Ain't It Fun by Sinigang7

Format: Commander

Commander: Baral, Chief of Compliance

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential mono-blue draw-go control strategy commanded by Baral, Chief of Compliance. Baral serves as both a cost-reducer and a card-filtering engine, reducing the cost of all instant and sorcery spells while looting whenever a spell is countered. The deck plays at instant speed, disrupting opposing threats with an extensive suite of over 25 counterspells, spot removal, and bounce effects. As it interacts, payoffs like Talrand, Sky Summoner, Murmuring Mystic, and Archmage Emeritus translate reactive spells into flying Drake and Bird armies and sustained card advantage. The deck leverages high redundancy in countermagic and cost reduction to control the tempo of the game, ultimately closing through an overwhelming, protected airborne combat assault or high-power threats like Guile and Haughty Djinn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Assimilate Essence
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Deny Existence
  • 1 Devious Cover-Up
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Ertai's Scorn
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exclude
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Foresee
  • 1 Geyser Drake
  • 1 Guile
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Insidious Will
  • 26 Island
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mind Spring
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Out of Air
  • 1 Overwhelming Denial
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reject
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snuff
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Twist Reality
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urza's Rebuff
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair