Stern Dismissal

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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
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Stern Dismissal

Instant

Return target creature or enchantment an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

wallisface on uuu

4 weeks ago

Some thoughts:

  • as a monocolored deck, there’s no point in running Evolving Wilds or Terramorphic Expanse, in fact as they make lands enter tapped, they actively hurt you by slowing you down.

  • cards like Lofty Denial and Lookout's Dispersal are incredibly weak and unreliable - you’re better off running Mana Leak.

  • your creature count is very high for a control deck, which will often mean you run out of ways to disrupt your opponent and get overwhelmed. Mist of your creatures are all incredibly underwhelming also, all being very small, easy to kill, and do-nothing. You would be far better-off running much less creatures, but then having those creatures that you do run be threatening, like Tolarian Terror.

  • cards like Stern Dismissal, Unsummon, and Divide by Zero are all really, really bad in a control deck, as the archetype only really wins by attrition and card advantage, and these bounce spells are giving you card disadvantage - meaning you’ll run out of resources first and lose the game. If you’re having problems answering stuff on-board, you’re better-off with something like Witness Protection

mitomeg on Help me Build the ultimate …

1 year ago

Darker Depths

Want to build an evil deck with Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage (no Thespian's Stage).

  • I don't know what other 4 cards i can add to reach 60 cards;

  • I don't know if 12 tutors are good or bad;

  • My opponents will play Blood Moons, maybe cirle of protection and some kind of edict or exile effect;

  • I'm also afraid of some flyer 1/1 with protection (mother of runes can provide that);

  • Stern Dismissal is here to get rid of something i can't discard in time (probably using basics in some mathcup to beat a sneaked Blood Moon;

  • Probably my plan B is using discard + Reanimate and hope to hit something big enough to win if Depths is off.

What do you guys think?

BioProfDude on Thousand Years of Phoenix

2 years ago

I think Sprite Dragon is just better than Storm-Kiln Artist. With this many instants and sorceries, you should probably run 4 of them. I think also putting something like Essence Scatter into at least the sideboard would be wise as there are sooo many creature decks running around right now in Pioneer. At least a couple of Fading Hopes and/or Stern Dismissals (a great answer for Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  Flip).

Cool deck! +1 from me!

Vicarian on Raffine Metaschemer

2 years ago

Stern Dismissal I wouldn't bother playing too many of. That's highly situational, and could help you get lethal damage through by bouncing a critter. It's also not a counterspell. In a similar vein, Essence Scatter is useless if you're going up against a control player (who play very few, if any creatures, and the ones they do play usually come with the "Can't be countered" ability). See Chromium, the Mutable, Hullbreaker Horror, etc. If your meta is creature heavy, then by all means. Though I do have a preference for counterspells that exile instead of having the spell hit the graveyard. Ertai's Scorn is really useful in matchups against burn, or against fast aggro decks, but again is situational. If Lilly is your bane, then you could consider Negate which is effective against walkers for 2 CMC.

Titus7007 on Raffine Metaschemer

2 years ago

Vicarian thanks for checking it out.

What do you think of cheaper counter spells like Essence Scatter and Stern Dismissal over Dissipate and Ertai's Scorn?

wallisface on

2 years ago

Grends27 a way to get-around lowering your curve is to drastically increase your ramp. Adding in 8-10 mana dorks like Noble Hierarch, Birds of Paradise, Utopia Sprawl, Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic would greatly help your ability to run a higher curve (noting that including them will likely mean having to pull out some of your higher costing cards in the process anyway).

Cards i think specifically aren’t worth it (they’re either too weak, or don’t belong in the deck) include: Teferi, Timeless Voyager (really bad & really expensive mana-wise), Stormwing Entity (is a good card but doesn’t belong here), Teferi's Ageless Insight (just overcomplicating your deck for no reason), Stern Dismissal (card disadvantage), Neutralize and Saw it Coming (3-mana counterspells are bad, but in any case i don’t see this deck ever being able to keep-up mana, as you’ll be almost always spending it all on your turn).

I would also suggest ditching most/all of those creatures requiring 6 mana to mutate - that’s just such a high bar, and none of those creatures strike me as particularly good anyway.

GearhartGGWP on

2 years ago

Stern Dismissal in this list is a great utility card, can remove opponents things or save my own making copies in the process.

Having multiple Orvar's in play and hitting the original with Stern nets me Orvar's while saving me from commander tax to replay it.

Barrin often lets me save my board from board wipes or allows me to clear some blockers to get through with some damage if the game goes long.

Very rarely would I rather have removal over proactive play for this list and more often than not bouncing something is enough to win. Comes with the added benefit mentioned before since it isn't destroying I can use it on my own creatures for added Orvar triggers or protecting from removal.

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