Card
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Mana cost {1}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard 1/3
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · AER · #28
- Cheapest printing
- €1.97
- EDHREC salt
- 1.06
- Color identity
- Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
2 known combos.
- Storm-Kiln Artist + Goldspan Dragon + Call to Mind + Déjà Vu + Baral, Chief of Compliance
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia + Displacer Kitten + Vampire Hexmage + Corpse Dance + Baral, Chief of Compliance
Produces: Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count, Infinite tapped creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the cost of instant and sorcery spells you cast. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
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 · Wizards of the Coast
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: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast