(This is kind of a metagame discussion but also has some deck creation aspect to it, so I my apologies if a mod thinks it belongs in a different subforum.)
So one of the crazy things about the Oko/food dominance is that people are maindecking noxious grasp and aether gust. Sultai and Simic food just dominated at the mythic championship. So I wonder if anyone tested, or has considered, a straight DIMIR deck that could take advantage of all these hosers and more?
Not just gust and grasp (which it could run all 8 of main, and could have performed well against literally every deck in the top 8) but also: Blightbeetle. No seriously! It turns off the creature part of hydroid krasis, making it just a really bad sphinx's revelation, it turns off the creature generation part of Nissa, and it stops wicked wolf from growing. And it can attack through every single simic/sultai food creature to get in chip damage at planeswalkers, or chump block a wolf forever! I'm not saying this would be a main deck card, but I could see it being brought in from the sideboard for even more hate - doesn't it seem good enough against the food decks?
And you can have Mystical Dispute in the board too.
Plus, your opponents' grasps and gusts would be dead cards. Now, veil of summer is obviously a problem, but that's just four cards out of their sideboard.
I don't know what else would go in a shell that starts with 4 gusts and 4 grasps main and doesn't run any green. You could go more controlling, with Narset and more counters/removal, or midrangy/tempo with brazen borrower and murderous rider. You could even run a ramp into mass manipulation package with Lotus Field and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner and even Tale's End if you want to get cute - it also counters Oko, Nissa, or a Krasis draw trigger quite nicely.
There are a lot of possibilities here, but mainly I'm just wondering if anyone has thought about or tested with a Dimir deck that just went all in on out-meta'ing the metagame by playing all 8 premiere anti-green cards and also getting the benefit of dodging opposing hate. It seems like it could have worked out well at this mythic championship.
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So one of the crazy things about the Oko/food dominance is that people are maindecking noxious grasp and aether gust. Sultai and Simic food just dominated at the mythic championship. So I wonder if anyone tested, or has considered, a straight DIMIR deck that could take advantage of all these hosers and more?
Not just gust and grasp (which it could run all 8 of main, and could have performed well against literally every deck in the top 8) but also: Blightbeetle. No seriously! It turns off the creature part of hydroid krasis, making it just a really bad sphinx's revelation, it turns off the creature generation part of Nissa, and it stops wicked wolf from growing. And it can attack through every single simic/sultai food creature to get in chip damage at planeswalkers, or chump block a wolf forever! I'm not saying this would be a main deck card, but I could see it being brought in from the sideboard for even more hate - doesn't it seem good enough against the food decks?
And you can have Mystical Dispute in the board too.
Plus, your opponents' grasps and gusts would be dead cards. Now, veil of summer is obviously a problem, but that's just four cards out of their sideboard.
I don't know what else would go in a shell that starts with 4 gusts and 4 grasps main and doesn't run any green. You could go more controlling, with Narset and more counters/removal, or midrangy/tempo with brazen borrower and murderous rider. You could even run a ramp into mass manipulation package with Lotus Field and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner and even Tale's End if you want to get cute - it also counters Oko, Nissa, or a Krasis draw trigger quite nicely.
There are a lot of possibilities here, but mainly I'm just wondering if anyone has thought about or tested with a Dimir deck that just went all in on out-meta'ing the metagame by playing all 8 premiere anti-green cards and also getting the benefit of dodging opposing hate. It seems like it could have worked out well at this mythic championship.