Talrand Says No!

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Counterspell Mono-Blue Storm

shwanerz88

Instant (24)

• 1x Access Denied
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Faerie Trickery
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Jwari Disruption  ^Flip
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Synthetic Destiny
• 1x Wash Away

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Cowardice
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission

Creature (20)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Curiosity Crafter
• 1x Gadwick, the Wizened
• 1x Guile
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Octavia, Living Thesis
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Subtlety
• 1x Tempest Djinn
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1x Willbender

Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 24x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Kill Switch
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Treasure Cruise

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Didn't Say Please
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Spell Syphon
• 1x Void Shatter
• 1x Whirlwind Denial

Creature (2)

• 1x Deekah, Fractal Theorist
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Artifact (1)

• 1x Manifold Key

Land (2)

• 1x Frostwalk Bastion
• 1x Scrying Sheets

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Foil
• 1x Grip of Phyresis
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Wash Away

Creature (3)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Deekah, Fractal Theorist
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Wizard Class

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Serum Visions

Artifact (1)

• 1x Idol of Oblivion

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17 counters (cut down from 25, I decided to be nice), this is the deck I'm gonna bring out after someone gives me a bad time in a previous game. This deck is very difficult to beat in a 1v1 setting because you just don't let your opponent do anything. Counters are the game plan which will give us drakes to fly over and do a death by 1,000 cuts, we want them to suffer just as we have suffered. There's a few combos in here like Pickles Brine Elemental + Vesuvan Shapeshifter to stop people from untapping if I can have 7 mana available. Opposition + Cowardice is a very cool little combo I discovered which gives all creatures: Tap, return target creature to its owner's hand. Then we do have an Isochron Scepter in here with ideal targets being Dramatic Reversal to create infinite mana and spell casts with a few mana rocks out or Counterspell/Swan Song for a counters every single turn cycle. If we are able to set up the infinite mana combo we can storm off with Aetherflux Reservoir/Sentinel Tower or Capsize all the things for the win.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 42 - 4 Rares 19 - 7 Uncommons 10 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.79
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Bird Illusion 1/1 U, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Fractal 0/0 GU, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	EDH Decks, vamp