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 44 decks in the 7 days up to Nov. 7, 2026, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +4 Delver of Secrets (4 vs 0.1)
- +4 Mental Note (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Tolarian Terror (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Ponder (4 vs 0.4)
- +3 Ice Tunnel (4 vs 1.1)
- +3 Brainstorm (4 vs 1.3)
- +2 Cut Down (4 vs 1.9)
- +2 Island (11 vs 9.3)
Fewer than usual
- -4 Snuff Out (0 vs 3.7)
- -3 Preordain (0 vs 2.7)
- -3 Plunder the Trollshaws (0 vs 2.7)
- -2 Contaminated Aquifer (1 vs 3.3)
- -2 Campfire (0 vs 1.5)
- -1 Thorn of the Black Rose (1 vs 2.2)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +3 Soul-Guide Lantern (3 vs 0.1)
Fewer than usual
- -1 Vandalblast (0 vs 1.1)
This is the most unusual list of the archetype in this period: 26 cards away from the average.