Stealing your wincon (Dimir EDH)

Commander / EDH Budget Mill Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

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Instant (13)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Twincast

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Coerced Confession
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Pilfered Plans
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Psychic Intrusion
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Telemin Performance

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Fool's Demise
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Propaganda

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (22)

• 1x Cairn Wanderer
• 1x Cemetery Puca
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Cryptoplasm
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dominating Licid
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Master Thief
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nightveil Specter
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Riddlekeeper
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter

Land (37)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 11x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Shimmering Grotto
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Commander (1)

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Introduction

This deck was made as a budget commander deck for MTGO. Because it was made on a budget, it might be a little bit behind on other decks. That's why most of our strategy is taking advantage of other players' decks.

The Commander

The leader of this deck is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. While he requires some work to actually be usefull, (our opponents have to put creatures in their graveyard somehow), he has almost endless posibilities. Opponent mills a fatty? My commander is now a fatty. The hexproof is a nice bonus that keeps Lazav safe from spot removal.

The Gameplan

As mentioned in the introduction, we want to steal our opponents stuff. We can steal cards from our opponents library with Nightveil Specter, Thada Adel, Acquisitor (very handy to steal mana rocks), Praetor's Grasp to take out some combo pieces or well... anything, Talent of the Telepath and Telemin Performance.

For a lot of our cards, including our commander, we want our opponents to put cards in their graveyard. We achieve this with Consuming Aberration, Evil Twin, Mindshrieker, Nephalia Drownyard, Grisly Spectacle, Perplex, Psychic Strike, Coerced Confession, Pilfered Plans, Talent of the Telepath (again) and Memory Erosion.As you can see, all of these cards work in a slightly different way to fill our opponents graveyard, each with their own upsides, be it draw, control or the ability to tutor.

When our opponents finally have some good stuff in their graveyard, the real fun can begin. See a big bad brute in there? Take it. (Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, Puppeteer Clique, Sepulchral Primordial, Beacon of Unrest, Animate Dead)

See a strong spell in there? Steal it. (Chancellor of the Spires, Diluvian Primordial, Psychic Intrusion, Spelltwine)

Opponent has a strong creature in play? So do I now. (Clone, Cryptoplasm, Dominating Licid, Evil Twin, Vesuvan Shapeshifter, Stolen Identity, Followed Footsteps)

Conclusion

Keep your deck cheap by letting your opponents play the expensive cards and keep every game exciting. You never know which cards you will play this game.

+1 and suggestions are very welcome!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.72
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Lazav the Copy, dimir edh