talrand artifact by user4154207

Format: Commander

Commander: Talrand, Sky Summoner

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue spellslinger control build piloted by Talrand, Sky Summoner. It combines traditional permission control with asymmetric stax pieces like Meekstone, Cursed Totem, and Torpor Orb to suppress opposing strategies while breaking parity. Because Drake tokens have 2 base power, Meekstone leaves your attackers completely unaffected while grounding opposing giants. Talrand, Sky Summoner sits in the command zone as an inevitable engine that turns every counterspell, cantrip, and bounce spell into an evasive 2/2 flying body. Card advantage engines such as Archmage Emeritus, Wavebreak Hippocamp, and Rhystic Study keep your hand full of answers. Once an army of Drakes reaches critical mass, the deck closes the game through evasive air combat, supported by backup win conditions like Alandra, Sky Dreamer, Hullbreaker Horror, and artifact loops with Sensei's Divining Top. Protection tools like Kira, Great Glass-Spinner and cheap countermagic safeguard your board through multiple turns of combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abjure
• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Aetherspouts
• 1 Agna Qel'a
• 1 Alandra, Sky Dreamer
• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archway of Innovation
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crystal Vein
• 1 Cursed Totem
• 1 Disallow
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Fraying Sanity
• 1 Frozen Aether
• 1 High Tide
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 16 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
• 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1 Laboratory Maniac
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Mechanized Production
• 1 Meekstone
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Misleading Signpost
• 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
• 1 Moonlit Meditation
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Proteus Staff
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Riptide Laboratory
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
• 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
• 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellbook
• 1 Stroke of Genius
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 The Reality Chip
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Torpor Orb
• 1 Tribute Mage
• 1 Triskaidekaphile
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
• 1 War Room
• 1 Wash Out
• 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Wizard's Staff