Monkey’s Paw Chapter 1: Unlimited Nope Works by truth285

Format: Commander

Commander: Baral, Chief of Compliance

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This mono-blue control deck uses Baral, Chief of Compliance as a commander to establish a dominant draw-go playstyle. Baral reduces the casting cost of all instant and sorcery spells by one generic mana and filters cards whenever a spell is countered. The deck features over thirty pieces of countermagic, ranging from free interaction like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship to modal spells like Cryptic Command and Sublime Epiphany. Rather than racing to execute fast combo kills, the strategy aims to police the table, trade efficiently with opposing threats, and draw cards off engines like Archmage Emeritus and Rhystic Study. Once the table is stabilized, it closes the game through asymmetric locks like Arcane Laboratory and Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, or by swarming opponents with flying Drake tokens generated by Talrand, Sky Summoner. Its primary strengths are suffocating stack interaction and commander resilience, though it suffers from a slow clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Laboratory
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blue Elemental Blast
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Desert of the Mindful
  • 1 Devious Cover-Up
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Diversion Unit
  • 1 Don't Make a Sound
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Ertai's Scorn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Hinder
  • 1 Insidious Will
  • 24 Island
  • 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Last Word
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Redaction
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Remote Isle
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Runechanter's Pike
  • 1 Silumgar Spell-Eater
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Shrivel
  • 1 Spellgyre
  • 1 Spiketail Drake
  • 1 Spiketail Hatchling
  • 1 Stern Scolding
  • 1 Stronghold Biologist
  • 1 Stronghold Machinist
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Voidmage Apprentice
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair