Budget EDH: Jhoira, Wingcaller

I made this deck for a friend as a gift. He specifically requested Jhoira and dragons. I think I did it justice, given the card pool I had available for the deck. What do you think?

Most of the cards in the deck are cheap enough to either be cast outright or suspended, so the choice as to which cards to suspend is situational. Though this doesn't use Jhoira to her full potential, it makes the deck less reliant on her and less of a one trick pony.

Whenever possible, I opted for flying creatures over spells, just to keep the deck pleasantly aggressive. I wanted lots of attacking to happen, as that keeps with the spririt of a light-hearted dragon deck. Mulldrifter for 2? Yes, please.

Obviously, there are many better cards that could be added, were one to increase the budget. Here are some other cards that would be great:

* Steam Vents -- The mountain and island cycling cards could grab this from your deck. It's an auto-include if you have it. By the same token: Scalding Tarn.
* High Market -- This land would make it easier to sacrifice creatures that you've "temporarily" stolen. If this were added, an Expedition Map might be in order.
* Paradox Haze -- This is a natural fit for any Jhoira deck, though I found that it isn't as crucial to this deck as others. As the mana costs of the deck's cards would be increased, this card would become more important.
* Omniscience -- Pay 2 to suspend this, and soon the world will be your oyster.
* Eldrazi. Lots of Eldrazi. (... but they're not dragons.)

This deck was built as a midrange "aggro with tricks" deck. It's pretty self-explanatory, but here are a few tips anyway:

* Jhoira doesn't need haste to use her suspend ability. Hold off on playing her until you can suspend at least one card. Commander is usually a slow format, and it's never fun to play her and get nothing at all.
* Suspend expensive, hard-to-cast cards. If possible, suspend a card that destroys things on the board before or simultaneous with other suspended cards.
* If a card has its own suspend cost, you can use Jhoira's ability to suspend it for 2 mana with 4 counters instead of using the cost printed on the card.
* Draw extra cards whenever you can. Suspended cards usually take a few turns to arrive, so the more cards you can queue up, the better. Doom looms on the horizon!
* Use tricks to remove (or add) suspend counters situationally. If you remove the last counter from a suspended card, you get to play it immediately; you don't need to wait until the next upkeep. This makes cards like Rift Elemental so much fun!
* Save Clockspinning until you can pay the buyback cost. This card is not only useful for suspended cards; it can remove and add other types of counters as well. Use this for diplomacy, if you can.
* Don't forget that suspended creatures have haste when they come into play.
* Steal opponent's creatures for quick, unexpected attacks. Sacrifice the creature afterward, if you have a sacrifice outlet in play. No need to give them back; what fun would that be?
* If you can, also sacrifice your creatures in response to spells and effects that would destroy or steal them.
* As with all of the EDH decks that I build, I have included cards to destroy artifacts, to destroy permanents, and to exile graveyard cards. As this is a blue deck, I've also added a bit of counter magic. These effects are limited; save them for the right moments!

If you can appreciate ridiculous puns, then also be sure to milk this line of jokes for all that they're worth: Izzet Boilerworks? Why yes, it is Boilerworks.

• EDH
• Budget
• Suspend
• Dragon