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The Lord of the Eagles
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A 9-mana 8/8 flash flier that discounts itself by your fliers' total power — in a birds-and-eagles deck it can arrive shockingly early, at instant speed, as an ambush blocker. A finisher for evasive decks.
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Play around this
Late game against blue with lots of open mana and fliers on board: an 8/8 flash blocker can appear mid-combat.
Gameplay notes
Count your fliers' power before the turn you plan it. Flash means you can hold it as a combat trick: block-and-kill an attacker they thought was safe.
Key synergies
Kicked Eagles makes 4/4 fliers — each one discounts the Lord by 4, often letting him land the very next turn for two or three mana.
Eagle's Rescue gives a creature flying while adding 2 power, increasing the total flying power used to reduce The Lord of the Eagles' cost by three.
Velvetwing Butterflies contributes two flying power toward The Lord of the Eagles' cost reduction while remaining a useful evasive threat on its own.
Long Lake Nuisance contributes three flying power, reducing The Lord of the Eagles to six mana, while its recruit trigger helps maintain resources as the evasive deck builds toward its finisher.
Ravenhill Flock's flying power discounts The Lord of the Eagles, and every card drawn grows the Flock and increases that discount further, potentially making the Lord dramatically cheaper.
Another flier contributing power to the discount while attacking in the air alongside him.
Both cards support a draw-go plan: you can hold mana for Thranduil's Decree, then flash in The Lord of the Eagles at the opponent's end step if they never cast a permanent worth stealing.
The Bird's flying power reduces The Lord of the Eagles' cost by one before threshold and by two after threshold, while costing only one mana to deploy from exile.
Old Thrush is a cheap flier that immediately contributes one power to the cost reduction, while its land search helps ensure the deck keeps making land drops toward casting The Lord of the Eagles.