Alejandro – Thanks for sharing! Solid info, and I’m glad you liked the article.

HistorianJoe – Good points. I definitely like the analogy

About the TE deck:

In the first turns, one forest usually is enough… For Satyr, Commune or Leechs. You almost never play Brownscale, And on the other hand, you will need a lot of black always, for TE ability, or Crypt Rats; also for Barren Moor, etc. Maximizing the option to play TE on the first turn is also a reason. And some turns after, you won’t need more than GG or GGG almost ever.

Grave Scrabbler, Wild Mongrel… They fit in a different deck, next to Arrogant Wurm and Basking Rotwalla. If you test the deck, you will understand (the main reason is that there are not enough discard abilities… If you add some, the deck will change too much).

I think the deck doesn’t play mainly aggro, but sometimes, you can aggro with Leech or Werebears + dredging.

The main plan is to find TE ASAP. So if you dont start with a copy of it, then you have Commune or cyclying cards for looking for it. When you find it, then you start moving cards to the graveyard with Satyrs and Communes, if you haven’t started already. So usually a dredger will have appeared, and then each turn u will dredge, and will start playing as many “2 mana 4/4s” as you can (Leeches and Werebears), while you can kill the 3 thoughness or less creatures at the same time, with the Rats. Tilling Treefolks and Tusker are essential here for continuing playing lands, so you can keep dredging turn after turn… And then you “change” the dredge card with any creature you want in the graveyard, depending on what you need. I still didn’t try the Nightstalkers… But probably they solve the problems we had against decks like Hexproof and Tron.

A very very difficult deck to play; you have too many options each turn, and you will need to test a lot a lot and have hundreds of errors before start controlling it “decently”… But instead of hating this, I love this, because you have a very complex deck in a not-so-complex format… And I can tell you that at some point I started getting bored of Pauper, and when I found this deck, this changed totally for me :).

By the way, a very good article with very good content; and you explained the dimir deck in a way that it encouraged me to play it, hehe. Keep with the great articles!!