Dimir Control 
Dimir Control Pauper decklist played by Luke Russell at 🧙🏿♀️🍰 POVO PAUPER LEAGUE IN JOHANNESBURG 🍰🧙🏿♀️ 5/5 (7 Nov 2026).
- Player
- Luke Russell
- Finish
- #5 of 26, 3-1
- Archetype
- Dimir Control
- Format
- Pauper
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- TopDeck.gg
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Main deck (60)
Creatures (15)
Instants (19)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (60)
Creatures (15)
- 4 Baleful Strix
- 4 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
- 2 Murmuring Mystic
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
- 4 Tolarian Terror
Instants (19)
- 4 Brainstorm
- 3 Cast Down
- 4 Counterspell
- 4 Cut Down
- 4 Mental Note
Sorceries (8)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Contaminated Aquifer
- 4 Ice Tunnel
- 11 Island
- 1 Swamp
Sideboard (15)
Compared with the average Dimir Control list
Average of 189 decks in the 30 days up to Nov. 7, 2026, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +4 Delver of Secrets (4 vs 0.0)
- +4 Mental Note (4 vs 0.1)
- +4 Tolarian Terror (4 vs 0.1)
- +4 Ponder (4 vs 0.5)
- +3 Ice Tunnel (4 vs 1.0)
- +3 Brainstorm (4 vs 1.1)
- +2 Cut Down (4 vs 2.1)
- +2 Island (11 vs 9.2)
Fewer than usual
- -4 Snuff Out (0 vs 3.8)
- -3 Plunder the Trollshaws (0 vs 3.0)
- -3 Preordain (0 vs 2.8)
- -2 Contaminated Aquifer (1 vs 3.5)
- -2 Campfire (0 vs 1.8)
- -1 Spell Pierce (0 vs 1.4)
- -1 Thorn of the Black Rose (1 vs 2.3)
- -1 Suffocating Fumes (0 vs 1.0)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +3 Soul-Guide Lantern (3 vs 0.0)
Fewer than usual
- -1 Vandalblast (0 vs 1.2)
- -1 Nihil Spellbomb (0 vs 1.1)
Most unusual list in this period: Atog in Central Liga Gaucha de Pauper 2026 - Etapa 9 (27 cards away from the average)