You didnt say please by Nomad1975
Format: Commander
Commander: Baral, Chief of Compliance
Bracket: 3
DeckCheck Threat Index: 32
Deck overview
This deck is a classic mono-blue Draw-Go control deck led by Baral, Chief of Compliance. Baral accelerates your game plan by reducing the cost of all instant and sorcery spells by one generic mana while turning every countered spell into card selection through looting. The deck leverages an exceptionally dense suite of over thirty counterspells to police the stack, deny critical opposing threats, and systematically exhaust opponents' resources. Because the deck operates entirely at instant speed, you keep mana untapped on opponents' turns to react flexibly before casting card draw or flash threats on the end step prior to your turn. Mid-to-late game engines like Archmage Emeritus, Wavebreak Hippocamp, and The Magic Mirror generate card advantage, while Talrand, Sky Summoner and Hullbreaker Horror translate spell casts into an evasive aerial army or a permanent-bouncing board lock. Without fast mana or infinite combos, the deck steadily grinds down the table through superior card velocity and aerial combat.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Aether Spellbomb
- 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
- 1 Annul
- 1 Anticognition
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Archmage Emeritus
- 1 As Foretold
- 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
- 1 Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
- 1 Behold the Multiverse
- 1 Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable
- 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
- 1 Bone to Ash
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
- 1 Cancel
- 1 Compulsive Research
- 1 Consuming Tide
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Deny the Divine
- 1 Devious Cover-Up
- 1 Didn't Say Please
- 1 Disallow
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
- 1 Dismiss
- 1 Dispel
- 1 Dissipate
- 1 Eaten by Piranhas
- 1 Essence Capture
- 1 Essence Scatter
- 1 Exclude
- 1 Fading Hope
- 1 Flip the Switch
- 1 Folio of Fancies
- 1 Gadwick, the Wizened
- 1 Hall of Oracles
- 1 Haughty Djinn
- 1 Hullbreaker Horror
- 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
- 16 Island
- 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
- 1 Keep Safe
- 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
- 1 Make Disappear
- 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscast
- 1 Mocking Sprite
- 1 Mordenkainen
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Narset's Reversal
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
- 1 Negate
- 1 Opt
- 1 Overflowing Insight
- 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
- 1 Pull from Tomorrow
- 1 Quench
- 1 Quick Study
- 1 Radiant Fountain
- 1 Reject
- 1 Reliquary Tower
- 1 Ruin Crab
- 1 Sinister Sabotage
- 1 Siren Stormtamer
- 1 Sleep
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Swindle
- 1 Stubborn Denial
- 1 Sublime Epiphany
- 1 Syncopate
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
- 1 Teferi, Master of Time
- 1 Thassa's Intervention
- 1 The Magic Mirror
- 1 The Reality Chip
- 1 Thieving Skydiver
- 1 Thought Collapse
- 1 Timetwister
- 1 Triskaidekaphile
- 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
- 1 Wizard Class
- 1 Wizard's Spellbook