MTG Salvation

Here is the dimir version of this deck ive been working on and tweaking for a while. Its in its infancy but it is out of the womb. Similar versions of this have play tested very well against jeskai tempo and aggro decks.



looking for feedback, ideas, playtest this please =), i think youll all find your opponents frustration a source of enjoyment

My primary concern would be Courser of Kruphix. I assume that you'd prefer to save Downfall for Planeswalkers. In that case, an uncountered Courser can reasonably draw 2 or more lands and deal 4+ damage.

So far in testing he has been able to do some damage to me sure, generally an early ashiok will stop a courser, prognostic sphinx will stop him a few turns later, or a late silence the believers, in addition ive often opted as a control player to just let them have a courser as long as i get to know what cards i need to save counter spells for or kill spells.

I think the only *easy* solution to courser in these colors is Feast of Dreams or some 3+ toughness creature like omenspeaker. in control matchups courser can often be a double edged sword as opponents learn every card you draw. i would play clever impersonator and just copy theirs, but sometimes i find the matchup more difficult when they know my draws. depending on the meta i may add feast of dreams to the sideboard as an option.



Your right though, i dont want to spend a hero's downfall on a courser. and its a creature that presents a number of problems surely.

Here is an updated version that playtested quite well today

What is the purpose of Opulent Palace here? Seems better as radiant fountain or additional basics considering there are no green cards. In addition, 24 lands seems low for control deck. Not sure what to cut but I would up the land to 26 and drop Palace altogether.

At the moment this is just what i was play testing, I may consider adding some radiant fountains. Mainly the reason i was playing them was just for more dual colored lands. some of the turns can be quite constraining on mana requiring me to play a bile blight and a dissolve on the same turn, or bile blight and hero's downfall. nearly every spell in the deck requires double mana of the same color lol. despite only being two colors, i found with only 8 dual colored lands i was running into mana troubles. that was also before i upped polluted delta to four though, so it may see some re-working. good suggestion thanks =)

Why aren't you playing Thoughtseize Or Murderous Cut?

I cut murderous cut becomes it competes too much with dig through time. I am not playing thoughtseize because i have 11 counterspells for non creature non planeswalker spells. and 2 dmg is relevant