Dimir Assassin Flicker v2

Commander / EDH Aggro Casual Jank UB (Dimir)

Sarowa

Instant (22)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Call to Heel
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Displace
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Game Plan
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Illness in the Ranks
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x March of the Machines
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Virulent Plague

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render *f-pre*

Creature (10)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 8x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Instant (41)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Artificer's Epiphany
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Consuming Vortex
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Drown in Shapelessness
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Force Away
• 1x Glint
• 1x Hubris
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Just the Wind
• 1x Karn's Touch
• 1x Leave in the Dust
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Part the Veil
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Rescind
• 1x Rescue
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Snap
• 1x Snapback
• 1x String of Disappearances
• 1x Turn into a Pumpkin
• 1x Tyrant's Scorn
• 1x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x Voyage's End
• 1x Wipe Away
• 1x Word of Undoing

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Theft of Dreams
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Unmoored Ego

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Corrupted Zendikon
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Tezzeret's Touch
• 1x Trail of Evidence
• 1x Wind Zendikon

Artifact (11)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Creature (19)

• 1x Azra Smokeshaper
• 1x Balduvian Frostwaker
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Mist-Syndicate Naga
• 1x Moonblade Shinobi
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Land (2)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Castle Locthwain

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Attack with Etrata, the Silencer as much as possible and protect her as efficiently as possible.

This is a slight revision of this deck, dropping many tutors in favour of card draw/wheel/timetwister effects.

Vanishing is still the ultimate way to avoid returning Etrata to the command zone. Beware Krosan Grip.

Crystal Shard and Erratic Portal are nice repeatable bounce effects that help keep Etrata out of the command zone. Ideally you will recast her immediately. Otherwise, a flicker/blink effect may be preferable in the early game. They can also deal with problematic creatures on your opponents' boards if they are tapped out, and otherwise discourage tapping out. Portal of Sanctuary, Sanctum of Eternity, and the various Ninjas will work in a pinch for bouncing Etrata after attacking, but be sure to have other spells in hand that can protect her on an opponent's turn should you replay her.

Be particularly wary of any board wipes, because only bounce, blink, and phasing effects can save her from those, while flicker effects cannot.

This deck has particularly weak defense to attacking creatures. An early Propaganda can help with this tremendously. Toxic Deluge is a nice panic button. If the board gets flooded with tokens, Echoing Truth can help deal with at least some of them for a turn. Illness in the Ranks and Virulent Plague can almost completely negate any go-wide tokens deck.

Against decks that don't play non-token creatures besides their commander, or stop playing them due to the threat Etrata represents, Etrata's only viable win conditions are: A) exiling artifacts animated via March of the Machines or B) commander damage. Commander damage generally takes 7 hits per player.

Glaring Spotlight and Arcane Lighthouse can help deal with difficult to target creatures, like Narset, Enlightened Master.

Sometimes Etrata can keep a planeswalker under control, but otherwise, The Elderspell is useful against Superfriends decks.

Ashiok, Dream Render is largely intended as grave and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim hate.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.65
Tokens	Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Deck Ref
Based on	Dimir Assassin Flicker Toolbox Sarowa EDH