Baral, Chief of Compliance
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
"Before I do anything I ask myself, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing."
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- Set
- Secret Lair Drop (SLD #2168)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2025-10-13
- Artist
- Kieran Yanner
- EDHREC rank
- #1,350
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 2
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Rewind
- Unwind
- Disallow
- Mana Leak
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Guile
- Tale's End
- Archmage Emeritus
- Disdainful Stroke
- Ertai's Scorn
- Dissipate
- Negate
- Wavebreak Hippocamp
- Essence Scatter
- Haughty Djinn
- Cancel
- Mana Sculpt
- Dissolve
- Archmage of Runes
- Dispel
- Murmuring Mystic
- Spell Pierce
- Saw It Coming
- Telepathy
- Arcane Denial
- Bane's Contingency
- Mystic Confluence
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Defabricate
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Wash Away
- Isochron Scepter
- Treasure Cruise
- Dismiss
- Cryptic Command
- Mana Drain
- Strix Serenade
- Force of Negation
- Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
- Exclude
- Swan Song
- Narset, Parter of Veils
- Refute
- Force of Will
- Jace's Sanctum
- Lullmage Mentor
- Fierce Guardianship
- Sphinx's Approach
- Naiad of Hidden Coves
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Counterspell
- Sol Ring
- Negate
- Rewind
- Arcane Denial
- Sapphire Medallion
- Unwind
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Arcane Signet
- Archmage Emeritus
- Reliquary Tower
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Disallow
- Mana Leak
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Brainstorm
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Mana Drain
- Thought Vessel
- Swan Song
- Wavebreak Hippocamp
- High Tide
- Frantic Search
- Disdainful Stroke
- Propaganda
- Guile
- Tale's End
- Archmage of Runes
- Rhystic Study
- Cyclonic Rift
- Ertai's Scorn
- Ponder
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Dissipate
- Haughty Djinn
- Murmuring Mystic
- Dispel
- Fierce Guardianship
- Mana Sculpt
- Isochron Scepter
- Spell Pierce
- Essence Scatter
- Cancel
- Force of Negation
- Laboratory Maniac
- Force of Will
- Dissolve
- Preordain
- Cryptic Command
Format legality
Rulings
- 2021-03-19
A spell or ability counters a spell only if it specifically contains the word "counter" in its text. If a spell or ability you control causes all the targets of a spell to become illegal, that spell doesn't resolve but it's not countered.
- 2021-03-19
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the cost of instant and sorcery spells you cast.
- 2021-03-19
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Baral's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.