MTG Salvation

hey everyone I wanted to make a wacky and a deck that not many would think of and boom it hit me what about a birds of prey deck and their handler so focuses around
Soraya the Falconer. Now to begin the concoction that is my birds of prey deck. It's a pretty cool and solid deck I think and fits the theme i was going for really well what do you all think, I'm always open to criticism on how it can be improved. The sub theme I wanted to go for was to use banding again since it's been forever since i've seen it active, and I also added a little bit of exalted as a back up plan if needed to this deck if need be.

Try getting your hands on Soulcatchers' Aerie and Soulcatcher for your deck if you want to go bird theme. Both extremely cheap on wallet.

wing shards? also, mirror entity if you are willing to off theme.

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What do you mean off theme? Mirror Entity is a falcon!

Its a Ninja Pirate Falcon!

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone I'm surprised I passed over Soulcatcher , and Soulcatchers' Aerie seems really cool, but it comes across as more of a sideboard card if my birds needed extra support. Wing shards is also a great card that I never thought of and is a good addition but again it to seems like a sideboard card also but still over all great. As for Mirror Entity it's been there since the beginning lol I guess it was overlooked XD. All these suggested are for sure great additions and i even added in the Soulcatcher swapping Aven Mindcensor into the Sideboard. Soraya is looking even more happy being around more of his feathered friends and keeping the theme going with the cards mentioned. I really appreciated getting more support for the deck and it goes to to show even birds of prey of friends in the magic community :D.

Besides Soraya, I also wanted to try a army of birds in w/u/g with Ragnaras the birds handler this time round going aggro fliers with regen with my leader to back them up and some other mechanics to add in to further the damaging flier army of the skies. As with my other flier deck I'm open to all kind of suggestions on how to make this better

Thoughts:

Spear of Heliod - buff + removal
Path of Bravery - buff + lifegain
Glint Hawk Idol - on-theme, and hard to remove
Emeria, the Sky Ruin - win the long game
#1 - Leonin Sun Standard - with so many evasive creatures, this will be an absolute beating

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Thoughts:

Spear of Heliod - buff + removal
Path of Bravery - buff + lifegain
Glint Hawk Idol - on-theme, and hard to remove
Emeria, the Sky Ruin - win the long game
#1 - Leonin Sun Standard - with so many evasive creatures, this will be an absolute beating

All of these cards are great additions to the deck, I honestly can't believe I passed over them.. I see that Leonin Sun Standard would prove a huge asset and seems like an auto include for sure.

Path of Bravery-I could really use the life gain portion and will most likely include this along side Sun Standard, Glint Hawk Idol, fits my theme really well and will be difficult to remove for sure but I'm on the fence about it tbh but i may still throw it in as a sideboard card.

The Spear is another I'm iffy about since I do have removal and enough buff abilities and only costing to i believe adding in for a 3 cmc will slow my play down on going on the offence as well as having the others only as 1 and 2 costs seem to fit more.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin-now this has a lot of utility with this deck and combos well with Soulcatcher, Soulcatchers' Aerie, providing me with a way to recycle creatures with Seaside Haven, activating Aerie giving my birds more power and providing card advantage as well or creating a big bomb in Soulcatcher itself.

I have a lot of options to consider to add in the ones that will seem to fit and which that won't, but either way these suggestions seem to have mas synergy and can't wait to try some these new additions out.

With the release of dragons it gave me access to new cards and a good secondary strategy in Assault Formation[/card, but it also gave me access to Aven Sunstriker[/card,Battle Mastery,Artful Maneuver[/card, Territorial Roc, and [card]Orator of Ojutai[/card. these are great additions imo to this avian arsenal and combined with suggested cards came up with a new build. Of course any criticism is welcome since after all I want to make this deck the best it can be :).

i once made an edh deck like this except i called it angry birds with Brion Stoutarm as the general

red opens up phoenixes and was alot of fun

Thats an interesting concept but just for some reason red isn't a color that appeals to me in the type of strategy I'm trying to go for. I appreciate the idea for sure though :)though if you have any ideas to go along with the theme i have going i'm always open for them the only one I got was the inclusion of blue sun's zenith by removing Into the Roil, since i realized the deck lacked card draw and having a recurring one is helpful imo.