Silumgar's Palace

Commander / EDH Casual Control UB (Dimir)

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Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 13x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Creature (11)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury *f-pre*
• 1x Master Thief
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces

Instant (17)

• 1x Annul
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Peek
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Saw it Coming

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Illusory Gains
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Lay Claim
• 1x Mind Control
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Volition Reins

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Languish
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rags / Riches
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Tempted by the Oriq
• 1x Worst Fears

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

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This deck is of course built around theft and clones. It is a "Control" deck in the most literal sense. I built it for 'fun' and casual play but I tried to optimize it for a mid-high power level table. I was mainly inspired by the different playstyle and game dynamic it offers. Players might hesitate to play their most powerful creatures if they know we can just steal them, especially if we have enough mana for Dragonlord Silumgar . If you don't see any high-power on-theme cards that you would run in this deck, it's because this deck has a "budget".

The primary theme of this deck is gaining control of things, and just cheating opponent's stuff onto our board in general. cards like Agent of Treachery and Blatant Theivery can take any permanent you want.

While I was building this deck, I questioned the purpose of building any sort of "destroy" removal, but I decided to keep just three cards that read "Destroy target creature" (mostly because they are just more efficient than the "control" based effects) namely Feed the Swarm for it's versatility.

I do not have any cards that recur things from this deck's own graveyard because I thought building around that was silly given how many card types are in this deck and how there are no consistent "Return any card from your graveyard to your hand" effects in . I figure that if we really need stuff in our yard that bad we can just Phyrexian Metamorph an opponent's Eternal Witness or Memory Plunder another opponent's Regrowth .

Cards like Rags / Riches and tempted by the Oric are meant to hate on lots of small things at once, as those are beneath Silumgar's notice and not worth taking. Any functional board wipe in the deck also fulfills this niche if tokens get too out of hand.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.80
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W