Dimir Pterry Control

Standard Control Tempo UB (Dimir)

lucrone

Sorcery (13)

• 4x Discovery / Dispersal
• 3x Duress
• 2x Enter the God-Eternals
• 4x Thought Erasure

Planeswalker (6)

• 3x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 2x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Land (22)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 8x Island
• 6x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Creature (10)

• 2x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 4x Pteramander
• 4x Thief of Sanity

Instant (9)

• 4x Opt
• 3x Tyrant's Scorn
• 2x Vraska's Contempt

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 3x Moment of Craving
• 2x Negate
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Cry of the Carnarium
• 1x Duress
• 2x The Elderspell

Creature (2)

• 2x Hostage Taker

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Dimir control/tempo style deck that I use for casual standard showdown. Haven't gotten a lot of reps in yet, but went 3-0 at my first standard showdown with the deck, and it has about a 60% win rate at platinum on arena with my noob piloting skills. I appreciate any feedback and suggestions to optimize.

Creatures

4x Pteramander

• Great 1-drop flier that scales to a 5/5 very quickly with all the sorceries and instants in the deck list
• Combos well with Saheeli, Sublime Artificer to add counters to the tokens she generates

4x Thief of Sanity

• High value card that the opponent must deal with quickly
• Dies easily, but we can live with that for the pay off
• Combos great with Saheeli, Sublime Artificer to double its effect and provide pseudo haste

2x God-Eternal Kefnet

• 4/5 flier for 4 that is very hard to remove
• The effect is great for many sorceries/instants in the deck list
• 1 is not enough, but flooding the hand is bad, so 2 seems right
• Of course, don't copy with Saheeli, Sublime Artificer (legend rule)

Planeswalkers

2x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

• As mentioned, great with card:Ptermander and Thief of Sanity
• Also provides nice chump blockers against aggro and creates some pressure against control
• Kinda bad when the hand floods with these, so I stick with 2

3x Narset, Parter of Veils

• Had this in the sideboard, but it's so good I decided to main deck
• Floor is a search and gain 3 life for 3 mana
• Great against control
• Not too bad against aggro (helps look for answers and pseudo life gain)
• 3rd is better than running a Search for Azcanta   in testing. I've been encountering a good bit of land destruction and enchantment hate that is better avoided

1x Karn, Scion of Urza

• Good draw ability
• Great synergy with Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• Experimental, may cut

1x Ugin, the Ineffable

• Catch all removal
• Draw power and chump blockers
• Can put pressure on control as well
• Only downside is kinda expensive

Other Spells

Hand Disruption

• 3x Duress - Great in the current planewalker heavy meta. 3 feels right
• 4x Thought Erasure - Staple for UB. Removes threats and smooths draws. 4 is a must

Removal

• 3x Tyrant's Scorn - Efficient spot removal that hits more early targets than Cast Down . The bounce effect is good for later as well
• 2x Vraska's Contempt - Catch all creature/planeswalker with exile and life gain. Expensive to cast, but hard to find something better. Any more than 2 main deck makes us a little slow against aggro
• 2x Enter the God-Eternals - Blows out aggro decks. If this resolves against them, you almost always win. Worst case its not entirely useless against control since we can target an adapter Pteramander or God-Eternal Kefnet without killing them, or sacrifice a Saheeli, Sublime Artificer Servo token

Digging

• 4x Opt - Scry and a cantrip. Feeds the Saheeli, Sublime Artificer and Pteramander fast
• 3x Discovery / Dispersal - Smooths out draw with surveil and cantrip. Again, feeds the Saheeli, Sublime Artificer and Pteramander fast

Mana Base

With 8 rare lands ( Watery Grave and Drowned Catacomb ) and 22 total lands, there are 16 blue sources and 14 black sources. Scry from Opt and surveil from Discovery / Dispersal and Thought Erasure ensure we make the early land drops consistently with only 22 lands. Might need a Field of Ruin depending on the meta, but it is already a stretch to cast Cry of the Carnarium when we need to side it in against aggro. Definitely cannot afford to drop any blue sources.

Sideboard

More in-depth plan to come. For now, my inclusions and reasoning:

• 3x Cry of the Carnarium - Early board wipe mainly for white and red decks to help us stabilize. Also good against Phoenix decks
• 1x Disdainful Stroke - This is a flex slot. I like this against any of the god eternals
• 1x Duress - Against heavy control I'll bring this in. Against planeswalker midrange, I'll usually drop a Thought Erasure for one since it is a little faster
• 2x Hostage Taker - Best against midrange creature decks. Might be worth main decking if the meta shifts to be more creatures
• 3x Moment of Craving - Always bring in against low to the ground aggro (RDW, mono white, etc.)
• 2x Negate - For control match ups
• 2x The Elderspell - We don't have a lot of planeswalkers for this to benefit, but it is a very powerful planeswalker board wipe against any superfriends deck
• 1x Vraska's Contempt - An extra for slower match ups. 3 main deck is too slow against aggro, but it is great to have against most midrange and control

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 5 Rares 20 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Zombie Army 0/0 B