Draw and do stuff by user8438006

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Dimir deck utilizes Talion, the Kindly Lord as a card advantage and life-drain engine at the helm of a controlling shell. Casting Talion on turn 3 or 4 and naming two punishes opponents for casting common low-cost spells while keeping your hand full. The deck leverages this steady flow of cards to dig into an infinite life-drain loop, combining Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond. Supported by efficient sweepers like Toxic Deluge and Damnation alongside situational hate pieces like Grafdigger's Cage and Vexing Bauble, the deck suppresses opposing momentum until it can execute its win condition on turn 6. A backup combo featuring Leveler and Thassa's Oracle provides an alternative instant-win line if life-drain pieces are unavailable. Overall, the deck delivers resilient control with a decisive, compact finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bone to Ash
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Demon's Due
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gruesome Realization
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare Unmaking
  • 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wall of Air
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Runestone
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep