This Baral, Chief of Compliance deck is classic mono-blue. When you say you're playing mono-blue to your friends, or particularly, Baral, Chief of Compliance, this is probably very close to what they're thinking and hating you for. It's chock full of counterspells. It's literally a deck full of answers that says no until it wins. It wins with Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. It's got four Polymorph variations and six tutors, so you often see our Praetorian pal around turn four. I intend to sit at a table with decks trying to Storm, Ad Nauseam or High Tide about that early. That's why I included the counterspells decks use when they have to put on their big boy pants, like Flusterstorm and Mental Misstep. I've never built a deck that wanted to need those sorts of cards -- in fact, I think they represent a game that bears little in common with Commander. Despite that, I do hold the Commander concept dear, and couldn't forsake theme and style, and I think this is a deck Baral would be proud to call his own - why, if I lived in Kaladesh, I imagine a deck like this would make me his deputy in no time. Baron Cappuccino, Deputy of Compliance. It has a nice ring to it. What I don't want is opponents actually casting any spells or having any fun -- not if I can help it. Not if Baral can help it.
1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
//Artifact (1)
1 Sensei's Divining Top
//Instant (44)
1 Aetherize
1 Aetherspouts
1 Arcane Denial
1 Brainstorm
1 Capsize
1 Cryptic Command
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Delay
1 Dig Through Time
1 Dispel
1 Dream Fracture
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Flusterstorm
1 Forbid
1 Force of Will
1 Frantic Search
1 Intuition
1 Long-Term Plans
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
1 Memory Lapse
1 Mental Misstep
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mystic Confluence
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Negate
1 Nix
1 Opt
1 Polymorphist's Jest
1 Pongify
1 Rapid Hybridization
1 Reality Shift
1 Remand
1 Reweave
1 Rewind
1 Snap
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
1 Supreme Will
1 Swan Song
1 Synthetic Destiny
1 Turn to Frog
1 Unsubstantiate
1 Unwind
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
//Enchantment (1)
1 Search for Azcanta
//Planeswalker (1)
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
//Sorcery (17)
1 Baral's Expertise
1 Careful Study
1 Chart a Course
1 Compulsive Research
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Mass Polymorph
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystic Speculation
1 Personal Tutor
1 Pieces of the Puzzle
1 Polymorph
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 River's Rebuke
1 Serum Visions
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Treasure Cruise
//Land (34)
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Field of Ruin
1 Ghost Quarter
28 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Wasteland