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Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets
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A strong value Adventure that can recover a spell while filling the graveyard, then supplies a cheap flyer that often becomes a 2/2. It needs a healthy instant-and-sorcery count to avoid whiffing, but its ceiling is excellent for Limited.
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Gameplay notes
Cast Speak Secrets before deploying the creature whenever tempo allows, since milling four both finds value and helps turn on threshold. Decks with too few instants and sorceries risk whiffing, though the mill still improves the creature side.
Key synergies
Speak Secrets puts four cards into the graveyard and only returns one instant or sorcery, leaving other milled artifacts or spells available for Bilbo to cast when he attacks.
Speak Secrets immediately adds four cards toward threshold, helping both creatures receive their graveyard-based power boosts; Master's Councillors can then continue self-milling to finish enabling threshold.
Casting Speak Secrets triggers Bothersome Noisemaker to amass Goblins 1, then it can put another instant or sorcery into your hand to provide a future Noisemaker trigger.
Galion turns the inexpensive flying Bird into a base 4/4 evasive attacker, and its threshold bonus applies on top of that new base to make it a 5/5.
Speak Secrets mills four cards to stock a creature for Gathering of Darkness to return; if Gathering itself is milled, Speak Secrets can instead put it back into your hand.
Speak Secrets can mill Plunder the Trollshaws into the graveyard, where it remains available through flashback and draws two cards instead of one; alternatively, Speak Secrets can return it to hand.
Casting Speak Secrets triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw two and discard two, while Speak Secrets itself recovers an instant or sorcery and fills the graveyard, making both cards effective engines for the same spell-heavy graveyard strategy.
After threshold, the Bird is a cheap evasive 2-power carrier that makes instant and sorcery spells cost up to two less through Glamdring, while Speak Secrets helps keep your hand stocked with spells to exploit that reduction.
The cards sent to the graveyard by Riddles help reach threshold, upgrading Most Decrepit Old Bird into a larger evasive threat.
Speak Secrets rapidly fills your graveyard toward seven cards, helping The Master of Lake-town draw an additional card when it dies while also enabling the Bird's own threshold bonus.
Speak Secrets can mill Tidings of War into the graveyard, enabling its flashback mode to amass Goblins 3 rather than 1 while still retrieving another instant or sorcery.
If Speak Secrets mills Silvan Reveler, a later Landfall trigger can return the Reveler to hand, reducing the normal cost of self-milling a creature.
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.
Speak Secrets can mill Moment of Glory into the graveyard, turning an otherwise missed card into an available flashback anthem while retrieving a different instant or sorcery from the milled cards.