For the Ancestors For the Ancestors is a nice way to support a typal strategy in green, allowing you to draw many cards regardless of your battlefield
Maybe Im just too much a sucker for powerful synergies, but flooding the board with tokens early to get paid off by either Jeskai Ascendancy or Howl of the Horde into Stoke the Flames (with an honorable mention to Obelisk of Urd that sadly will only buff one type of token) a turn or two later sounds like something that should easily have enough raw power to hang with other Standard decks
This is a concept that applies almost exclusively to the Commander format

Table of Contents show The Deck Mockingbird | Illustration by Aurore Folny Commander (1) Creature (33) Mockingbird Judge's Familiar Healer's Hawk Birds of Paradise Gilded Goose Sazh's Chocobo The Goose Mother Ambrosia Whiteheart Watcher of the Spheres Esior, Wardwing Familiar Ledger Shredder Plumecreed Escort Jubilant Skybonder Aven Mindcensor Jackdaw Savior Aven Interrupter Empyrean Eagle Keeper of the Nine Gales Warden of Evos Isle Owlbear Cub Traveling Chocobo Derevi, Empyrial Tactician Roaming Throne Emeria Angel Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker Hermes, Overseer of Elpis Sazh Katzroy Kangee, Sky Warden Kastral, the Windcrested Summon: Fat Chocobo Tawnos, the Toymaker Bartz and Boko Gwaihir the Windlord Sorcery (9) Chocobo Kick Farseek Gysahl Greens Nature's Lore Rampant Growth Three Visits Cultivate Airborne Aid Raise the Palisade Instant (10) Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Swan Song Dazzling Denial Counterspell Heroic Intervention Winged Portent Beast Within Flurry of Wings Perch Protection Enchantment (6) Soulcatchers' Aerie Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo Beastmaster Ascension Felidar Retreat Murmuration Kindred Discovery Artifact (6) Sol Ring Arcane Signet Herald's Horn Patchwork Banner Bident of Thassa Chocobo Racetrack Land (35) Bountiful Promenade Breeding Pool Brokers Hideout Canopy Vista Command Tower Dreamroot Cascade Exotic Orchard Flooded Strand Forest x3 Glacial Fortress Hallowed Fountain Hinterland Harbor Island x3 Misty Rainforest Overgrown Farmland Path of Ancestry Plains x3 Prairie Stream Rejuvenating Springs Reliquary Tower Restless Anchorage Sea of Clouds Seaside Citadel Seaside Haven Spara's Headquarters Sunpetal Grove Temple Garden Three Tree City Windswept Heath This Choco-led build leans into two things: flocks of flying creatures and ramping hard for landfall

Discard was an archetype that many were excited about coming into Rise of the Floodborn and, when building that list, this pairing of inks just makes sense
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