Tribal Birds EDH

Storm herd would make sense, but they do not make Birds unfortunately (yes, i know what you're thinking. i could test it later on when i come to my senses)

Gravitational shift is a weird argument on its own since its giving more offence while giving less defense. Serra Aviary can give both the creatures and the tokens a bit more strength to survive single target spells. I can't say they will live through board wipes, but they can survive Anger of the Gods lol.

Yeah, this deck might need a bit more card draw if it wants to be consistant, ill see what i can move around.

I am glad I was able to give you an idea for your deck! I am more than happy to help you with any other decks if needed :)

I'm a huge fan of staying on theme, so if you don't want to run Storm Herd because they're not birds then I can't blame you a bit. Any jackass can cram 60 goodstuff cards into a deck and win a game; setting up rules for yourself and then winning while playing within that framework is 1000x cooler.

I like Grav Shift because it shuts down some decks totally. Edric decks filled with swarm critters, goblin and elf tribal, token decks, etc. all suddenly do zero damage without anthems in play, where as Serra Aviary helps all fliers so it's going to help some token decks, some Edric-type decks, etc. Plus it's like a fifty cent card or whatever, so it's easy to playtest and scrap if you think it doesn't work out. I'm a huge fan of it, though, at least against the decks I see a lot.

You could also try Crackdown. It's going to effect very few of your creatures, and it's going to wreck some other deck.

Yeah, its fun when deck building to create a challenge for yourself to make it more interesting. I managed to build a Jhoria deck without Time magic or Eldrazi (because every Jhoria deck HAD time magic and Eldrazi). I always take time to research up cards that people might have forgotten and implement them in a deck that could work well with whatever General thats out there.

Honestly I forgot Serra Aviary had "all" in its text. Its makes Gravitational Shift so much better lol. yes it can weaken all of the tribal decks, but then again, tribal decks are ticking time bombs, it delays the inevitable (but it does its thing. Its all fun and games until Craterhoof hits the field).

It would affect my creatures, but then again, I have Derevi. So the mechanic of Crackdown would not affect me as hard as you might think. But then again, it will paint a very huge target on my face telling my opponents "Hey, this guy is a jerk, lets take him out first." I will still tread the waters and play test it though to see how people will react to it.

I do agree on Beastmaster ascension, since not many people would try to mass produce flyers... Unless they run bitterblossom.. Damn faeries.

Lurking Preadators can work in this deck and its not a bad idea, I will play test with it and get back to you on that

The temptation of Dovescape is always there for this deck. I want to put it in this deck, but then i have to weigh that with the value of friendship and determine if its worth it (It is).

Aerie Worshippers would be really good, the problem is getting her to tap in order to get the inspired trigger. I would also have to pay mana just to get that 2/2 bird when i can just play better birds that cost 3

I will be more than happy to look at what you have come up with, and if you want i am more than happy to update it with you to fit the current commander play styles that are seen these days :D

IMO to run Dovescape you need to have a nuke on the field, and this isn't a deck with nukes. I run it in Bruna Light of Alabaster, but when I drop it I do so when Bruna is on the field with a handful of enchantments on her, hitting for 9 a swing with shroud, protection from creatures, lifelink and drawing me cards each turn. At that point I can afford to have the game turn into archenemy as everyone attacks me with the fistfull of doves they make. I most other situations it's going to result in you just get gang beaten out of the game.

Aerie Mystics is a nice bird to run in Bant to protect your dudes

You gave the perfect example as to why i should not run Dovescape lol. Don't get me wrong, its a good card and has many possibilities, but I am more of a player that wants everyone to have fun and have a political debate of who should get who where, rather than everyone gank up on one person. Playing like that kind of takes the fun out of the game and develops a sour mood throughout the game depending on how far it is into it.

It is a nice bird, but the one problem it has is that if you give your creatures shroud, you cannot target them with Derevi's triggered ability.

Bear in mind it's an activated ability though, so you don't have to use it. It's not the kind of thing you'd be just turning on each turn. If you don't need it don't use it and let Derevi do her thing, but if someone tries to Doom Blade a creature, activate it and the Blade fizzles. Having the option to fizzle any targeted removal is super useful imo.

Alternatively you could just run something like Asceticism, which is not only useful in it's own right but it has the ability to regen stuff baked in. Plus it's hexproof and not shroud so it'll never affect Derevi.

Since you're running Sylvan Library you could also run Abundance. It's a useful card it it's own right, but if you get both down at the same time it lets you keep all three cards you draw with Sylvan Library at no life cost. I no longer run it in my Sigarda deck with Sylvan because I had to cut something, but there were times it was a really powerful combo.