75 Dollar Budget Baral Go by user1046258

Format: Commander

Commander: Baral, Chief of Compliance

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Mono-Blue Draw-Go Control strategy commanded by Baral, Chief of Compliance. The game plan revolves around deploying Baral on turn 2 to reduce the casting cost of instant and sorcery spells by {1} while using his triggered ability to loot through the library whenever an opposing spell is countered. With over 30 counterspells in the list, the deck polices the stack, denies high-impact opposing threats, and smoothly digs toward its primary win condition: Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal. With nonland mana rocks producing at least 3 mana, this pairing generates infinite mana and untaps, instantly fueling win outlets such as Codex Shredder to mill out every opponent or Blue Sun's Zenith to force each opponent to draw their entire library. The deck excels at stack control and protected combo execution, though it is vulnerable to resolved permanents and artifact hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blink of an Eye
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bone to Ash
  • 1 Calculated Dismissal
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Censor
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Corrupted Grafstone
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countervailing Winds
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Disrupt
  • 1 Dissolve
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Ertai's Scorn
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exclude
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Hornswoggle
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 1 Impulse
  • 29 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Lose Focus
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Miscalculation
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neutralize
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sage's Dousing
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Worn Powerstone