Or, you know, you could splash out $20 and grab yourself Gisela, the Broken Blade, who costs one more mana, nearly doubles the Thunder Bird's stats, is a legendary, and has Lifelink while also being a flying creature with first strike
In part because making three extra mana for free in any deck is incredibly broken
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Its a fairly ambitious but strangely potent strategy
Most decks with counters themes have white in there somewhere, whether thats a card with a black pip that gets partnered with Alharu, Solemn Ritualist, a Selesnya leader like Torens, Fist of the Angels, or even dark horse Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper