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Wingspan Mentor
Creature — Human Wizard
When this enters the battlefield, put a flying counter on target non-Human creature you control.
, : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with flying.
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thefiresoflurve on
[Needs Trimming] Blue Fliers Budget EDH
8 months ago
Hey there!
I would go for slimming down each category, rather than just creatures/control.
Some low drop creatures can be worth running in the right context, but some of yours can probably be cut: turns 1-2, I'd much rather be casting things like Ponder or Brainstorm to prepare for future turns than drop a Faerie Seer which isn't terribly impactful. Some of your low CMC creatures can stay, like Cloudfin Raptor which is an absolute beast, but if I were you I'd just playtest some of them and see what you like best.
There's no such thing as "too much card draw", as long as you don't deck out or die due to not doing other things that actually win you the game. A good thing to do in blue is make sure your card draw spells are instants, so you can hold up mana for a counterspell if you need it, then if your opponents change phases to their end steps without doing anything crazy, you can cast a Brainstorm / Deliberate.
Draining Whelk can be really good, depending on what you counter. It's a 6 drop Counterspell & 4/4 + flier in one card slot. Only downside is the steep CMC.
Some things you could trim: Wingspan Mentor - a bit slow and win-more: if you have enough creatures out for its counters to matter, you were probably dealing good damage without it.
Charix, the Raging Isle - same CMC as your commander, so you'll probably want to cast your commander instead 9/10 times you draw it.
Floodgate - as above, also you have better control options.
Sludge Monster - slow, not quite a fit here.
Thryx, the Sudden Storm - a bit better of a fit, but still not quite worth it.
Windstorm Drake - small toughness boost is not worth the cost.
Sphinx of Jwar Isle - sometimes it can be nice to know what's coming up next in your library, but this isn't worth the cost and top deck manipulation doesn't really have much synergy here.
You could cut a few of your worse counterspells: Intervene, Crypsis, Nullify.
lastly, with your average CMC, I think you could comfortably cut 4-5 Islands.
Hope that helps. Sorry for the wall of text, but I wanted to explain some of my reasoning on cuts and such.
GL, HF!
verse2wo on
The Crowening
3 years ago
Seller of Songbirds , Animal Sanctuary , Aven Wind Guide , Seaside Haven , Raven Wings , Pride of the Clouds , Soraya the Falconer , Soulcatchers' Aerie , Radiant Destiny , Vanquisher's Banner , Metallic Mimic , Jubilant Skybonder , Thunderclap Wyvern , Wingspan Mentor , Gravitational Shift , Beastmaster Ascension , and Archetype of Imagination
CriticalFailure on
4 years ago
Podkomorka: What tier would you consider Wingspan Mentor to be? This may be personal bias, but it seems to be at least a tier 2 deck. What do you think?
