The Best Laid Plans

Commander / EDH Competitive Control UB (Dimir)

Calyptic

Advantage And Utility (13)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mind Spring
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat

Goodstuff (9)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
• 1x Tromokratis
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Removal (8)

• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Murder
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victim of Night

Manabase (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Detection Tower
• 14x Island
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 13x Swamp

Countercards (10)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Undermine

Hindrances (7)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Larceny
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Tainted Remedy

Commander (1)

Sappers (12)

• 1x Bouncing Beebles
• 1x Deathcult Rogue
• 1x Ghastlord of Fugue
• 1x Harbor Bandit
• 1x Inkfathom Infiltrator
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Latch Seeker
• 1x Neurok Invisimancer
• 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator
• 1x Slippery Scoundrel
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Uninvited Geist  ^Flip

Unblockable Tools (3)

• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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UPDATE: The budget for this deck has increased to about $300, so I'm looking for better cards to replace the current decklist to make this a more competitive deck!

Welcome to my Dimir Control build with Lazav (The OG, not the Surveiler) at the helm.

The deck idea is pretty simple, you control the board with targeted Removal and Counterspells, to take out anything you find offensive to exist, sap away at enemy lifepools with unblockable thumb-tacks (and draw several cards off it, thus fueling the control engine moreso), and whip out one of your Goodstuffs for a Win Condition via Combat Damage, although my favorite is to remove an Enemy stomper and copy them via Lazav, thus using a copy of their own creature to kill them via Commander Damage. Not to mention Lazav's built-in Hexproof will keep him protected from targeted control, whilst your counterspells can have one in reserve for any potential board wipes.

This being my first real Control deck in the Dimir Colors, I could use some suggestions if you think it could be better with certain cards, though I'd really appreciate suggestions on what to take out, thus to not hurt the synergy of the deck.

Top Ranked	Achieved #4 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	City's Blessing
Folders	Maybe Decks, Commander, Commander Copy, Cool EDH, Deck Ideas, possible edh deck, potential deck ideas, Potential Commander, Wack, Cool Decks