Talrand

Format: Commander

Commander: Talrand, Sky Summoner

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This mono-blue deck plays a classic draw-go spellslinger tempo strategy centered on Talrand, Sky Summoner. The game plan focuses on deploying cheap mana rocks early and casting Talrand on Turn 4. Once Talrand is on the battlefield, every instant and sorcery creates a 2/2 blue Drake token with flying. The deck leverages this growing evasive army alongside combat card draw engines such as Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, and Ultimecia, Temporal Threat to replenish its hand with permission and bounce spells. By disrupting opposing plays on the stack with countermagic like Mana Leak, Negate, and Ice Out, the deck protects its board while gradually swarming the table. High-end threats like Stormtide Leviathan and tempo blowouts like Sleep lock down ground combat and push through lethal damage. While vulnerable to board wipes, the deck excels at steady attrition and aerial beatdown.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Amass the Components
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Augur of Bolas
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bone to Ash
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Clear the Mind
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Counterlash
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Dreamstone Hedron
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostform
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Ice Out
  • 32 Island
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neurok Invisimancer
  • 1 Niblis of the Breath
  • 1 Out of Air
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Piracy Charm
  • 1 Reality Acid
  • 1 Rebuild
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Scroll Thief
  • 1 Seize the Secrets
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Snaremaster Sprite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spelltwine
  • 1 Spiketail Drakeling
  • 1 Storm Sculptor
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Talrand's Invocation
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vantress Transmuter // Croaking Curse
  • 1 Volition Reins
  • 1 Voyage's End
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Watertrap Weaver
  • 1 Winter Moon