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Baral, Chief of Compliance · U · 100 cards · 38 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 32Instants 19Artifacts 8Enchantments 2Lands 38
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Strategy
Baral, Chief of Compliance leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 20 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.08.
Early: Use the early turns on mana and on the commander itself. Mana Drain and the other 11 ramp pieces are there to power what comes after Baral, Chief of Compliance, not to cast it - at 2 mana it should be on the table almost immediately.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Rewind is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Archmage Emeritus keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Cyclonic Rift for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.08 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins through the commander and the strongest threats the colours offer, backed by real interaction.
- Rewind - Interaction
- Unwind - Interaction
- Disallow - Interaction
- Mana Leak - Core to the plan
- Talrand, Sky Summoner - Core to the plan
- Guile - Interaction
- Tale's End - Interaction
- Archmage Emeritus - Card draw
~$498.75
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Creatures (32)
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$0.41
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Guile
Creature — Elemental Incarnation
$0.8
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
If a spell or ability you control would counter a spell, instead exile that spell and you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
When Guile is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Archmage Emeritus
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.56
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.72
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Wavebreak Hippocamp
Enchantment Creature — Horse Fish
$0.6
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.
Archmage of Runes
Creature — Giant Wizard
$3.36
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Haughty Djinn
Creature — Djinn
$0.33
Flying
Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Murmuring Mystic
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.31
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.
Laboratory Maniac
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.45
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$8.2
Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Archaeomancer
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.28
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Legendary Creature — Elemental Fish
$5.1
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {U} (or {1}) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
Triskaidekaphile
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.68
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.
{3}{U}: Draw a card.
Snapcaster Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
$14.95
Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Naiad of Hidden Coves
Enchantment Creature — Nymph
$0.23
During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Mocking Sprite
Creature — Faerie Rogue
$0.18
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Faerie Mastermind
Creature — Faerie Rogue
$11.47
Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
{3}{U}: Each player draws a card.
Spellseeker
Creature — Human Wizard
$16.47
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Thunderclap Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.52
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Homunculus Horde
Creature — Homunculus
$1.01
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$4.82
Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.
Geyser Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.15
Flying
During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.34
Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.71
Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
Nezahal, Primal Tide
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$8.64
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Torrential Gearhulk
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.28
Flash
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Niblis of Frost
Creature — Spirit
$0.37
Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Arcanis the Omnipotent
Legendary Creature — Wizard
$0.17
{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.
The Reality Chip
Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish
$4.02
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Gadwick, the Wizened
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.37
When Gadwick enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Hydro-Channeler
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$0.22
{T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
Instants (19)
Disallow
Instant
$0.39
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Tale's End
Instant
$3.13
Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.
Ertai's Scorn
Instant
$0.27
This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.
Disdainful Stroke
Instant
$0.12
Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.
Arcane Denial
Instant
$1.57
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Instant
$3.01
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Brainstorm
Instant
$1.27
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Mana Drain
Instant
$51.22
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.
Swan Song
Instant
$9.85
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.27
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Fierce Guardianship
Instant
$63.56
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
High Tide
Instant
$0.81
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.
Mana Sculpt
Instant
$0.77
Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of {C} equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.
Artifacts (8)
Monument to Endurance
Artifact
$19.57
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.3
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Arcane Signet
Artifact
$0.42
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Bender's Waterskin
Artifact
$0.92
Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Fellwar Stone
Artifact
$0.9
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Enchantments (2)
Rhystic Study
Enchantment
$67.53
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.
Imprisoned in the Moon
Enchantment — Aura
$0.31
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Lands (38)
Mystic Sanctuary
Land — Island
$1.11
({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Castle Vantress
Land
$0.35
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
Otawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
$26.49
{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Rivendell
Legendary Land
$1.65
Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.
Riptide Laboratory
Land
$0.64
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.
Lonely Sandbar
Land
$0.17
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Halimar Depths
Land
$0.35
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga
$36.03
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
War Room
Land
$5.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Mistrise Village
Land
$6.98
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Basic lands: 26 Island
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