B3 Talion by Edelritter91

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized competitive Dimir shell commanded by Talion, the Kindly Lord. The primary strategy focuses on assembling the compact, game-ending combination of Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact as early as Turn 3. Early turns utilize fast mana and cheap asymmetric stax artifacts like Cursed Totem and Vexing Bauble to hinder faster opposing strategies. Once Talion enters the battlefield, typically naming 1 or 2, it establishes a continuous stream of card draw and life drain from opponents' routine actions. This card flow fuels a deep suite of free and low-cost counterspells, such as Force of Negation and Pact of Negation, ensuring both robust defensive capability and ironclad protection on the combo turn. If the primary win line is compromised, the deck smoothly transitions into an alternate infinite loop via Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, or utilizes clone creatures to multiply Talion triggers and drain opponents out.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Runestone
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yahenni's Expertise