Talrand Extreme Budget

Commander / EDH* Budget Mono-Blue

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Counterspells (9)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rewind

Deck-Stacking (4)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Index
• 1x Prescient Chimera
• 1x Psychic Spiral

Defense (9)

• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Favorable Winds
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Gravitational Shift
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Draw/Hand (15)

• 1x Amass the Components
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Divination
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Instants/Sorceries-Matter (11)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Eyes of the Watcher
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand
• 1x Trail of Evidence

Non-Categorized-Land (34)

• 34x Island

Ramp (9)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Removal (8)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Scourge of Fleets

Commander (1)

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Other (7)

• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Glimmer of Genius
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge

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Budget Goal: Talrand for <$20.
About the Deck: This deck is more focused on a single thing than many decks are. Simply counter the spells of your opponents, get Drake tokens for doing so, and set up a defensive barrier along the way. Then, wreck face with Drakes. There are a lot of instants/sorceries that can easily be switched out for other cards depending on what you need for your meta. For instance, if you have somebody that plays a God as their commander, you may want more enchantment removal, like Swan Song. If you have a Melek, Izzet Paragon or Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind player, you may want more cheap anti-instant/sorcery spells, like Psychic Rebuttal or Dispel.
Make sure you keep some mana open for other players' turns, so you can deny them of their toys, and give yourself Drakes. If you just want to play instants that don't really affect the other players, like Impulse or Anticipate, just do so on the end step of the player going just before you. That way your opponents have less time (and available mana) to respond to your Drake summoning, and they'll be able to attack when it becomes your turn.
Another good thing, if you have either Archaeomancer or Mnemonic Wall out (or both), you can use Ghostly Flicker on them to get some cards back.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
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