Baral, Chief of Compliance card art

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.

Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Combos with Baral, Chief of Compliance

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Storm-Kiln Artist Goldspan Dragon Call to Mind Déjà Vu Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia Displacer Kitten Vampire Hexmage Corpse Dance Infinite
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite tapped creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-03-19

    The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the cost of instant and sorcery spells you cast.

  • 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

    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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Baral, Chief of Compliance, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 2
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Vivi Ornitier 1 2 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Baral, Chief of Compliance

11 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Baral, Chief of Compliance — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.