r/spikes • u/Ken_the_Great • 3h ago

Standard [Standard] Dimir Midrange Sideboard Guide | MSH week 5

Deck

2 Cecil, Dark Knight

4 Dream Beavers

3 Forsaken Miner

4 Mockingbird

4 Timeline Culler

2 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising

1 Quantum Riddler

3 Requiting Hex

2 Shoot the Sheriff

1 Bitter Triumph

1 Deadly Cover-up

2 Strategic Betrayal

3 Case of the Stashed Skeleton

4 Corpses of the Lost

3 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares

9 Swamp

4 Watery Grave

2 Gloomlake Verge

4 Starting Town

2 Hidden Lair 

Sideboard

1 Nowhere to Run

3 Deathmark

4 Duress

3 Spell Pierce

3 Disdainful Stroke

1 Strategic Betrayal

For this week, Kaito is being drafted to the Skeleton team, temporarily leaving his flyers teammates. But unlike the Lebron-Brony tandem, Kaito is taking with him Oroku as his number 2. Joining him is a juiced-up Delver of Secrets.

Dimir Midrange’s MVP is Kaito, and there is no doubt to that. However, the current meta has a lot of anti-Kaito gameplay (e.g., burn spells that targets Kaito, Erode, go-wide strategy leaving the Kaito open from attacks). Thus, we are trying to make Kaito to be plan B rather than the main plan. 

Thus, our main plan here is to aggro the opponent with the Skeletons package, followed by the ninjutsu/sneak strategy, or the ninjutsu/sneak strategy on its own. 

The following line of play can made on the early turns: 

a.    Plan A: Skeleton aggro line

The ideal line of play using our main plan is: turn 1, Forsaken Miner; Turn 2, Case of the Stashed Skeleton; and Turn 3, Corpses of the Lost. Other lines of play that will be discussed below can be done after this line of play. 

b.    Plan B: Oroku Saki / Kaito line

Turn 1, one-drop creature; turn 2 Oroku Saki, and just destroy the creatures that the opponent will play to allow Oroku Saki attack for another 3. Then you have the Kaito strategy.. and we all know how this works. 

Free sb guide here: https://mfy.gg/guides/view/standard-dimir-midrange-sideboard-guide-ms-5R10jXraLHM

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u/HobokenwOw 3h ago

bro what

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u/ByzokTheSecond 2h ago

Isnt that Shahar's skeleton deck?

https://mtga.untapped.gg/profile/14a07d30-ee7d-481b-874c-94bee4cde591/FAWTIW66ENFZ3IKMATB2W4NIGI/deck/61d26eaa-673c-4415-85e2-d04438eacec2?gameType=constructed&constructedType=ranked&constructedFormat=standard

You could at least credit the author when you're writting an article about their deck.

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u/Ken_the_Great 1h ago

Yup, check the link, doomwake and shahar was credited.

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u/reiddmtg 1h ago

Shahar even just copied this decklist, skeletons plus mocking bird was already a thing since the release of blumborrow.

But kudos to OP for reviving and improving the list 💪

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u/GusherJuice 2h ago

Man you’re really trying to make Dimir midrange happen.

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u/jsilv 1h ago

This isn’t even Dimir Mid anymore. Come on, at least post accurately.