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Retro Frame Talrand
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $172.06
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Commander

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Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (tsr) 318

Commander

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Mass Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (rvr) 448
Cultural Exchange

Choose any number of creatures target player controls. Choose the same number of creatures another target player controls. Those players exchange control of those creatures. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery
Cultural Exchange (ody) 79
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (7ed) 72
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (inv) 87

Mass Removal

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Recursion

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Scrivener

When this creature enters, you may return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Scrivener (ody) 100

Recursion

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Cantrip

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Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Impulse (dmr) 287
Leap

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Leap (plst) STH-35
Obsessive Search

Draw a card. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Obsessive Search (tor) 43
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (inv) 64
Peek

Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Peek (ody) 91
Predict

Choose a card name, then target player mills a card. If a card with the chosen name was milled this way, you draw two cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.

Instant
Predict (ody) 94
Quicken

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

Instant
Quicken (rvr) 318
Sapphire Charm

Choose one — • Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. • Target creature gains flying until end of turn. • Target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
Sapphire Charm (plst) MIR-89
Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Draw a card.

Instant
Shadow Rift (plst) TMP-86
Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery
Sleight of Hand (7ed) 98
Sway of Illusion

Any number of target creatures become the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Sway of Illusion (inv) 77
Think Twice

Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Think Twice (inr) 369
Whispers of the Muse

Buyback {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Draw a card.

Instant
Whispers of the Muse (tmp) 103

Cantrip

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Protection

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Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Instant
Abjure (wth) 31
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (7ed) 67
Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (tsr) 393
Meddle

If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature.

Instant
Meddle (ons) 92
Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Memory Lapse (7ed) 88
Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Instant
Turnabout (dmr) 295

Protection

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Removal

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Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Boomerang (7ed) 64
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Instant
Chain of Vapor (ons) 73
Dominate

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less.

Instant
Dominate (nem) 31
Legerdemain

Exchange control of target artifact or creature and another target permanent that shares one of those types with it. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery
Legerdemain (plst) TMP-72
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (tsr) 312
Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Opposition (7ed) 92
Repulse

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Repulse (inv) 70
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (brr) 54
Spelljack

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Instant
Spelljack (jud) 51
Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsummon (7ed) 108

Removal

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Draw

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Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (ons) 66
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (mmq) 61
Brainsurge

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 399
Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Concentrate (ody) 78
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 283
Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Insight (6ed) 75
Inspiration

Target player draws two cards.

Instant
Inspiration (7ed) 81
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (jud) 43
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (plst) USG-100
Words of Wisdom

You draw two cards, then each other player draws a card.

Instant
Words of Wisdom (ody) 114

Draw

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Pump

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Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (brr) 9

Pump

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Spell Synergy

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Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 357
Mirari

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Mirari (ody) 303
Runechanter's Pike

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

Artifact
Runechanter's Pike (brr) 111

Spell Synergy

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Land

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Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Land
Arch of Orazca (tsr) 404
Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cephalid Coliseum (ody) 317
Faerie Conclave

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: This land becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Faerie Conclave (ulg) 139
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (tsr) 407
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ody) 337
Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Lonely Sandbar (ons) 320
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (brc) 190
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (tsr) 408
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Remote Isle

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Remote Isle (usg) 324
Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land
Riptide Laboratory (ons) 322

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (brc) 141
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 286
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (brc) 148
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 430
Retraced Image

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

Sorcery
Retraced Image (tor) 46
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (7ed) 316
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160
Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (plst) PLS-134
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (brc) 167

Ramp

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Tutor

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Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant
Long-Term Plans (plst) SCG-38

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Adaptive Automaton (brr) 1
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (tor) 36
Exclude

Counter target creature spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Exclude (inv) 56
Opportunity

Target player draws four cards.

Instant
Opportunity (7ed) 91
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (brc) 92

Maybeboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"A Talrand spellslinger deck using only cards available in Magic’s original frame and mostly from the time when I originally played in the early 2000s.\n"}]}
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