Silumgar's Vile Offering | V-MH3

Commander / EDH Control Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

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Lands (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hydroelectric Specimen  ^Flip
• 6x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Port of Karfell
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Waterlogged Teachings  ^Flip
• 1x Watery Grave

Redirect (8)

• 1x Divert
• 1x Hydroelectric Specimen  ^Flip
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Misleading Signpost
• 1x Mocking Doppelganger
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Wrong Turn

Defense (5)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Fleeting Reflection
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Tidal Barracuda

Tutors (3)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Waterlogged Teachings  ^Flip

Copy (18)

• 1x Aboleth Spawn
• 1x Astral Dragon
• 1x Copy Land
• 1x Court of Vantress
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Fleeting Reflection
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Manascape Refractor
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mocking Doppelganger
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Schema Thief
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Draw (12)

• 1x Court of Vantress
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Modify Memory
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Siphon Insight
• 1x Stinging Study
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Increasing Steal Options (7)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Interaction (5)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Steal Life (2)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star

Commander (1)

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Copy Land
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Manascape Refractor
• 1x Misleading Signpost
• 1x Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Steal (12)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Modify Memory
• 1x Siphon Insight
• 1x Tempted by the Oriq
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Wrong Turn

Grave Steal/Recursion (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Visions of Dread

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Steal (25)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Annex
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Dream Leash
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Invoke the Winds
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Steal Artifact
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Volition Reins

Copy (6)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry
• 1x Stunt Double

Redirect (5)

• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Sudden Substitution

Increasing Steal Options (4)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Shadowspear

Other (2)

• 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord
• 1x Glaring Spotlight

Life (1)

• 1x Infernal Reckoning

Steal Life (1)

• 1x Exsanguinate

Draw (17)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Hithlain Rope
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Insight
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sire of Stagnation

Lands (10)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x High Market
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Grave Steal/Recursion (6)

• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Finale of Eternity
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Defense (4)

• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Counters (3)

• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Swan Song

Recursion (2)

• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Interaction (16)

• 1x Confounding Conundrum
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Finale of Eternity
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Infernal Reckoning
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Ramp (13)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hithlain Rope
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Tutors (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Grave Steal (4)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Enabler (2)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

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“Join me or die... Or join me after you're dead, that's fine too!”

Welcome to my Dragonlord Silumgar Deck. Everyone is welcome to join!

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Origin

Looking back at my other decks as well as my unused cards, I noticed that I had no deck with the Dimir color pairing yet. Later, I got inspired by other Silumgar decks for their flexibility and interactive strategy. Also, how cool is it to have an actual Elder Dragon at the helm of one of your EDH decks?

I decided to try out my own take on the opulent dragon and this is the current version. Feel free to leave a comment if you think this deck would be better with the addition of certain cards!

Deck Premise

The main strategy of the deck is simple: look at what our opponents play and then steal or copy their things that are of most value to us. This makes it so we can get crazy combinations by cherry-picking from the table, with cards like Blatant Thievery or Phyrexian Metamorph. But also from the graveyard, with cards like Sepulchral Primordial, or from our opponents libraries with cards like Bribery.

Just stealing anything at will might not be the best tactic though. Being the steal deck at the table, you have a lot of avenues for politics. You can avoid confrontations or forge alliances at pivotal times when holding a steal spell. “Not me” can be a reason for opponents to actively seek your alliance as well.

The deck can win Mcguyver style by tinkering together a combo from cards our opponents provide or just by swinging with their big beaters. If that doesn’t work, the deck’s life drain spells such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel provide a backup plan to close out the game, stealing the last remaining life from our opponents. As a last resort, there is the infinite combo of Astral Dragon + Machine God's Effigy, but the lack of tutors keeps it in check for this deck's intended power level.

Defenses

Whatever it is we steal, we want to make sure we have our defenses up; people tend not to like you much when you keep stealing their precious stuff. To that end I included some rattlesnakes and pillowfort cards, like Propaganda and No Mercy (Of course I could not pass up on Nils Hamm's wonderful Baleful Strix in my Dimir deck).

I also added a small counter/control package leaning towards redirection. Silumgar can draw out some hate, specifically single target removal: owners like to get their stolen precious back. I want to make use of this dynamic by incorporating effects that can redirect these spells, like Redirect, also stealing my opponents removal for additional saltiness.

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Another form of defense can be found in the land package. I'm running quite a few lands that can deal with Homeward Path so we can make sure that it does not stay in play for long.

Steal Options

A large part of the steal spells look for opponents graveyards for their targets. But what if there is nothing there that we want to steal? In my playgroup, everyone is playing some form of graveyard hate, so I need to help them a bit in filling or refilling their graveyard. Wheel effects like Windfall really help in this while doubling as proper draw spells.

Another way to increase our options is to make untargetable creatures targetable with Arcane Lighthouse and Detection Tower.

Intented Power Level

This deck is designed to scale well with the strength of the group. Its intent is to be fun to play and to be fun to play against in groups of different power levels. In that sense I am very happy with this deck. I can always bring it out and not cause any big feel-bads.

Category (Jank - Low - Mid - High - Competitive)

Low/Mid

Closing Thoughts

I like the idea that I can take out this deck in any situation. It's an easy pick to play first in a new setting due to the scaling. I also like it that this deck will hardly ever play out the same way twice, making it fun to play on the long term.

Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to leave a comment or to upvote the deck if you liked it!

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GL & HF

Beebles

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 day
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.61
Tokens	Copy Clone, The Monarch, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W
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