Dimir Selfmill by Dragonslayer

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Dimir deck leverages The Ancient One as an early defensive wall and looting engine while aiming for compact empty-library combo victories. Its primary route pairs Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation, supported by a dense tutor suite including Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Imperial Seal. If the primary line is contested, the deck seamlessly pivots to redundant win conditions such as Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Laboratory Maniac, or Doomsday piles. The secondary game plan integrates graveyard mill synergies, utilizing Cut Your Losses, Traumatize, and Syr Konrad, the Grim to grind opponent life totals and fuel powerful reanimation spells like Reanimate and Victimize. Free interaction spells including Fierce Guardianship and Deadly Rollick protect critical combo turns while controlling commander presence on board. The result is a high-power combo-control shell capable of sudden, decisive finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer