The heavy hitters are expensive, so
Soul Warden
and
Windborn Muse
will come out first to buy time with life and taxes. If you can get
Keeper of the Nine Gales
and
Tradewind Rider
out, use them to bounce any problematic permanents.
Use
Plea for Guidance
to find the enchantments you need.
Get an
Orim's Prayer
and an
Intruder Alarm
before you cast
Dovescape
and lock things down.
At this point, if you can get
Guile
into play, just cast any other non-creature spell. When you do, it will be countered by
Dovescape
, which triggers
Guile
's ability. Cast the copy for free, which will be countered by
Dovescape
... again, triggering
Guile
. Keep casting and countering your own copies of this spell ad nauseum, creating an amount of birds that would make Hitchcock jealous.
While this is going on, you can use your
Keeper of the Nine Gales
and
Tradewind Rider
in between all this to bounce EVERYTHING back up to everyone's hands.
Here's a better, step-by-step explanation as to what happens:
- Cast any non-creature spell.
- This spell is countered by
Dovescape
AND birds are generated equal to that spell's CMC. These birds trigger
Intruder Alarm
and untaps all creatures.
- In response to this, you can tap your recently-summoned birds for
Tradewind Rider
and
Keeper of the Nine Gales
to return permanents to opponents' hands.
-
Dovescape
's effect triggers
Guile
's ability, which lets you copy the spell and play it without paying its mana cost.
- The copied spell is countered by
Dovescape
AND birds are generated. These birds trigger
Intruder Alarm
and untaps all creatures again.
- In response to this, you can now re-use your
Tradewind Rider
s and
Keeper of the Nine Gales
to bounce things.
- Keep doing this to return everything you don't like, including lands, to owners' hands.
And, during all this madness, if you have a
Soul Warden
out, that's infinite life.
If other players like the idea of trading their own spells for birds, you can shut this down with
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
. Boost your own birds with Elesh Norn as well as
Thistledown Liege
to give them +2/+2 (as they are both white and blue creatures).
If you need to get any spells out yourself, bounce your own
Dovescape
, do what you need to do, then put it back down again.
