UPDATE: THIS IS A BAD DECK. MONO AIR IS REALLY FRIGGIN HARD TO MAKE WORK. I took it apart :(

INTRO:

Hello everyone! Thanks for reading. Do you like drawing cards? I sure do. As much as I don't regret abandoning MTG, I sure miss drawing lots of cards. I came up with the idea for this deck because I was tired of not having cards in my hand during mid-late game in your average game of Sorcery. So I decided I wanted to draw ALL of the cards and drown my opponent in card advantage. I'm aware that [[Deathspeaker]] is really good with Air and Earth, but I wanted a mono element deck to not worry about threshold. I'll have another primer for my Air and Earth [[Deathspeaker]] deck soon! I'm curious to see which is actually better!

WHAT IT DO?:

[[Grandmaster Wizard]] seemed like a good place to start, and is really the foundation of the entire deck. How can I abuse this ability as much as possible? That's what I'm trying to do. [[Deathspeaker]] seems the best Avatar to accomplish this! Flood the board with powerful Genesis (and non-Genesis) minions, draw lots of cards, gain value and card advantage by playing things from our cemetery, and win the game with persistent board presence and game ending minions and magics!

This is my attempt at a competitive deck, but there will be notable exclusions due to prices of paper cards. I'm not willing to spend 200$ on a single card! [[Ring of Morrigan]], I'm looking at you. So if you see something that you think would fit in the deck, you're probably right, but it might be not included because of money.

NOTABLE GENESIS CARDS AND COMBOS:

-I'm putting into the deck all of the really good Genesis abilities in Mono Air. The aforementioned [[Grandmaster Wizard]] and his protegé [[Apprentice Wizard]], drawing us ALL THE CARDS. Place them on [[The Geistwood]] for double the fun! The two wizards function as annoying spellcasters for our suite of Magics, but mostly they just gum up the board and serve as defenders that we can get extreme value from. Our opponent is wasting their turns killing these things while we continually gain card advantage.

-[[Sisters of Avalon]] let us dig through our deck faster, pitching cards we don't need at the time or would like to cast for value from the cemetery later. If we have no spells in hand, the Sisters are just a better [[Apprentice Wizard]], letting us draw a card for one fewer mana.

-[[Skeleton Mage]] lets us cast our Magics from BOTH cemeteries, and since everyone seems to be running air as a support element these days, the likelihood that we can cast magics from both cemeteries is relatively high.

-[[Screamer]] is forced movement on a 3 power body, and the best art in Gothic. What's not to love? 😍

-[[Archangel Gabriel]] is not as powerful as some of his brothers in arms, but he's still very good. 4 power with Ward and Airborne, plus he draws us a card? AMAZING. Since we're in Mono Air we don't have to worry about this threshold cost.

-[[Legion of Gall]] say screw you and your collection! Goodbye [[Toolbox]] and [[Silver Bullet]]! 5 power Airborne is pretty messed up as well.

-[[Master Necromancer]] does a pretty good impression of a certain other Avatar....5 mana, 6 power, 5 bodies?!? Yes please.

-[[Puppet Master]] is an interesting one that I'm unsure will remain in the deck as I haven't been able to play with it a lot yet. It combos REALLY well with [[Spore Sprouts]] and [[Summoning Sphere]]. Time will tell if this remains in the deck, because casting him from the cemetery with our Avatar's ability does nothing!

-[[Riddle Sphinx]] is both fun, flavorful, and in my opinion, an underrated card. It's a 4 power Airborne minion that draws you a card! Exactly what we want.

-[[Bane of Aventis]] Hey there, that's a nice [[Sacred Stag]] you have. I'll take it!

NOTABLE NON-GENESIS MINIONS:

-I have found that some of the minions in Air with Genesis aren't as impactful as I would like, so instead I decided to run some very impactful minions that are aggressive/versatile/powerful enough to include despite their lack of Genesis abilities. For this reason, running [[Book of the Dead]] can lead to some really awesome inevitability with ALL of our minions, including the ones without Genesis.

-[[Sturmgeist]]: Aggressive, Airborne and with free movement and striking bundled in. Incredible art to back it up!

-[[Gyre Hippogriffs]] Airborne+Charge ends games. Gadu Duaso going really hard with this one!

-[[Skirmishers of Mu]] What an incredible minion! Extremely versatile in shutting down 3 power or lower minions, and lets you smash into [[Lord of Lies]] with your [[Screamer]] in order to trade up tremendously. A real pain in the ass to fight against.

-[[Witherwing Hero]] This card I'm unsure about yet, as I have yet to have the opportunity to play it. Theoretically, it should allow me to defend all of my 3 power or less minions at the same location, even while tapped. Returning these minions to hand to re-use their abilities seems pretty good. But in reality, will my opponents just attack the site itself, forcing me to defend and therefore bypassing the Hero's ability? I need to actually be able to play with this card to find out. At the very least it's a 4 power airborne, so that's not nothing!

-[[Nimbus Jinn]] What do we do with all of those cards we draw? Discard them all to kill our opponent, of course! The likelihood of discarding 3+ cards a turn for 9+ damage is low, but a [[Lightning Bold]] stapled to a 4 power airborne minion is still pretty good! Turn that useless late-game [[Mix Aer]] into damage! Dream scenario: While I'm on Death's Door, attack your Avatar for 4 damage with the Jinn. Discard a [[Grandmaster Wizard]] to deal 3 damage to it. Cast the Wizard from the Cemetery for free due to [[Deathspeaker]]'s ability, draw three more cards. Discard those three cards for an extra 9 damage to your Avatar, for a total of 16 damage for the turn! Neat.

ARTIFACTS:

-[[Mix Aer]] Normally I would only play one, but since we're mono Air and we draw lots of cards, mana acceleration really plays into that strategy well.

-I don't need to say anything else about [[Toolbox]] that you don't already know, right?

-[[Char Omphalos]] Same as above. They're all very powerful! If you have [[Dank Omphalos]] as well, I wouldn't hesitate to run it. Mine is in another deck, so it's not on the list.

-[[Book of the Dead]] You may have to take a turn off from adding power to the realm, but it's probably worth it! This provides so much inevitability. Hopefully we can accelerate into casting this AND something from your cemetery in the same turn.

MAGICS:

-[[Arcane Barrage]] What's not to love? X spells are awesome, this is so versatile and so deadly. This can remove huge threats, lots of small minions, and end games. We have tons of spellcasters as well to cast it from dangerous angles.

-[[Blink]] This is extra movement, and just as importantly, it draws you a card. NEVER RUN OUT OF STEAM!! Casting this with our [[Skeleton Mage]] feels particularly good.

-[[Disenchant]] I might want to add room for another one of these mainboard, there are a lot of nasty artifacts and aura's running around.

-[[Gift of the Raven]] Turns any minion into [[Daperyll Vampire]]. Pretty sweet, and again, it DRAWS A CARD.

-[[Lightning Bolt]] You know it, you love it.

-[[Magic Missiles]] Poor man's [[Arcane Barrage]] that can be cast from [[Skeleton Mage]].

-[[Feast for Crows]] Our only cemetery hate in the deck! Cemetery hate is a weakness for this deck, both in defense and in offense. Other people running cemetery hate in anticipation of [[Archimago]] really slows down our gameplan as well. In addition, being in Mono Air we don't have a lot of options for dealing with the cemetery shenanigans of others. Please leave a comment if you know about a card that accomplishes this that I'm missing!

-[[Grapple Shot]] and [[Whirling Blades]] C'mon.

SITES:

-[[Accursed Tower]], [[Dark Tower]], [[Gothic Tower]] Everything comes out a turn early! Turn 1 [[Summoning Sphere]] into Turn 2 [[Sturmgeist]]? Yes please. Seriously these sites are crazy at Ordinary.

-[[Beacon]] You know what goes really well with card draw? MORE MANA.

-[[City of Glass]] More acceleration please!

-[[Cloud City]] "This deal keeps getting worse all the time!" But seriously, free movement.

-[[Dark Alley]] Stealth is really good, yo.

-[[Dread Thicket]] Undefendable attacks are super sweet.

-[[Fields of Phyxis]] Stop your cool sites from doing their cool stuff.

-[[Mirror Realm]] The possibilities are nigh endless!

-[[Observatory]] Card selection is great!

-[[Open Mausoleum]] More rectangles on the board=Card advantage

-[[Perilous Bridge]] This really doesn't hamper us, mostly our opponents. We have a lot of airborne stuff and a lot of stuff that doesn't need to move, such as the wizards.

-[[Spore Sprouts]] The aforementioned combo with [[Puppet Master]] is pretty sweet. Also lets you place your Spellcasters strategically for a kill.

-[[The Geistwood]] Double up those triggers, babyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

-[[The Manor at Daperyll Hill]] Easy to meet the threshold requirements for this in Mono Air, and we can use our [[Screamer]] to force things into it.

-[[Updraft Ridge]] Let's us keep our Airborne minions alive and attack with swift justice.

-[[Watchtower]] I heard [[Morgana le Fay]] is a really good card. This common site says otherwise.

-[[Wizard's Den]] says draw a card.

-[[Wuthering Heights]] This site is insane, perhaps you've heard? Free movement that can be use offensively or defensively.

COLLECTION:

-The collection is your pretty standard stuff to combat a variety of types of decks. AKA, more removal and teleporting! I'm not going to go over all of them, just point out that [[Murder of Crows]] is really good against all of those pesky [[Necromancer]]s running around.

WEAKNESSES:

-I already talked a little bit about it, but CEMETERY HATE. Also being unable to interact with an opponent's cemetery.

That's the deck. HAVE FUN DRAWING CARDS

Mono Air Draw

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