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Talrand, Sky Summoner

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard · {2}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

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What Talrand, Sky Summoner actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

What a Talrand, Sky Summoner deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• instant and sorcery spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)

The Talrand, Sky Summoner deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Talrand, Sky Summoner

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Talrand, Sky Summoner

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Talrand, Sky Summoner is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Intruder Alarm + Harmonized Trio168 decks
• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Anhelo, The Painter + Call To Mind + Mystic Retrieval + Walk The Aeons29 decks
• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Anhelo, The Painter + Call To Mind + Mystic Retrieval + Time Warp18 decks
• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Anhelo, The Painter + Call To Mind + Mystic Retrieval + Temporal Manipulation10 decks
• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Anhelo, The Painter + Call To Mind + Mystic Retrieval + Capture Of Jingzhou4 decks
• Talrand, Sky Summoner + Anhelo, The Painter + Call To Mind + Mystic Retrieval + Time Stretch1 decks

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