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The Eagles Are Coming!
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Two-mana instant that saves a creature from removal or a bad block by bouncing it — and kicked for 5 total mana it bounces your whole team and refunds each as a 4/4 flying Bird. The kicked mode is a game-ending blowout against sweepers or in a stalled board.
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Archetypes
Play around this
White + 2 open: removal can be dodged by bouncing the target. Late game with 5 open, a 'bad' chump-block setup may be converting into a flock of 4/4 fliers.
Gameplay notes
Returning creatures with enter-the-battlefield abilities rebuys those triggers. The Birds arrive at the NEXT upkeep — you are down a board until then, so don't cast it into open aggression.
Key synergies
Bard doubles token creation, so a kicked Eagles produces twice as many 4/4 fliers — usually lethal.
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.
After a kicked casting returns your nontoken Dwarves, replaying Fíli and each other Dwarf creates additional 2/2 Dwarf tokens, rebuilding a much wider board alongside the 4/4 Birds.
A kicked Eagles can create several 4/4 Birds at once, giving Eagle of the Great Shelf a large attack bonus from the expanded creature count and presenting an overwhelming flying attack.
The Eagles Are Coming! is a noncreature spell, and casting it kicked can trigger Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw six cards before discarding two, turning the expensive finisher into a major card-selection event.
Glamdring reduces the generic portion of The Eagles Are Coming!'s cost by the equipped creature's power, potentially reducing its kicked cost from six mana to only its three white mana.
Bouncing the Blacksmith rebuys its Axe-making trigger, and each bounced body comes back as a 4/4 flier when kicked.
Returning Gandalf to hand converts one card into repeated 3-damage enter-the-battlefield triggers.
The delayed Bird token enters on a new turn for Belladonna's resolution ladder, and a kicked casting can create several Birds together to reach her card-draw and team-counter rewards.
Returning Wood Elves to your hand lets you recast it for another Forest, while The Eagles Are Coming! also compensates for the tempo spent rebuying it by creating a 4/4 flying token.
Returning Old Thrush turns its small body into a delayed 4/4 flier, and replaying it later repeats the life gain and basic-land setup.
Returning Bard's Company protects it or resets it for another enters-the-battlefield Recruit trigger, and the delayed Bird token subsequently receives Company's anthem.
Returning Dáin protects him and lets you replay him to create another Axe and immediately attach it, while a kicked casting also replaces his bounced body with a 4/4 flier.
Bouncing and replaying the Garrison repeats its recruit trigger, while the Bird tokens and any recruited Human increase its power by expanding your creature count.
Returning Patient Instructor saves it or upgrades it into a delayed 4/4 Bird, then replaying it provides another recruit trigger and potentially another Human token.
Returning Dwalin lets you replay him for another hone counter on every Equipment you control, while a kicked casting also produces a 4/4 Bird for his bounced body.