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: PajamicusFleck
Event: Dumpster Cat Weekly - 1st
Date: 2026-07-27
Points (10): Mox Jet (3), Mox Sapphire (3), Psychic Frog (1), Reanimate (1), Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (1), True-Name Nemesis (1)
Creatures (30)
- 1Deathrite Shaman
- 1Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
- 1Baleful Strix
- 1Dauthi Voidwalker
- 1Emperor of Bones
- 1Faerie Mastermind
- 1Ledger Shredder
- 1Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 1Orcish Bowmasters
- 1Psychic Frog
- 1Snapcaster Mage
- 1Abhorrent Oculus
- 1Barrowgoyf
- 1Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft //
- 1Grave Researcher // Reanimate //
- 1Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
- 1Harbinger of the Seas
- 1Hullbreacher
- 1Opposition Agent
- 1Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1True-Name Nemesis
- 1Vendilion Clique
- 1Enduring Curiosity
- 1Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1Subtlety
- 1Vren, the Relentless
- 1Fallen Shinobi
- 1Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1Murktide Regent
Sorceries (11)
- 1Duress
- 1Gitaxian Probe
- 1Ponder
- 1Preordain
- 1Reanimate
- 1Serum Visions
- 1Thoughtseize
- 1Unearth
- 1Hymn to Tourach
- 1Stock Up
- 1Lórien Revealed
Instants (20)
- 1Brainstorm
- 1Cling to Dust
- 1Consider
- 1Cut Down
- 1Fatal Push
- 1Mental Misstep
- 1Opt
- 1Spell Pierce
- 1Stifle
- 1Thought Scour
- 1Counterspell
- 1Daze
- 1Drown in the Loch
- 1Mana Leak
- 1Remand
- 1Dismember
- 1Force of Negation
- 1Cryptic Command
- 1Snuff Out
- 1Force of Will
Artifacts (3)
- 1Mox Jet
- 1Mox Sapphire
- 1Shadowspear
Enchantments (2)
- 1Dress Down
- 1Back to Basics
Lands (34)
- 1Bloodstained Mire
- 1Creeping Tar Pit
- 1Flooded Strand
- 11Island
- 1Marsh Flats
- 1Misty Rainforest
- 1Otawara, Soaring City
- 1Polluted Delta
- 1Prismatic Vista
- 1Scalding Tarn
- 7Swamp
- 1Tropical Island
- 1Undercity Sewers
- 1Underground Mortuary
- 1Underground Sea
- 1Verdant Catacombs
- 1Wasteland
- 1Watery Grave
