Talrand Sky Summoner

Format: Commander

Commander: Talrand, Sky Summoner

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue spellslinger control strategy led by Talrand, Sky Summoner. The primary game plan focuses on casting low-cost cantrips and holding up counterspells to control game tempo while generating an evasive army of 2/2 flying Drake tokens. Redundant token creators such as Murmuring Mystic, Deekah, Fractal Theorist, and Metallurgic Summonings ensure resilience if the commander is removed. Mana development is supported by standard artifact rocks and creature dorks, while card flow is augmented by engines like Archmage Emeritus and Curiosity Crafter. Defensive cards like Propaganda and control magic auras like Control Magic and Blatant Thievery disrupt opposing strategies by taking their best threats. The deck closes games through wide aerial combat damage, often clearing away all blockers with a well-timed Scourge of Fleets.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Apprentice Wizard
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Clear the Mind
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Dissolve
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Graceful Adept
  • 1 Hydro-Channeler
  • 1 Impulse
  • 34 Island
  • 1 Learn from the Past
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mask of Avacyn
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neutralize
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Persuasion
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reality Ripple
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reminisce
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unblinking Observer
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Void Shatter
  • 1 Volshe Tideturner
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Retort