Talrand budget baseline

Commander / EDH

SirSelah

Instant (37)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Foil
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Opt
• 1x Overwhelming Denial
• 1x Peek
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Spin into Myth
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Void Shatter
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Artifact (10)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Hall of Triumph
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thunderstaff
• 1x War Horn
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Favorable Winds
• 1x Gravitational Shift
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Sunken City

Land (40)

• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 38x Island
• 1x Memorial to Genius

Commander (1)

Creature (5)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Paragon of Gathering Mists
• 1x Soulblade Djinn
• 1x Sprite Noble

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Talrand's Invocation

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(Hoo boy did I not wanna do work today ha ha.)

I hit the budget first try whoo!

Some notes:

• The vast majority of this deck is at instant speed. Hold up mana until the end of your last opponent's turn when possible before you play a cantip. Don't dump your hand ASAP tho, you won't need as many drakes as you think and you don't want to make yourself a target.

• Don't cast Talrand ASAP without protection, he's just going to die. Wait until you have some protection ready/in hand before casting.

• The pump artifacts are innocent enough to be dropped early on curve. The pump creatures may need to wait until you go for the kill depending on the table.

• Don't counter things just for the sake of countering them! Only counter things that will end the game or threaten you directly.

• Upgrades involve Reliq Tower, Cyclonic Rift, Disallow, Stifle, Gush or if you want to go a different direction check out the Wizard tribal builds that are floating around.

• If the deck wears thin you can further upgrade it by converting it into The Locust God which is hella fun.

Enjoy!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Construct X/X C, Drake 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B