talrand b3 by sevewolfe

Format: Commander

Commander: Talrand, Sky Summoner

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This mono-blue spellslinger deck is piloted by Talrand, Sky Summoner, converting every instant and sorcery into a 2/2 flying Drake token. The game plan focuses on establishing early cost reduction through permanents like Thunderclap Drake, Haughty Djinn, and Curious Homunculus, followed by deploying Talrand on Turn 4 or 5. Once the commander is established, the deck leverages an extensive suite of low-cost cantrips, bounce spells, and countermagic to simultaneously control opposing boards and assemble a wide flying army. Card velocity is maintained through deep dig spells like Dig Through Time, Memory Deluge, and Treasure Cruise. The deck closes games around Turn 8 or 9 through repeated aerial combat, often punctuated by asymmetric finishers such as Candlekeep Inspiration, Sleep, or River's Rebuke. While vulnerable to mass sweepers, dedicated defensive interaction and redundant token engines provide resilience across long multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Behold the Multiverse
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Bounce Off
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Candlekeep Inspiration
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crashing Tide
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Drag Under
  • 1 Drawn from Dreams
  • 1 Fading Hope
  • 1 Font of Magic
  • 1 Galestrike
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Impulse
  • 36 Island
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Repulse
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 River's Rebuke
  • 1 Scour All Possibilities
  • 1 Shimmer of Possibility
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Wizards of Thay