Veiled Secrecy (Dimir Guild Kit)

Casual Budget Casual Surveil Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir) Vorthos

JediCat

Creature (21)

• 2x Baleful Strix
• 2x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Deathcult Rogue
• 1x Dimir Informant
• 1x Dimir Spybug
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Murmuring Phantasm
• 1x Nightveil Predator
• 1x Nightveil Sprite
• 1x Szadek, Lord of Secrets
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 2x Thoughtbound Phantasm
• 1x Watcher in the Mist

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 2x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Ribbons of Night
• 1x Selective Snare
• 1x Thought Erasure

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Soul Ransom

Artifact (2)

• 2x Dimir Signet

Land (24)

• 2x Dimir Aqueduct
• 4x Dimir Guildgate
• 9x Island
• 9x Swamp

Instant (5)

• 1x Agony Warp
• 1x Far / Away
• 2x Price of Fame
• 1x Siphon Insight

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{UB} “Who are the agents of the Dimir? No one and everyone.”

Other decks from the series:

{WU} Supreme Law (Azorius Guild Kit)

{UB} Veiled Secrecy (Dimir Guild Kit) — you are here

{BR} Gleeful Slaughter (Rakdos Guild Kit)

{RG} Ruinous Rampage (Gruul Guild Kit)

{GW} Harmonious Unity (Selesnya Guild Kit)

{WB} Eternal Debt (Orzhov Guild Kit)

{BG} Neverending Cycle (Golgari Guild Kit)

{GU} Unbound Evolution (Simic Guild Kit)

{UR} Explosive Science (Izzet Guild Kit)

{RW} Fiery Justice (Boros Guild Kit)

I'll be honest, building this deck was a royal pain in the ass. Surveil is awesome, don't get me wrong, but when the mechanical identity of the Dimir up to GRN was milling YOUR OPPONENT, and then suddenly the strategy takes a drastic 180-turn and now you love putting cards into your OWN graveyard. This divide shoots us in the leg at the very early stage of choosing our mythic out of available guild leaders: Lazav, Dimir Mastermind has an awesome design, but we don't really mill out opponent that much (with a few self-sufficient exceptions). Lazav, the Multifarious is kinda weak in a deck NOT focused on him, because he plays like a more mana-intensive, your graveyard-only Dimir Doppelganger in most cases.

So I'm making an exception and allowing a small home errata: Lazav, Dimir Mastermind now triggers on a card getting put into any graveyard, not just your opponent's. This way, he can benefit both from self-sufficient millers like Consuming Aberration and Szadek, Lord of Secrets, removal spells and the entire surveil package alike. After all, it makes zero sense to me that he won't transform into the shape of an allied creature if the situation calls for it.

Alternate art: Syphon Insight is a perfect candidate to have something like Never Happened. Agony Warp could also use some Dimir reflavoring.

As always, I am more than happy to provide explanations for any card included (or excluded).

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 8 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.50