"Sunbird's Invocation: Not just for the birds."

"Sunbird's Invocation: Not just for the birds."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

My friend Mark Pm'ed me the other day and asked if I already have this card. Probably a sleeper card that no one is really talking about at the moment and one look at it I understood the possibilities of what having this enchantment meant.

So Sunbird's invocation is a 6 mana enchantment that let's you do things with X. So what it wants is for you to cast the biggest possible spells that you could and see the magic happen! So let us say you cast the 8 mana CMC Gishath in your EDH deck  , the Sunbirds Invocation will now let you look at X cards from the top of your deck based on the spell you just cast(8 CMC in this case). So now that you have seen the next 8 cards of your deck  , you can now choose one of those 8 cards with a CMC 8 or less and then cast it for free! Free! Let that sink in for a moment. You just casted a monster and now here you are probably getting another monster of the same or less mana cost! I mean in EDH (which this card just really screams about) there are tons of creatures that I am sure you would enjoy casting for free.

And since this enchantment only has a single red in it this can easily be splashed in with other colors such as Gruul(R/G) and Izzet(U/B). In Izzet Colors imagine casting a Baral's expertise of 5 CMC , aside from the 4 mana CMC that will be free cast from the spell you also have a potential spell that can be cast for 5 CMC or less for free! Talk about a bargain! 3 spells in one! And I am sure that if you pull this kind of combo together it won't really be all that long before you start attracting the hate of all your opponents.  

So Invoke that Sunbird now! At your own risk of course. The only downside is the hate you will attract but hey if you win all the better right?