Talion, the Kindly Lord
Talion, the Kindly Lord Commander Deck
Talion, the Kindly Lord sits at the center of this deck's strategy, draining opponents of life and fueling your hand every time they cast spells matching the chosen number, which is typically set to 2 or 3 to catch the widest range of threats. The deck layers on additional punishment through enchantments that bleed opponents whenever they cast spells, attack, or play lands, while Mindcrank and Archfiend of Despair amplify life loss into a cascading grind that accelerates opponents toward death. A robust suite of counterspells, theft effects, and flash creatures gives the deck the tools to stay ahead on tempo while converting opponents' own resources — cards, graveyards, and creatures — into fuel for your own game plan.
Decklist
- Drown in the Loch
- 11× Island
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Rankle, Master of Pranks
- Teferi's Tutelage
- Sudden Substitution
- Tainted Isle
- Countersquall
- Mind Grind
- Whispering Madness
- Archfiend of Despair
- Mind's Dilation
- Mnemonic Betrayal
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Painful Quandary
- Counterbalance
- Counterspell
- Insight
- Propaganda
- Snap
- Ghostly Pilferer
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Force of Despair
- Dismember
- Memory Erosion
- Scion of Oona
- Oppression
- Mystic Remora
- Soul Barrier
- Gyruda, Doom of Depths
- Maze of Ith
- Arcane Denial
- Reins of Power
- Dark Ritual
- Thada Adel, Acquisitor
- Psychic Corrosion
- Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
- Mindcrank
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Memory Plunder
- Polluted Bonds
- Talisman of Dominance
- Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
- Soul Shatter
- Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
- Perplexing Test
- Cunning Rhetoric
- March of Swirling Mist
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Nightmare Unmaking
- Thief of Sanity
- Irenicus's Vile Duplication
- Relic of Legends
- Command Tower
- Reliquary Tower
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Exotic Orchard
- Myriad Landscape
- Sunken Hollow
- Temple of Deceit
- Path of Ancestry
- Faerie Mastermind
- Breach the Multiverse
- Windfall
- Alela, Cunning Conqueror
- 11× Swamp
- Malleable Impostor
- Blightwing Bandit
- Bojuka Bog
- Choked Estuary
- Spark Double
- Midnight Clock
- Thieving Skydiver
- Hostage Taker
- Underground River
- Faerie Artisans
- Volatile Stormdrake
- Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
- Toxic Deluge
- Amphibian Downpour
- Sire of Stagnation
- Dress Down
- Ghost Vacuum
- Withering Torment
- High Fae Trickster
- Fellwar Stone
- Lightning Greaves
- Dauthi Voidwalker
- Arcane Signet
- Observed Stasis
- Reanimate
- Swan Song
- Phyrexian Metamorph
- Consult the Star Charts
- Singularity Rupture
- Watery Grave
- Villainous Wrath
- Garland, Royal Kidnapper
- Voracious Tome-Skimmer
- Dream Harvest
- Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
- Quantum Misalignment
- Archnemesis
- Drowned Catacomb
- The Master of Lake-town