
2 Howling Mine
3 Bow of Nylea
3 Chromatic Lantern
3 Commander's Sphere
0 Forest (4)
0 Plains (7)
0 Island (7)
0 Terramorphic Expanse
0 Hinterland Harbor
0 Seaside Haven
0 Temple Garden
0 Krosan Verge
0 Tranquil Thicket
0 Command Tower
0 Temple of Mystery
0 Evolving Wilds
0 Hallowed Fountain
0 Windswept Heath
0 City of Brass
0 Glacial Fortress
0 Secluded Steppe
0 Temple of the False God
0 Yavimaya Coast
0 Myriad Landscape
0 Bant Panorama
0 Azorius Chancery
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If you are willing to use cards with Birds in the Art, I'd Reccomend:
Sun Titan - the original Art
Plea for Guidance
swords to plowshares - Conspiracy
Soul of the Harvest
For Lands here are one with bird in the art.
Plains - mirage edition
forest - Onslaught
Island - Iceage
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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