MTG Deck of the Week: “Dimir Midrange” – Deal with the Devil

Check out the current trending decks in Magic: The Gathering! This week, “Dimir Midrange” makes plots and kills lots…of creatures.

Welcome Magic: the Gathering players! We’re back to showcase one of the top decks of the week for competitive Magic. We have the top lists being played on MTGO, what’s winning, and the decks that won the major events this last week. So get your playmat ready, set your spindown to 20, and dive into the data, brought to us by TCGPlayer.com.

Our deck of the week is “Dimir Midrange” by _IlNano_, which is currently trending on TCGPlayer. The deck came in first place during the MTGO Standard Challenge 32 on August 6th.

Decklist

3 Cut Down
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Evolved Sleeper
4 Faerie Mastermind
1 Gix’s Command
3 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
3 Go for the Throat
2 Graveyard Trespasser
1 Island
3 Kaito Shizuki
2 Liliana of the Veil
4 Make Disappear
2 Mirrex
1 Otawara, Soaring City
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4 Shipwreck Marsh
8 Swamp
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
2 Tenacious Underdog
4 Underground River

Sideboard

1 Breach the Multiverse
4 Disdainful Stroke
4 Duress
1 Gix’s Command
1 Graveyard Trespasser
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Phyrexian Arena

Deck Notes

I love when these Blue/Black draw decks cross my feed, they’re always nasty. The combo of Gix and Sheoldred is an incredible dark deal, and you can tell this deck runs on a razor’s edge. It’s deadly to both the wielder and the opponent, but as with all Dimir, there’s always a plan.

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Author: Clint Lienau

From North Carolina to Texas and back to North Carolina again, Clint lives the life of a traveling artist. An avid gamer, writer, actor, pyrotechnician, and general nerd, he has finally turned his love of EDH into a career. When not busy being a clueless cowboy, Winterfell Bannermen, or whatever else acting life throws at him, he enjoys reading folklore from around the world, writing narratives for his Wargaming armies, or running D&D 5e games as a professional DM. Look for his storytelling podcast, By the Dancing Fire, or find him on Twitch at FeybornPhyrexian, where he produces MTG content.