My Talrand Deck

Commander / EDH Budget Control Mono-Blue Tokens

Dylmesse2017

Instant (30)

• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Deny Existence
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dragonlord's Prerogative
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Failed Inspection
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Frost Breath
• 1x Griptide
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Negate
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Revolutionary Rebuff
• 1x Spell Shrivel
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Turn to Frog
• 1x Unsummon

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Divination
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Inaction Injunction
• 1x Into the Void
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Stolen Goods
• 1x Talrand's Invocation
• 1x Vivisection
• 1x Void Snare

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Favorable Winds

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (12)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Cloaked Siren
• 1x Cloudfin Raptor
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Mist Raven
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Stealer of Secrets
• 1x Warden of Evos Isle

Land (39)

• 39x Island

Commander (1)

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A friend and I built this deck mainly out of cards that came in various Deck Builder's Toolkits. It's a pretty decent commander, although I have nothing to gauge it on, as it is my only commander deck.

Sure, there are some cards that could be swapped out for something better. That's the beauty of the game.

As always, I'm always looking for ways to improve my decks. Good luck, and happy control :)

UPDATE 1/4/2017

Since i originally built this deck, i have been tweaking it bit by bit. Over the holidays, i recieved a Kaladesh fat pack and threw some cards from that into here.

Game Winning Combos

So with Talrand's ability, I made sure to take advantage of that by mounting this deck with as many sorceries and instants. One of the potential ways to win is to flood the board with 2/2 Drake tokens (3/3 if you have Favorable Winds in play. Rise from the Tides also assists in getting tokens. Another way to win is to simply get Psychosis Crawler out and cast Enter the Infinite, but that could take a while, and the odds are a bit out there.

How to Play Easily

Essentially, this is a token deck. No where was i trying to hide that. Because of this, you usually need Talrand on the field in order to get creatures. This could become a problem if it gets to a point where you need to cast 10+ mana in order to just KEEP him.

So anyway, this deck is pretty easy to learn. The basic premise of it is that you play lands, and cast Talrand as early as possible. With Talrand on the field, things begin to get interesting. Every sorcery or instant you cast, he creates a 2/2 blue drake token. The ways that i won with this deck in the beginning were from just flooding the board. Of course, it wasn't as bad as let's say Krenko, Mob Boss, but still with enough time and tokens, you will wear down the opponent.

I do hope that this update leaves with some better experiences, and i'm always open to suggestions as well :)

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.26
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B