Dimir Midrange
Also known as: UB Midrange
Dimir Midrange combines the powerful disruption suite of blue and black with powerhouse threats and a variety of card advantage tools to close out the game. Between countermagic, bounce spells, spot removal, board wipes, and discard, Dimir offers the tools to interact effectively with any strategy. Powerful prison pieces like Opposition Agent, Orcish Bowmasters, and Harbinger of the Seas can invalidate swathes of the opponent’s cards. Once the opponent’s plans have been disrupted, the deck can close out the game with powerful finishers like Abhorrent Oculus, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Barrowgoyf.
The deck has access to a variety of useful pointed cards, allowing the spread to be customized to suit the expected metagame. After the two moxen, options include Psychic Frog, Treasure Cruise, Dig Through Time, Mana Drain, True-Name Nemesis, Reanimate, and Strip Mine, with Psychic Frog seeing the most play. True-Name Nemesis and Reanimate are often chosen to improve fair matchups, while Dig Through Time and Mana Drain are preferable when tapping out is undesirable.
Dimir Midrange has a similar place in the metagame as Dimir Tempo, being strong against combo decks and weak to artifacts and white-based initiative strategies. Midrange trades the early pressure of Tempo for slower but individually stronger threats, making the deck weaker against combo but more resilient against control and midrange, creating a more even matchup spread than Dimir Tempo.
— written by Ian Gitax
Example Decklist
Dimir Midrange
By: Eleanor D.
Event: Duel des Montagnards - 1st
Date: 2026-06-13
Points (10): Mox Jet (3), Mox Sapphire (3), Psychic Frog (1), Reanimate (1), Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (1), Treasure Cruise (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
- 1Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
Creatures (32)
- 1Mockingbird
- 1Spectral Sailor
- 1Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
- 1Baleful Strix
- 1Dauthi Voidwalker
- 1Faerie Mastermind
- 1Katara, Waterbending Master
- 1Moon-Circuit Hacker
- 1Orcish Bowmasters
- 1Plumecreed Escort
- 1Psychic Frog
- 1Snapcaster Mage
- 1Spellstutter Sprite
- 1Thieving Skydiver
- 1Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
- 1Zephyr Sentinel
- 1Abhorrent Oculus
- 1Barrowgoyf
- 1Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
- 1Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft //
- 1Harbinger of the Seas
- 1Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
- 1Opposition Agent
- 1Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1Vendilion Clique
- 1Weeping Angel
- 1Grief
- 1Ingenious Infiltrator
- 1Ninja of the Deep Hours
- 1Subtlety
- 1Fallen Shinobi
- 1Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (10)
- 1Gitaxian Probe
- 1Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1Ponder
- 1Preordain
- 1Reanimate
- 1Thoughtseize
- 1Unearth
- 1Hymn to Tourach
- 1Lórien Revealed
- 1Treasure Cruise
Instants (20)
- 1Brainstorm
- 1Consider
- 1Fatal Push
- 1Mental Misstep
- 1Spell Pierce
- 1Spell Snare
- 1Stifle
- 1Bitter Triumph
- 1Counterspell
- 1Daze
- 1Drown in the Loch
- 1Lose Focus
- 1Memory Lapse
- 1Remand
- 1Flare of Denial
- 1Force of Negation
- 1Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
- 1Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
- 1Snuff Out
- 1Force of Will
Artifacts (5)
- 1Chrome Mox
- 1Mox Jet
- 1Mox Sapphire
- 1Aether Vial
- 1Tsabo's Web
Enchantments (2)
- 1Dress Down
- 1Fire Nation Occupation
Lands (30)
- 1Bloodstained Mire
- 1Darkslick Shores
- 1Flooded Strand
- 1Gloomlake Verge
- 8Island
- 1Marsh Flats
- 1Misty Rainforest
- 1Otawara, Soaring City
- 1Polluted Delta
- 1Prismatic Vista
- 1Scalding Tarn
- 6Swamp
- 1Undercity Sewers
- 1Underground River
- 1Underground Sea
- 1Verdant Catacombs
- 1Wasteland
- 1Watery Grave
