Talion Control Budget

Format: Commander

Commander: Talion, the Kindly Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Dimir Control-Combo deck uses Talion, the Kindly Lord as a continuous card advantage engine and life-taxing presence. By deploying low-cost mana rocks and burst lands, the deck reliably casts Talion on Turn 3, typically choosing the number 2 to match the format's dense concentration of two-mana staples. The defensive shell utilizes an extensive interaction suite featuring cheap counterspells, pinpoint removal, and mass sweepers alongside pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda to protect the player's life total. The primary win condition is a compact two-card synergy: activating the life-loss ability of Duskmantle Guildmage and casting a kicked Maddening Cacophony. This forces all opponents to mill half their libraries, triggering lethal life loss across the table in a single turn. With high tutor redundancy via Transmute and Wizardcycling, backed by graveyard recursion, the deck methodically controls the board until securing a decisive finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Aetherspouts
• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Chain of Vapor
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crystal Vein
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Delay
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Infiltrator
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1 Ebon Stronghold
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extravagant Replication
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flood of Recollection
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 1 Into the Flood Maw
• 6 Island
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Lórien Revealed
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Marchesa's Decree
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mirrormade
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Reflection
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Negate
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Peat Bog
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Revenge of Ravens
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Saprazzan Skerry
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Scheming Symmetry
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shred Memory
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Step Through
• 1 Strix Serenade
• 1 Svyelunite Temple
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vile Consumption
• 1 Volatile Stormdrake