killing me kindly by user9653510

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck executes a classic Dimir flash-control strategy helmed by Talion, the Kindly Lord. The game plan revolves around resolving Talion on curve, usually naming the number 2 to exploit Commander's dense curve of mana rocks, utility dorks, and premium interaction. Each matching cast by an opponent bleeds their life total while fueling your hand with fresh cards. You then leverage that steady influx of cards to hold up instant-speed interaction, cast Flash threats, and clone Talion with cards like Spark Double and Irenicus's Vile Duplication. Rather than pursuing infinite combos, the deck closes games through compounding drain triggers, goaded combat exchanges via Alela, Cunning Conqueror, and evasive Faerie beatdown. While highly resilient against spell-heavy decks, it must carefully manage sweepers and heavy creature aggression.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blightwing Bandit
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Bladecrafter
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Malleable Impostor
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Mystic Reflection
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nettling Nuisance
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Quickling
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellstutter Sprite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Suspend
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Talion's Messenger
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
  • 1 Theoretical Duplication
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yahenni's Expertise
  • 1 Zimone's Hypothesis