Birds & Elves! (Budget Aggro)

Standard Aggro Budget GW (Selesnya) GWU (Bant)

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Creature (16)

• 3x Dryad Militant
• 4x Gladecover Scout
• 3x Judge's Familiar
• 3x Suntail Hawk
• 3x Wasteland Viper

Land (20)

• 8x Forest
• 8x Plains
• 4x Selesnya Guildgate

Enchantment (24)

• 2x Alpha Authority
• 3x Divine Favor
• 4x Ethereal Armor
• 4x Forced Adaptation
• 2x Oath of the Ancient Wood
• 4x Rancor
• 2x Rest in Peace
• 3x Unflinching Courage

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This is a budget aggro deck centered around Ethereal Armor and the reprinting of Suntail Hawk. The goal of this deck is to overwhelm your opponents with weak creatures early game, and drop enough enchantments to keep your threats viable into mid-game.

The build is mostly straightforward. With the exception of Dryad Militant which drops a 2/1 for flexible mana, every creature I included has a significant advantage to receiving a healthy dose of enchantment steroids. Both Suntail Hawk and Judge's Familiar have fly to benefit them; Wasteland Viper comes packing deathtouch; and Gladecover Scout has hexproof already built in.

I'm iffy about both Rest in Peace and Oath of the Ancient Wood. Rest in Peace is entirely situational, but even if it does nothing, the extra enchantment for 2 mana could help out Ethereal Armor. The Oath's got some obvious synergy with the amount of enchantments I'm packing, but the CMC of 3 might be a setback.

Let me know if you have any suggestions, but please keep in mind that this is a budget-conscious deck!

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 2 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.43