Talion Combo (Not Control) by YamiRaito

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 83

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized competitive Dimir control-combo list built around Talion, the Kindly Lord. The commander serves as a resilient asymmetric draw engine and life-drain tax in the command zone, penalizing opponents whenever they cast format-defining mana values (typically 2 or 1). The primary win condition is the premier cEDH pairing of Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, creating an instant table kill on Turn 3 for as little as three mana. Backing this core is a secondary infinite Magecraft drain combo using Professor Onyx and Chain of Smog, alongside massive card advantage engines like Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, Rhystic Study, and Mystic Remora. The deck features an ultra-dense, low-curve interactive suite of zero- and one-mana counterspells, targeted removal, and asymmetric stax pieces including Cursed Totem, Grafdigger's Cage, and Ashiok, Dream Render. With format-ceiling access, instant-speed compactness, and robust protection, the deck reliably pivots between proactive early finishes and suffocating attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman