Dimir Unblocked (copy) by jaxson

Format: Commander

Commander: Vela the Night-Clad

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is a casual Dimir combat deck commanded by Vela the Night-Clad. The game plan focuses on establishing early evasive board presence using low-mana unblockable creatures such as Slither Blade and Mist-Cloaked Herald, backed by high-toughness defensive blockers. The deck accelerates mana using a dense package of artifacts to cast Vela the Night-Clad, granting intimidate to all creatures and draining opponents whenever creatures leave the battlefield. While the deck boasts redundant evasive threats and independent evasion enablers like Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive, its damage output scales slowly. It lacks burst overruns, compact combo finishes, or persistent card draw engines. Interaction consists of classic countermagic and single-target removal alongside high-impact reset spells like Hex, Aether Gale, and Sway of the Stars. The deck plays at its best in lower-powered multiplayer pods where steady chip damage and unblockable attackers can grind down life totals over extended turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Countermand
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Deathcap Marionette
  • 1 Deathcult Rogue
  • 1 Deepchannel Mentor
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demon's Horn
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Cluestone
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eyes of the Beholder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Wall
  • 1 Gray Harbor Merfolk
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Hired Poisoner
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kin-Tree Nurturer
  • 1 Kraken's Eye
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Mana Geode
  • 1 Manalith
  • 1 Mask of Riddles
  • 1 Mirrodin Avenged
  • 1 Mirrorform
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Monastery Flock
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Necrogen Communion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neurok Spy
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phantom Warrior
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Reaper's Talisman
  • 1 Remorseless Punishment
  • 1 River Sneak
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Revival
  • 1 Squirming Mass
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sway of the Stars
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Unhallowed Pact
  • 1 Urborg Uprising
  • 1 Vela the Night-Clad
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Junk