Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles

Gwaihir is a flying lord with a life-gain payoff engine. Your core gameplan is to swing in with flying creatures while using life-gain effects to trigger Gwaihir's end-step ability, creating a token army of 3/3 flying Birds. Each token echoes Gwaihir's flying-grant ability, turning your whole team into evasive threats. You want to lean into white's life-gain toolkit—cards like Soul Warden, Archangel of Thune, and Righteous Cause that trigger passively, letting you hit the 3-life threshold almost every turn.

The deck wins through a combination of flying evasion and token swarm. Once you start generating Bird tokens, you'll quickly establish air superiority that's hard to block. The flying-grant effect smooths out your team's evasion, especially on non-flying creatures if you want to include some payoffs. Your win condition is pure combat damage: by turns 7–9, you'll have a critical mass of flyers that seal the game. The strategy is straightforward enough for casual tables but rewards careful sequencing of life-gain triggers.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.