tompytomps's Talrand
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍)
vinVintage
Approx. Value:
$212.02
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Avg. CMC 3.08
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
releases on April 11, 2025!

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
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Main Deck - 100 cards, 69 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (6)
1 Kaho, Minamo Historian
$0.05 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
1 Platinum Angel
$6.11 Artifact Creature - Angel
1 Steel Hellkite
$0.30 Artifact Creature - Dragon
1 Stormtide Leviathan
$0.53 Creature - Leviathan
1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
$0.34 Legendary Creature - Merfolk Wizard
1 Tidespout Tyrant
$0.79 Creature - Djinn
Instant (29)
1 Abjure
$2.94 Instant
1 Aetherize
$0.37 Instant
1 Aetherspouts
$0.52 Instant
1 Arcane Denial
$1.68 Instant
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.62 Instant
1 Capsize
$1.74 Instant
1 Counterspell
$1.46 Instant
1 Cryptic Command
$3.71 Instant
1 Cyclonic Rift
$34.69 Instant
1 Desertion
$0.64 Instant
1 Dig Through Time
$0.37 Instant
1 Dismiss
$0.33 Instant
1 Dissipate
$0.06 Instant
1 Dream Fracture
$0.23 Instant
1 Faerie Trickery
$1.06 Tribal Instant - Faerie
1 Forbid
$1.09 Instant
1 Impulse
$0.09 Instant
1 Muddle the Mixture
$1.28 Instant
1 Mystical Tutor
$10.79 Instant
1 Negate
$0.27 Instant
1 Pact of Negation
$15.00 Instant
1 Peer Through Depths
$0.20 Instant - Arcane
1 Pongify
$1.26 Instant
1 Rapid Hybridization
$0.80 Instant
1 Reality Shift
$0.34 Instant
1 Spelljack
$1.40 Instant
1 Squelch
$0.24 Instant
1 Stifle
$7.47 Instant
1 Swan Song
$11.41 Instant
Sorcery (8)
1 Day's Undoing
$1.25 Sorcery
1 Distant Melody
$0.64 Sorcery
1 Fabricate
$6.82 Sorcery
1 Merchant Scroll
$6.54 Sorcery
1 Ponder
$1.14 Sorcery
1 Portent
$0.40 Sorcery
1 Preordain
$0.35 Sorcery
1 Wash Out
$0.53 Sorcery
Artifact (15)
1 Bident of Thassa
$0.63 Legendary Enchantment Artifact
1 Caged Sun
$3.38 Artifact
1 Expedition Map
$0.82 Artifact
1 Gilded Lotus
$1.30 Artifact
1 Isochron Scepter
$13.87 Artifact
1 Lightning Greaves
$4.33 Artifact - Equipment
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
$0.31 Artifact
1 Proteus Staff
$0.77 Artifact
1 Relic of Progenitus
$4.53 Artifact
1 Runechanter's Pike
$0.31 Artifact - Equipment
1 Sapphire Medallion
$3.91 Artifact
1 Sol Ring
$1.17 Artifact
1 Thran Dynamo
$2.47 Artifact
1 Vedalken Shackles
$4.59 Artifact
1 Worn Powerstone
$0.25 Artifact
Enchantment (2)
1 Coastal Piracy
$0.51 Enchantment
1 Jace's Sanctum
$0.73 Enchantment
Land (40)
1 Arcane Lighthouse
$2.68 Land
1 Halimar Depths
$0.79 Land
32 Island
$0.09 Basic Land - Island
1 Lonely Sandbar
$0.24 Land
1 Maze of Ith
$6.96 Land
1 Myriad Landscape
$0.17 Land
1 Reliquary Tower
$1.57 Land
1 Seat of the Synod
$0.94 Artifact Land
1 Tolaria West
$0.63 Land
Sideboard - 5 cards, 5 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Instant (2)
1 Aethersnatch
$1.37 Instant
1 Mystic Confluence
$0.58 Instant
Artifact (1)
1 Thought Vessel
$1.14 Artifact
Planeswalker (1)
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
$14.79 Legendary Planeswalker - Tezzeret
Land (1)
1 Command Beacon
$4.55 Land

Notes
 
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Comments
  • Greg DeSimone | 11-Nov-2013 15:40
    proteus staff is a great addition for two reasons:
    1) kill enemy commander without putting in command zone
    2) mono-blue has almost no creature destruction (besides the two pongifys you already have)
    • tompytomps | 11-Nov-2013 16:33
      Proteus is a good idea.  I'd also really like it in an artifact-heavy build with a grafdigger's cage.  Pay 3 to tuck your commander and you don't even get another creature out of it.
      • Your Mother | 11-Nov-2013 18:01
        Proteus is awesome - maybe the only thing that could tango with Ruric Thar.
      • Greg DeSimone | Edited 11-Nov-2013 20:35
        grafdiggers + proteus would be cool, but it sucks drawing just grafdiggers. trinket mage would help with getting grafdiggers with a proteus staff, and trinket mage could also grab a sol ring, if you so desire (and have one)


        could also add seat of the synod so that trinket mage could just be a borderland ranger
        • tompytomps | 11-Nov-2013 20:37
          Grafdigger's is still nice just because out of 3 or 4 people someone's usually trying to cast from their graveyard/library.  I still wouldn't put it here but in an artifact deck I'm sure you could always discard/sack it for something else or just use it to count for numbers.
  • Your Mother | 10-Nov-2013 13:32
    As Greg instructed me after the last time he kicked the crap out of me "control is hard because you look weak".  You need some cheap blue deterrents to stay alive and Talrand behind.  Fog Bank, Guard Gomazoa, et al for starters.  Also, propoganda.  Coat of Arms is awesome and most people will not run tribal in commander.  Very awesome.  Might as well throw some other drakes in there, then, eh?  All the Spiketails may help to start, Darkslick replaces itself, Gilded is awesome for a lategamepull.  Silver Wyvern is a drake that will almost never die.  Cast Through Time, Reality Strobe, Spellweaver Volute all up the Talrand power.  Surrakar Spellbreaker and Prescient Chimera also gain from casty, even when Talrand ain't around.
    • Your Mother | 10-Nov-2013 13:32
      propaganda, whatever.
    • tompytomps | 11-Nov-2013 16:36
      propaganda I'll definitely have to make room for.  Cast through time also sounds pretty cool.  I also like Surrakar, but I don't think I have enough ways to push him through on his own.  He'd be awesome in a control-heavy Thassa deck.
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