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Talrand, Sky Summoner · U · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 33Instants 18Sorceries 5Artifacts 3Enchantments 3Lands 37
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Strategy
Talrand, Sky Summoner leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 3 board wipes and 10 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.00.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. High Tide and the rest of the 12 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Talrand, Sky Summoner on curve and keep casting after it.
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. Counterspell is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Impulse keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Aetherize for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 3 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.00 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.
- Opt - Core to the plan
- Favorable Winds - Core to the plan
- Murmuring Mystic - Core to the plan
- Preordain - Core to the plan
- Impulse - Card draw
- Winged Words - Card draw
- Serum Visions - Core to the plan
- Consider - Core to the plan
~$306.52
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Creatures (33)
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.
Archmage Emeritus
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.56
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$3.24
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.
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.
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.
Wavebreak Hippocamp
Enchantment Creature — Horse Fish
$0.6
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$9.55
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
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.
Curiosity Crafter
Creature — Bird Wizard
$0.3
Flying
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Mocking Sprite
Creature — Faerie Rogue
$0.18
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Archaeomancer
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.28
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Octavia, Living Thesis
Legendary Creature — Elemental Octopus
$1.16
This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
Stormtide Leviathan
Creature — Leviathan
$0.49
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.
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.
Enduring Curiosity
Enchantment Creature — Cat Glimmer
$6.9
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
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.
Geyser Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.15
Flying
During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Scourge of Fleets
Creature — Kraken
$0.46
When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero
$0.26
Reach
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, you may 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.)
Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard
$0.35
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and vigilance.
Whenever you attack with one or more Birds, scry 2.
Peregrine Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.24
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Naiad of Hidden Coves
Enchantment Creature — Nymph
$0.23
During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
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.
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.33
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
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.
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.
Wizards of Thay
Creature — Human Wizard
$1.37
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Volshe Tideturner
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$0.27
{T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell or a kicked spell.
Ornithopter of Paradise
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.44
Flying
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Instants (18)
Opt
Instant
$0.16
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Impulse
Instant
$0.12
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Consider
Instant
$0.28
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Anticipate
Instant
$0.04
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Brainstorm
Instant
$1.27
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Frantic Search
Instant
$0.74
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
High Tide
Instant
$0.81
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.
Pongify
Instant
$2
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Rapid Hybridization
Instant
$0.81
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.
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.")
Mystical Tutor
Instant
$14.99
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Reality Shift
Instant
$0.23
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
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.
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.
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.
Sorceries (5)
Preordain
Sorcery
$0.63
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Winged Words
Sorcery
$0.22
This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.
Ponder
Sorcery
$1.77
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Retraced Image
Sorcery
$8.7
Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.
Artifacts (3)
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.
Enchantments (3)
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 (37)
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.
Lonely Sandbar
Land
$0.17
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Riptide Laboratory
Land
$0.64
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.
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.
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}.
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.
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.
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Remote Isle
Land
$0.19
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Terrain Generator
Land
$1.29
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Basic lands: 25 Island
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