Bitchmade by AnnoDracula

Format: Commander

Commander: Baral, Chief of Compliance

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This mono-blue Draw-Go Spellslinger control deck uses Baral, Chief of Compliance to discount reactive spells and filter through the library with loot triggers. The primary strategy revolves around establishing an early cost-reduction engine, controlling the stack with dense countermagic, and generating sustained card advantage through engines like Archmage Emeritus and Wavebreak Hippocamp. Once opposing threats are blunted, the deck transitions to a mid-game win condition by generating an evasive air force with Talrand, Sky Summoner, growing a massive Haughty Djinn, or building a 13-card hand with Triskaidekaphile. While the deck excels at 1-for-1 stack interaction and spell efficiency, its reliance on incremental combat damage across 3 opponent response cycles leaves it vulnerable to resolved noncreature permanents and multi-opponent board pressure. Protective equipment and countermagic shield the win conditions until lethal damage or alternate victory conditions are achieved.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arcum Dagsson
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 30 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nerd Rage
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Remand
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windrider Wizard
  • 1 Wizard Class