FAERIES by lightningdust

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Dimir deck combines Faerie tribal synergies with an attrition-based control strategy commanded by Talion, the Kindly Lord. The game plan revolves around deploying Talion early, naming the most prevalent mana value or statline (typically 2), and converting opponents' normal casting actions into steady card advantage and direct life loss. As the game develops, the deck broadens its board presence using flying token producers like Bitterblossom and Faerie Formation, augmented by lords like Glen Elendra Liege. Stacking tax effects like Painful Quandary punishes opponents for attempting to keep pace, while a suite of interactive spells disruptions protects life totals. The deck steadily grinds down the table through evasive aerial combat and life-drain triggers, finally closing out remaining opponents with high-impact finishers such as Exsanguinate, Rise of the Dark Realms, or a massive Consuming Aberration.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Echoes
  • 1 Barrow Naughty
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chancellor of Tales
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demon's Due
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dream Spoilers
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Elvenking's Harper
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faebloom Trick
  • 1 Faerie Formation
  • 1 Font of Progress
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glen Elendra Liege
  • 1 Graveyard Shift
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 High Fae Negotiator
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nettling Nuisance
  • 1 Nymris, Oona's Trickster
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Quest for the Necropolis
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Run Out of Town
  • 1 Rune-Sealed Wall
  • 1 Secluded Glen
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stab
  • 1 Stingblade Assassin
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Bath Song
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Voidwing Hybrid
  • 1 Water Wings
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Witness Protection