Dismember

Instant

({BP} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

BotaNickill on Tam and the Friends

1 week ago

I'm working up a Tam, the Possibility Superfriends deck today! Figured I wouldn't be the only one! Have you had a chance to play it yet? I'm excited for Superfriends to be back. I had an Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip Walkers deck a while back, but I Dismembered it to make something else. Tam seems like she could get those Friends to ultimate more often perhaps? When it says planeswalker types does it mean multiple copies of Jace only count as one type of Jace? I'm gonna build it on Arena as well, and that should give me better info as to how it works. Anywho, I think You have a good list going! I would probably add an Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip for the bridge side mostly of course, the new Loyal Tutor seems like a no brainer. Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres & Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage seems good. I'll work on my list today and see if I can get it posted so we can compare notes!! Hope it plays well for you!

BotaNickill on Tam and the Friends

1 week ago

I'm working up a Tam, the Possibility Superfriends deck today! Figured I wouldn't be the only one! Have you had a chance to play it yet? I'm excited for Superfriends to be back. I had an Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip Walkers deck a while back, but I Dismembered it to make something else. Tam seems like she could get those Friends to ultimate more often perhaps? When it says planeswalker types does it mean multiple copies of Jace only count as one type of Jace? I'm gonna build it on Arena as well, and that should give me better info as to how it works. Anywho, I think You have a good list going! I would probably add an Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip for the bridge side mostly of course, the new Loyal Tutor seems like a no brainer. Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres & Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage seems good. I'll work on my list today and see if I can get it posted so we can compare notes!! Hope it plays well for you!

Deck_Building_Dude on Drink Death Like Wine

2 months ago

If you're willing to splurge, making your swamps Snow-Covered Swamp and adding Extraplanar Lens is a disgusting way to make a ton of mana. Of course Nyx Lotus is cheaper, but nobody expects Extraplanar Lens/Snow-Covered Swamps. Makes it so you get all the black mana from your swamps while their swamps still only make 1 black per tap. Mana cost is comparable, and the best part is if someone wipes the board, you can still make a ton of Mana. Plus any cards in here that look for specifically swamps or basic swamps also find Snow-Covered Swamps.

And I'm gonna throw in my obligatory "add Dismember it's a 1 mana 4 life kill spell for things with toughness 5 or less" because Dismember deserves more love!

Kcin on Why are These Cards Banned …

5 months ago

As a player of Drannith MagistrateGC, I definitely disagree with banning him. He is strong, and therefore a massive removal target. Yes, he can shut players and certain strategies down but he "dies to removal" (not to be cliched, but it is true). He dies to Murder, Dismember, all destroy all creatures type board wipes, he can be Counterspelled, Lightning Bolted, Swords to Plowsharesed, or Path to Exiled. He is strong but fragile. I am lucky if he sticks for even one turn, much less a full cycle of turns. And I use Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC for the one commander deck he is in. So I have plenty of protection and counters to keep him. Even with all that, it's still a huge target and really hard for me to keep him. In the mulitplayer sense of commander, if your pod allows him to stay, and does not provide any answers to him, they deserve to lose because of him. He FORCES your opponents to waste resources, he is a key stax piece for resource denial, forced resource mis-management, and he can also allow for your beaters to stick around more, by forcing removal spells to be used on him instead of something like Consecrated SphinxGC or similar.

DragonMaster420 on A Means to an End

7 months ago

i was thinking Temur Battle Rage and Claim / Fame. Wrenn and Six to replay your fetch lands. if you decide against red, Dismember and Grim Tutor could be useful.

TheVectornaut on Fast Demons

9 months ago

I'm not sure what format this is intended for so I'm sorry if any of my suggestions aren't legal. Most decks aiming for big demons opt for reanimation over other turbo out options, but I think you can make it work for a casual deck. I like Quicksilver Amulet for instance and I think you could also consider Heartless Summoning, Ancient Cellarspawn, or Crypt Ghast. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx makes Coffers slightly worse but I can't imagine it being a bad inclusion with so many black pips. Another option would be to include more demons in the low mana range so that you have some board presence early. Some that came to mind are Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire for tutoring, Master of the Feast if you want to lean into a Underworld Dreams/Orcish BowmastersGC plan, Desecration Demon for stats and potential board denial, and Nightmare Shepherd for removal insulation. Really though, if you want more consistency, the best thing you can do is add more copies of your best cards. This does incentivize picking a clear direction and you don't want to consolidate too much here lest you get too low on unique names for Contract. If I was building this, I think I'd go to 4 copies of Spawn of Mayhem and 2-4 The Speed Demon with a focus on dealing damage or life loss to get their relevant triggers. Changeling Outcast is perfect for this so I'd up them too. Removal like Smallpox or the safer Geth's Verdict can incur life loss, and I do recommend upgrading from Sorin's Thirst and Cremate anyway. Fatal Push, Dismember, and Feed the Swarm are all options with varying strengths and weaknesses. That's just one direction too. You could just as easily build around foretell with Dream Devourer and some symmetry-breaking Damnations, Rite of Consumption effects with overstatted guys like Abyssal Persecutor, or pure devotion with Gray Merchant and Bloodletter alongside tools like The Meathook Massacre or Leyline of the Void. If you pick the handful of demons you enjoy playing the most and run more copies, you'll have more games actually playing with them and can save your tutors for emergencies more often.

Cloudy2024 on Colorless Eldrazi Tron

1 year ago

and 1 copy of All is Dust and some Dismembers cover all of your control

CommanderNeyo on Lord Tiago, Forsaken Spellbinder (Updated Again)

1 year ago

Personally, I would remove the following:

• Vampire Hexmage, as it only works well with Thing in the Ice  ^Flip - and is otherwise a dead card. If you really want the effect, you could consider Heartless Act, which works as removal or can trigger Thing in the Ice  ^Flip at instant-speed.

• Murder, at 3 mana is a high price to pay to remove a creature, and there is more efficient removal out there. Consider cards like Fatal Push, Dismember, or Infernal Grasp

• Dash Hopes, giving your opponent the choice to keep their spell is not ideal for a control deck like this one.

I would put 2 or 3 Murktide Regents in the mainboard, as the card is a powerful wincon.

Psychic Frog should probably come out of the maybeboard, as it works well with Murktide and is a powerful card draw engine and wincon in its own right.

You might also consider cards like Duress, Thoughtseize, or Inquisition of Kozilek to rip apart your opponents' hands.

While you may not want to net-deck, you may want to check out what are popular decks so you can tune your sideboard to match (or just go to your LGS and see what they play there).