Dimir Assassin Flicker Budget

Commander / EDH Aggro Budget Casual Jank UB (Dimir)

Sarowa

Creature (11)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Deathbringer Regent
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Spectral Sailor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

Land (37)

• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 14x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Salt Marsh
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Illness in the Ranks
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Virulent Plague

Artifact (14)

• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Cultivator's Caravan
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Fountain of Ichor
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Instant (24)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Call to Heel
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Negate
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Snap
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Game Plan
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Whispering Madness

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x March of the Machines

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Land (17)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel

Instant (6)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall

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Attack with Etrata, the Silencer as much as possible and protect her as efficiently as possible.

This is a budget version of this deck of this deck.

Vanishing is the ultimate way to avoid returning Etrata to the command zone. Beware Krosan Grip.

Crystal Shard and Erratic Portal are nice repeatable bounce effects that help keep Etrata out of the command zone. Ideally you will recast her immediately. Otherwise, a flicker/blink effect may be preferable in the early game. They can also deal with problematic creatures on your opponents' boards if they are tapped out, and otherwise discourage tapping out. Portal of Sanctuary, Sanctum of Eternity, and the various Ninjas will work in a pinch for bouncing Etrata after attacking, but be sure to have other spells in hand that can protect her on an opponent's turn should you replay her.

Be particularly wary of any board wipes, because only bounce, blink, and phasing effects can save her from those, while flicker effects cannot.

This deck has particularly weak defense to attacking creatures. Bontu's Last Reckoning is a nice panic button. If the board gets flooded with tokens, Echoing Truth can help deal with at least some of them for a turn. Illness in the Ranks and Virulent Plague can almost completely negate any go-wide tokens deck.

Against decks that don't play non-token creatures besides their commander, or stop playing them due to the threat Etrata represents, Etrata's only viable win conditions are: A) exiling artifacts animated via March of the Machines or B) commander damage. Commander damage generally takes 7 hits per player.

Glaring Spotlight can help deal with difficult to target creatures, like Narset, Enlightened Master.

Sometimes Etrata can keep a planeswalker under control. That said, if you play in a planeswalker-heavy meta, be sure to slot in The Elderspell.

Ashiok, Dream Render is largely intended as grave and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim hate.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 1 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	City's Blessing, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Based on	Dimir Assassin Flicker v2 Sarowa EDH