Inniaz Hatebirds

Commander / EDH Casual Counterspell Flying Hatebears WU (Azorius)

Schauzeit

CardAdvantage (19)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Curiosity Crafter
• 1x Faerie Formation
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Tide Skimmer
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Windreader Sphinx
• 1x Winged Words

Tokens (10)

• 1x Battle Screech
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Emeria Angel
• 1x Faerie Formation
• 1x Midnight Haunting
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Skycat Sovereign
• 1x Spectral Procession
• 1x Spirit Bonds

Protection (3)

• 1x Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spirit Bonds

Interaction (18)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Hanged Executioner
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Hypnotic Sprite
• 1x Judge's Familiar
• 1x Lofty Denial
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Warkite Marauder

Ramp (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Warden of Evos Isle
• 1x Watcher of the Spheres

Wrath (3)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Time Wipe

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 11x Island
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 13x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Windbrisk Heights

Hatebird (7)

• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Reidane, God of the Worthy  ^Flip
• 1x Strict Proctor

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Maybeboard

Protection (1)

• 1x Jubilant Skybonder

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The Idea

An Inniaz, the Gale Force deck that is highly interactive and is based card advantage and preventing your opponents game plan.

I enjoy drawing cards, interacting with my opponents, and winning with small synergistic creatures instead of big haymakers. I think this deck reflects this well. The main idea is to play some flying tokens with cards like Spectral Procession, some birds that prevent your opponent from doing stuff like Hushbringer, and some birds that interact like Hypnotic Sprite. We win the game by having more resources than our opponents, or by destroying, countering and stealing their high-value targets.

Cutting Board

I decided against cards like Empyrean Eagle because they require a high commitment to the board to be good. With Inniaz, we require exactly three birds to grind out an advantage. I currently think more flyers would be a good idea, as all of them have additional value with Inniaz. I also might want to add another land or two. The first cards I would cut are:

• Future Sight: An incredibly powerful card, but requires some things to go well to be good and is a 5-mana investment

History

Dec 17, 2021

Cleaned up the Maybeboard.

Sevinne's Reclamation

The card's probably really good value / recursion and I want to try it out.

Cleansing Nova

Wrath to replace Hour of Revelation

Cuts

• Hour of Revelation: I really don't like this card with that much artifact ramp. The internet tells me this card is amazing, but at the moment I don't see it.
• Cartographer's Hawk: While a critical number of fliers is important, this card's ramp condition is too conditional and needing to recast it is too costly.

Jun 11, 2021

Cleaned up my Maybeboard to include cards that I actually would consider instead of just having cards that I own.

Jun 8, 2021

Midnight Haunting

I was really impressed by how much flash flyers mess with my opponents expectation on when Inniaz becomes relevant so I think this card is going to be great.

Windbrisk Heights

Should have been in the deck in the first place. Replaces 1x Plains.

Aura of Silence

I think slamming this down in the early game is worth the increased mana cost, especially since taxing is one of my game plans. Replaces Disenchant as it's effect is too similar. I still really like Disenchant and it might replace something else soon.

Curiosity Crafter

I love Coastal Piracy and this deck produces more tokens than I first thought.

Archon of Emeria

I want to try out more hatebirds and this deck can decently do stuff at instant speed. Kind of a non-bo with Future Sight, now that I think about it. Have to play with this one a bit to evaluate it.

Cuts

• Rally of Wings: Inniaz activated ability is enough to punch through a lot of damage in the end game.
• Sephara, Sky's Blade: Too expensive and we never want to pay the alternative cost because we almost always want to jam.
• Cleansing Nova: This deck is too non-recursive and too creature-heavy to want this many wraths.

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #10 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Counterspell 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Flying 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 1/1 W, Cat Bird 1/1 W, Elephant 3-3 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Spirit 1/1 W, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	Inniaz, the Gale Force, EDH Decks