Talrand

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My Talrand build. Probably quite a bit different than most. I emphasize instants and sorceries that draw cards, and don't do much in the way of counterspells and extra turn effects.
(The deck is indeed better if you run a bunch of counterspells and extra turn effects, but then it's very boring for the other players.)
 
Mana Acceleration (11): General (1): Instants/Sorceries (50): Sideboard (Omitted/Cut card ideas):
1 Caged Sun 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner 1 AEther Gale 1 Distant Memories
1 Cloud Key   1 Blue Sun's Zenith 1 Library of Lat-Nam
1 Extraplanar Lens Creatures / Non-Instants/Sorceries (2): 1 Blustersquall 1 Petals of Insight
1 Gauntlet of Power 1 Sakashima the Impostor 1 Braingeyser 1 Covenant of Minds
1 Sapphire Medallion 1 Sphinx-Bone Wand 1 Breaking Wave 1 Thassa's Bounty
1 Stone Calendar 1 Cast Through Time 1 Brilliant Plan 1 Recurring Insight
1 Sword of the Animist   1 Capsize 1 Train of Thought
1 Worn Powerstone   1 Clone Legion 1 Twincast
1 Arcane Melee   1 Concentrate 1 Ancestral Memories
1 High Tide   1 Cryptic Command 1 Mind Games
1 Jace's Sanctum   1 Curse of the Swine 1 Snap
    1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Walk the Aeons
Lands (35):   1 Distant Melody 1 Time Stretch
1 City of Shadows   1 Distorting Wake 1 Time Warp
1 Reliquary Tower   1 Dragonlord's Prerogative 1 Temporal Manipulation
1 Terrain Generator   1 Ensnare 1 Temporal Mastery
1 Thawing Glaciers   1 Fact or Fiction 1 Capture of Jingzhou
1 Vesuva   1 Fathom Trawl 1 Beacon of Tomorrows
29 Island   1 Flow of Ideas 1 Time Stop
1 Sol Ring   1 Gigadrowse 1 Rite of Replication
    1 Gridlock 1 Reset
    1 Icy Blast 1 Stolen Identity
    1 Intellectual Offering 1 Fathom Trawl
    1 Interpret the Signs 1 Thassa's Bounty
    1 Into the Roil 1 Train of Thought
    1 Inundate 1 Call to Mind
    1 Jace's Ingenuity 1 Timetwister
    1 Keep Watch 1 Time Spiral
    1 Last Thoughts 1 Temporal Cascade
    1 Mind Spring 1 Time Reversal
    1 Ojutai's Summons  
    1 Opportunity  
    1 Polymorphist's Jest  
    1 Reality Spasm  
    1 Reset  
    1 Rise of Eagles  
    1 Rite of Replication  
    1 Sleep  
    1 Stolen Identity  
    1 Stroke of Genius  
    1 Talent of the Telepath  
    1 Talrand's Invocation  
    1 Temporal Fissure  
    1 Tidings  
    1 Time Stop  
    1 Turnabout  
    1 Void Squall  
    1 Wash Out  
    1 Whispers of the Muse  
    1 Wipe Away