TALION CONTROL by thedevil613

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 90

Deck overview

This competitive Dimir deck utilizes Talion, the Kindly Lord to generate massive card draw and life drain in the command zone while setting up compact instant-speed win lines. The primary strategy focuses on assembling Thassa's Oracle alongside Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, winning the game on turn 3 with stack-based inevitability. A dense suite of zero- and one-mana acceleration accelerates development, while premium tutors guarantee access to missing pieces. Meanwhile, asymmetric stax pieces like Opposition Agent, Ashiok, Dream Render, and Orcish Bowmasters severely penalize opponents who attempt to develop their own boards. The deck is heavily protected by format-ceiling free countermagic, including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Pact of Negation, allowing it to defend its win attempt or disrupt opposing wins with equal efficiency. Massive burst draw engines such as Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and Peer into the Abyss provide resilient pivots into redundant win conditions like Laboratory Maniac.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman