Dimir Foodza

Modern Artificer Goodstuff Island Tokens Toolbox UB (Dimir)

Logics

Land (20)

• 4x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Island
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 3x Urza's Saga
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 2x Watery Grave

Creature (22)

• 3x Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
• 1x Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
• 4x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 4x Ovalchase Daredevil
• 2x Riddlesmith
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 3x Thought Monitor
• 4x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Artifact (18)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 3x Blood Fountain
• 4x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 3x Talisman of Dominance
• 4x The Underworld Cookbook

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 2x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creature (1)

• 1x Brazen Borrower

Instant (6)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Flusterstorm
• 2x Metallic Rebuke

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

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{U}{B} Dimir Foodza {U}{B}

Hello, and welcome to the primer for my Dimir Foodza list. The deck utilizes strong, known synergies to overpower your opponent's board and win the game. I'm a big fan of artifacts, graveyards, and high synergy decks, which is what lead me to this list. The name of the deck comes from the 2 namesakes, Urza, Lord High Artificer and Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar who makes food with her cookbook. The deck usually wins though the token:constructs made by Urza's Saga and Urza himself. Without further adieu, let's get into the deck.

Why play Foodza? Show

Is this the strongest deck in the meta? No, likely not. So why play it then?

Well the deck has some really fun play patterns, which involve taking a lot of game actions. It's also a really synergistic deck, while also being surprisingly resilient due to the raw power of your main wincons, one of which is a land, making it harder to interact with. It's able to tax the opponent from multiple different angles, and I personally just find it to be a very fun deck to pilot. It also has a fairly painless land base, where you can mostly fetch islands if you get 1 black source in play, which helps a bit with some of the struggles it might have against aggro.

TLDR: Do you like artifact decks, high synergy decks, or decks that play from the graveyard? Then maybe you should give this deck a look.

Card Choices Show

Creatures

Ovalchase Daredevil - We're starting with Ovalchase Daredevil because they are a core part of a lot of the interactions in the deck. When combined with Riddlesmith or The Underworld Cookbook they adds so much value, even without every casting them. Returning everytime an artifact comes into play means it is free to discard in most cases, and allows us to create an incremental advantage. Also a 4 power blocker or attacker when you run out of steam isn't bad at all, so the floor is fairly low, but the ceiling is sky high. It's one of the most important cards in the deck.

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar - Asmo (as she will be called for the rest of this primer) is our main source of removal, as well as a tutor for The Underworld Cookbook, which we'll talk more about later. She can kill most creatures repeatedly and with ease, and is a 1 mana 3/3 on turn 2 sometimes. The fact that she is removal and also enables massive artifacts, means she is a kill on sight and can easily take over a game if left unchecked. She just does so much for 1 card.

Riddlesmith - Riddlesmith seems innocuous, but she has some pretty strong synergy in the deck. She loots to help you find the action you need, while also turning on Asmo. She also combines with Ovalchase Daredevil to essentially draw you a card for free every time you cast an artifact, which can allow you to have very explosive turns due to the amount of cheap artifacts in the deck. All for the low cost of 2 mana, making them a perfect addition to the deck. It's very possible that it's too janky and not strong enough, but the above synergy has made it feel pretty good in testing.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch - Emry enables you to play a grindy game, and is also usually a part of the deck's more explosive parts. Casting a Mishra's Bauble every turn similar to Lurrus of the Dream-Den creates a card advantage engine, or returning an Aether Spellbomb to interact with your opponent's board. You can usually play her by turn 2. Lastly, her mill not only self enables her, but it also digs toward an Ovalchase Daredevil which makes it even more powerful.

Urza, Lord High Artificer - Urza is just an amazing value engine. He gets you insane amounts of mana, a sink in which to use said mana if you run out of gas, and oh, did I mention he brings a huge construct with him as well. Resolving an Urza usually puts you very far ahead on board as he just does so much. If you haven't played with this card before, I would suggest trying it because he is insane, and can win you the game on his own.

Thought Monitor - You play this for the mid game potential. Usually it will cost you only 1 or 2 mana, and the rate for everything it brings is utterly insane. We can't play too many because multiples in your opener can be clunky, but overall it's just awesome.

Non-Creatures

General Playables Show

Mishra's Bauble - This is one of the most prevalent cards in the current modern meta, mainly for its synergy with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, but it can fulfill a similar role in our deck. It's a 0 mana card that can give you small amounts of information about the opponent's deck, and can, in corner cases, give you a kind of scry. If you have a fetchland that you either don't need to crack to cast a spell, or a second land, you can bauble yourself, to see what you would draw. If you don't like it, you play the fetch and fetch it away. If you like it, play the other land, or wait till the opponent's turn to fetch.

The Underworld Cookbook - This card is so innocuous, but is very powerful. When combined with Ovalchase Daredevil, it allows you to make a food every turn. Since part of the cost of activation is to discard, that means when the food enters the battlefield, the Ovalchase Daredevil will be in the graveyard, which will then trigger, returning it back to your hand. From there, you can use the food to power up construct tokens, add mana off of Urza, Lord High Artificer, kill creatures with Asmo, or, in a pinch use them for their intended purpose and gain life. It also allows you to get back a creature in the mid to late game, allowing you to keep the pressure up on your opponent. It can also be used to discard an artifact, then cast that artifact off of Emry, Lurker of the Loch for essentially a "free" activation. Once you get 2 in play with the daredevil, you can gain so much of an advantage.

Blood Fountain - This card brings a lot of what we want. 2 Artifacts for 1 mana, another discard outlet to cast Asmo. And considering how this deck can grind, recurring 2 creatures is very relevant come longer games. Overall just does too much good to pass up, especially at 1 mana.

Talisman of Dominance - Urza, Lord High Artificer costs 4 mana. This deck only runs 19 lands. Getting this down on turn 2 can enable turn 3 Urzas, and it only is net -1 mana the turn it's played. Overall, it feels important to have ramp to cast Urza in the increasingly fast meta, and Talisman is the best card for it.

Unmarked Grave - This is a new addition to the deck, and is the only non-artifact or creature spell in the deck, but it seems good to me, mainly due to how important Ovalchase Daredevil is to the deck. Adding essentially a 5th copy of the card should increase consistency, and it can also find a Saga-board card to cast if you have Emry, Lurker of the Loch in play.

Saga Board Show

All the cards in this section are toolbox pieces for the Urza's Saga, while most are also fine on their own.

Aether Spellbomb - Mainly here as a 1 mana "removal" spell. And when it's dead, it can draw a card instead. Just a very versatile card. I've even used it to bounce my own Urza, Lord High Artificer or Thought Monitor to replay them for added value. Pretty hard not to justify having it in here.

Nihil Spellbomb - There's a lot of strong graveyard synergy in the current meta, so being able to shut that off in a tutorable way is powerful. It can also just draw a card in the match-ups where it's irrelevant, or even in the ones where it is, so it's just great main.

Shadowspear - Throw this onto a construct token and turn a losing race into a winning one. It also has the corn case of turning off hexproof and indestructible, which in the odd matchup can be relevant. Overall, just too good for creature matchups to not include, and is one of the most common targets for me to tutor.

Springleaf Drum - Sometimes, losing the mana off Urza's Saga can be backbreaking. In these cases, Springleaf Drum allows you to keep up on mana, while conveniently having the creature from the saga to tap it. It can also help power out early Urza, Lord High Artificers, which shouldn't be overlooked.

Lands

Darkslick Shores - In a deck with so few lands, and some that even sacrifice themselves, it feel pretty free to play 4 copies.

Otawara, Soaring City - An untapped land that can also be used as a bounce spell is great. Considering how many legends we run too, it can fairly easily become 1 mana.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire - Similar to the other one, and considering how valuable recursion can be in grinding out opponents, seems like a low opportunity cost to run it.

Urza's Saga - Quite possibly the second most broken card to come out of MH2 (looking at you Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer). It makes 2 massive creatures, then goes and finds whatever artifact you need to either enable your hand, or disable the opponent's deck. And with all the food we can make with Underworld Cookbook synergies, these tokens get out of hand fast. Just an essential card for the archetype and so, so good.

Sideboard

I'm horrible at building sideboards, but I'm pretty happy where this one landed. Obviously, make changes as you need to fit your meta.

Engineered Explosives - This card is so versatile, but the main reason it's here is to kill Rhinos, Dragon's Rage Channelers, Ragavan, Nible Pilferers and Colossus Hammers. Yes it kills our constructs, but when you control it it's easy enough to play around, and the match-ups where it's good, it's sooooo good.

Tormod's Crypt - Another graveyard hate card, mainly for specifically Living End or Dredge, maybe Izzet Tempo.

Grafdigger's Cage - Just a good card to have access to. Does shut off our Emry, Lurker of the Lochs, but I think it's worth it.

Pithing Needle - This card has so much application, and can help us win matches we would otherwise struggle with in game 1. Turning off Planeswalkers, or certain creatures, it's just an extremely useful card. The opportunity cost of running 1 was just too tempting for me to cut, although it could be moved to the sideboard, as it has it's fair chare of dead matchups.

Ceremonious Rejection - Couldn't find much room for Tron hate, so I guess it's something! Likely the only match-up where this comes in, but I don't want to be entirely dead to Tron.

Fatal Push - Efficient removal for those pesky aggro decks.

Flusterstorm - Good for the cascade decks, as a 1 mana counter that they can't Force of Negation back, and helps resolve important spells against control. Overall just a very powerful one mana spell.

Aether Gust - Might take this one out, as it seems narrow and slow for the current meta, but one copy seems fine to me. Seems pretty good against Fury and Crashing Footfalls, so it's probably worth a slot.

Metallic Rebuke - Cheap counter magic for when we need it. Can be held up on turn 2 for 1 mana a lot of the time, so I think it's worth it. Only time will tell though.

Ashiok, Dream Render - Graveyard hoser that also hits the Amulet of Vigor decks if you can get it down early. Figured one is worth to have for sure, might need to find space for a second if it performs well.

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas - Ok, this one is probably not good enough, but Tezz is one of my favourite cards of all time, so I couldn't help but put 1 in the 75. Seems fine against control if you can resolve it I guess, especially because it dodges most Prismatic Endings.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 28 - 6 Rares 18 - 5 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.20
Tokens	Blood, Construct 0/0 C, Food, On an Adventure