Feather, Hot Take

Commander / EDH* RW (Boros)

Shitney

Lands with nice personalities (21)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 6x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Activate Sunforger (10)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Magnetic Theft
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Cuties (5)

• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Zada, Hedron Grinder

Find Sunforger (4)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

Sunforger (1)

• 1x Sunforger

Cast Sunforger (13)

• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Feather Spells (12)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Balduvian Rage
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Orim's Thunder
• 1x Psychotic Fury
• 1x Reckless Rage
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sheltering Light

Blood Moon (6)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Rest in Peace

Win (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Aurelia's Fury
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Treasonous Ogre

Commander (1)

Yeah (13)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Cool Lands (8)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Not Sunforger (2)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

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A quick throw together for my hot take on a Feather EDH, trying for as competitive as possible?

Some things: - At the time of making this I believed that Feather specifically could NOT interact favourably with flashback or similar effects, and so there are none in here. It's likely that should be the first thing I investigate going forward.

• With that in mind, and realising that this is playing R/W, I went with a relatively staxx-y swing, with mainstays of Rest in Peace and Blood Moon , but notably leaving out Stony Silence , as the deck wants to leverage some kind of Aetherflux Reservoir + Paradox Engine win, as that seems too make the most sense with spamming a bunch of low cost cantrip spells.

• On the note of the omission of artifact stax, we're going pretty hard on the mana rock thing, but the one thing I don't like about that is that they feel really awkward playing Mana Vault with a commander that costs all coloured mana, and a lot of spells that cost a single coloured mana. Maybe I'm just undervaluing the power level of the cards for pumping out our other stuff, but the idea is tempting me toward going full stax on this; and just using Feather as a card advantage engine to out-stax everyone; No lands, no graveyards, no artifacts. Worth considering again, as I worry the only way for R/W to compete in the format might be just to slow everyone else down to our level.

• With that, there's a couple of very Cute things in here, which may be the first real cuts to make including: Pyromancer's Goggles and Primal Amulet   as spell dupers. Also some odd ball effects like Mana Tithe and Lapse of Certainty or Reverberate amongst others, as our Red/White imitation of "interaction", and I'm not sure I'll "get 'em" with stuff and make col Sunforger plays; or if they're just super bad and better off with real synergy.

• Again, I ended up having in mind here that playing Red/White and trying to leverage Stax effects seemed to be the only way to go for the power level of cEDH if at all, and I ended up not wanting to play more synergistic cards like Tethmos High Priest or Akroan Crusader , because they aren't really helping us slow down the game too a pace that Red/White can keep up with, and we're doing better stuff to win. The exception to this is Monastery Mentor , but that's good enough I think. Skullclamp may now be worth cutting with this in mind.

• I ended up leaving out Mirrorwing Dragon but not Zada, Hedron Grinder mainly for the egregious cost of 5 over 4, but also the fact that Zada only amplifies our spells, and not our opponent's removal (not that it should matter with our protection spells).

• Finally, some of the notable big things that this deck definitely seems like it should be doing:

• • Aurelia's Fury + Feather, the Redeemed Orim's Thunder Reckless Rage - some cute control things we can do.
• • Smothering Tithe + Wheel of Fortune - Shout out to Rest in Peace here too.
• • Magnetic Theft + Sunforger - Allows us to hold up all kinds of silly interaction and "get 'em"
• • Blood Moon + Mana Crypt + Mountain - Magus of the Moon is also here for another creature for us to throw buffs at too.
• • Aetherflux Reservoir + Paradox Engine + Treasonous Ogre - probably the only way we win the game

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Aetherflux Reservoir + Paradox Engine Magnetic Theft + Sunforger Aurelia's Fury + Feather, the Redeemed Smothering Tithe + Wheel of Fortune Aetherflux Reservoir + Paradox Engine + Treasonous Ogre
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.27
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Monk 1/1 W, Treasure