High Tide Talrand (Budget)

Commander / EDH* Budget Buyback Casual Combo Control Counterspell Midrange Mono-Blue Spellslinger Tokens

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Instant (32)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dispel
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mind Games
• 1x Opt
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Whispers of the Muse
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deliberate
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Displace
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Wizard's Retort
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Dig Through Time

Artifact (14)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Bident of Thassa

Land (35)

• 1x Guildless Commons
• 30x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Creature (5)

• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Walk the Aeons

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Trade Routes
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission

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Instant (16)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Consider
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Visions of Beyond
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Remand
• 1x Snap
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Evacuation

Artifact (9)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Winged Boots
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Gilded Lotus

Creature (4)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Portent
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mystic Remora

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Budget casual mono blue combos to make infinite mana, infinite Drakes and extra turns featuring Talrand, Sky Summoner.

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Infinite Combos

• Talrand + Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker/Displace/Illusionist's Stratagem + Peregrine Drake = infinite mana/Drakes.
• Talrand + Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker/Displace/Illusionist's Stratagem + High Tide + Orvar, the All-Form = infinite mana/Drakes.
• Talrand + Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring + Astral Cornucopia/Everflowing Chalice + Whispers of the Muse/Mind Games/Mystic Speculation = infinite mana/Drakes.
• Talrand + Orvar, the All-Form + Peregrine Drake + Mind Games = infinite mana/Drakes.
• Archaeomancer + Walk the Aeons + Riptide Laboratory = extra turns.
• Trade Routes + Walk the Aeons + Mystic Sanctuary = extra turns.

With infinite blue mana Capsize with buyback is also a win condition.

Some Interesting Two-Card Interactions

• Trade Routes + Mystic Sanctuary = repeatable recursion of instants or sorceries.
• Liquimetal Torque + Resculpt/Ravenform = exile any nonland permanent.
• Orvar, the All-Form + Mind Games = repeatable create a token of a creature, artifact or land.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.43
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 U, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 4/4 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie Army 0/0 B