Baral, Chief of Misery

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue

skullmead

Carddraw (22)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Time Spiral

Land (37)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 28x Island
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Wasteland

Protection (3)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Propaganda

Counter (22)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Foil
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Negate
• 1x Out of Bounds
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Removal (7)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Wasteland

Recursion (4)

• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Pull from the Deep

Commander (1)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Wincon (6)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Palinchron

Tutor (3)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystical Tutor

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Clever Impersonator

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About the deck

Upon receiving a - somewhat justified - accusation of a lack of removal and interaction in most of my decks, I decided to switch things up a bit with an almost solely interaction-based one.

Combos and interactions

The main win condition is to control the board until you can draw into Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron through something like Consecrated Sphinx or Archmage Ascension. Then, with the infinite mana which is produced by that combo, you can go for a couple of different wins:

1. A more traditional win, using Blue Sun's Zenith or Stroke of Genius to draw into Laboratory Maniac and then Opt or another cantrip to win the game after landing the LabMan.
2. The less resilient 'Mass Manipulation + steal all of your stuff and murder you with it' kinda win
3. The even weirder win of Mass Manipulation into Curse of the Swine to exile everybody's everything, and then murdering everything with pigs. What can I say, at least it's not BOAR-ing ;D

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.37
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Clue, Construct X/X C, Treasure