Float like a Feather, Swing like a Tree

Commander / EDH Aggro RW (Boros) Spellslinger

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Land (32)

• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Furycalm Snarl
• 7x Mountain
• 11x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

Draw (10)

• 1x Ancestral Anger
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Blazing Crescendo
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Guided Strike
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Psychotic Fury

Removal (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Fall of the Hammer
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Impact Resonance
• 1x Invasion of Karsus  ^Flip
• 1x Reckless Rage
• 1x Soul's Fire
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wear / Tear

Creatures (15)

• 1x Akroan Crusader
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Leonin Lightscribe
• 1x Mavinda, Students' Advocate
• 1x Mirrorwing Dragon
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Phalanx Leader
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Tenth District Legionnaire
• 1x Urabrask  ^Flip
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Zada, Hedron Grinder

Artifacts (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Livewire Lash
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Thought Vessel

Buff (6)

• 1x Angelfire Ignition
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Brute Force
• 1x Samut's Sprint
• 1x Sudden Breakthrough
• 1x Titan's Strength

Commander (1)

Protection (15)

• 1x Angelic Intervention
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Blacksmith's Skill
• 1x Boon of Safety
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Fight as One
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sheltering Light
• 1x Take Up the Shield
• 1x Valorous Stance

Enchantments (1)

• 1x Aria of Flame

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Sideboard

Other (18)

• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Balduvian Rage
• 1x Balefire Liege
• 1x Burning Prophet
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Electrostatic Infantry
• 2x Emerge Unscathed
• 1x Explosive Entry
• 1x Favored Hoplite
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Kessig Flamebreather
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Scrollshift
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Swift Justice
• 1x Swiftblade Vindicator
• 1x Tethmos High Priest

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Maybeboard

Other (61)

• 1x Acrobatic Maneuver
• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Balduvian Rage
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Burning Prophet
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Electrostatic Infantry
• 1x Excise the Imperfect
• 1x Explosive Entry
• 1x Fabled Hero
• 1x Favored Hoplite
• 1x Feat of Resistance
• 1x Fiery Inscription
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Heal
• 1x Hero of the Nyxborn
• 1x Illuminator Virtuoso
• 1x Infuriate
• 1x Invasion of Karsus  ^Flip
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Otherworldly Journey
• 1x Precursor Golem
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Rosnakht, Heir of Rohgahh
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Scrollshift
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Swift Justice
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 2x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Take Up the Shield
• 1x Tenth District Legionnaire
• 1x Tethmos High Priest
• 1x Twinferno
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Urabrask  ^Flip
• 1x Vanguard of Brimaz
• 1x Vanquish the Horde
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Winds of Abandon

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Combat tricks galore!

I see 4 primary ways to build feather:

1. Guttersnipe and friends tempo/control

2. Creature buff aggro feat. +1/+1 counters and buff spells

3. feather beatdown disruption

4. Token swarm with board buffs

I can't figure out which variant I want this deck to be, so it's a bit of a value-heavy mish-mash of all the various archetypes in an effort to handle multiple types of threats. I assume this makes the deck weaker, but more playtesting should help me identify which route I want to lean toward.

I don't want to lean too far into guttersnipe and friends shenanigans because it's very low interactivity. I'm making a promise to myself to not play more than 3 guttersnipes, and as of now it's just Guttersnipe and Invasion of Karsus  

Creature buff is probably the fastest way to build the deck, but I'm wary of outpacing my meta too much, or losing the potential for games to go as long. (with the right draws, this variant of the deck could close out games as early as turn 4-5). It'd be focused on cards like Electrostatic Infantry, Swiftblade Vindicator, and Illuminator Virtuoso

Feather beatdown disruption is out of budget and frankly, also too annoying to play against for my opponents. This would involve things like Grand Abolisher, Archivist of Oghma, drannith magistrae and other miscellaneous cards whose goal is to reduce the effectiveness of your opponent's cards. Meanwhile you sit pretty with feather and swing for 3+ every turn. That said, if my opponent is playing heavy removal, I'm gonna have to default to this playstyle anyway so I like to keep it as an option.

Token swarm is the slowest of the bunch with the highest likelihood to be disrupted by removal, since most protections spells are single target. But the solution to that is to just have more threats.

Goldspan Dragon Storm-Kiln Artist are purposefully kept out of the deck since I think the treasure tokens can elevate the deck to a whole new level of irritating. If you want to win, those cards are auto-includes though. Probably Smothering Tithe as well.

If I ever end up with a Stoneforge Mystic, I'd probably put it in this deck

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 3 Rares 27 - 3 Uncommons 29 - 12 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.22
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Elephant 3/3 G, Monk 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 R, Treasure