Let's Gobble Up our Opponents' Hopes and Dreams with Dinrova Horror Discard in Pioneer! (League)

In the many hours I spent playing the various Duels of the Planeswalkers games on my X Box, my number one favorite creature I got to use has to be Dinvova Horror. This awful 6 mana 4/4 bounces a permanent and makes our opponent discard on the spot! Notice that if our opponent has zero cards in hand, this effect translates to "destroy target permanent". Sweet! The goal of this deck is to get our opponent empty handed and then lay on the Dinrova effects, bouncing any permanents that got through our Thoughtseizes and Go Blanks, and sending them straight to the graveyard! Compelling Deterrence is a really great one of these! If we have a zombie on the battlefield and our opponenet has no cards in hand, it becomes 2 mana, instant speed, destroy target non land permanent, which is... the best removal spell in M:tG? We'll drag along some Shambling Ghasts and Lazotep Reavers to make sure we've got some decrepit bodies to turn on the Deterrence. Of course, Waste Not helps with this as well! And since we're a heavy discard deck, it's a powerful value engine for us! Ashiok, Nightmare Muse and the eponymous Horror are our bombs, and will shut the door on our opponents with the power of devour! And, since we're Dimir, might as well bring along all some powerful Pioneer legal interaction, including Fatal Push and Liliana of the Veil, who is right at home here! But can we really have our way with our opponents, get them to zero cards in hand consistently and Dinrova up all their remnants? Much easier said than done in a hyper charged Pioneer format! But we're sure gonna try, and the deck is surely some good, janky fun!

Sorry, the third match in this league got a bit messed up in both the recording and the vod. Not sure how, but the end of it is just fine and is included. Hopefully it won't happen again.


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Decklist

1 Dinrova Horror
4 Swamp
3 Island
2 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
3 Shambling Ghast
3 Waste Not
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Discovery/Dispersal
4 Fatal Push
4 Compelling Deterrence
3 Lazotep Reaver
4 Thoughtseize
1 Castle Locthwain
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
4 Clearwater Pathway/Murkwater Pathway
3 Shipwreck Marsh
3 Field of Ruin
3 Go Blank
2 Watery Grave
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Spellscorn Coven
2 Restless Reef
1 Skull Raid
1 Memory Deluge
1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

2 Duress
1 Liliana of the Veil
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
3 Witch's Vengeance
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Pithing Needle
2 Torpor Orb
2 Gifted Aetherborn

Timestamps

0:00 Intro and Deck Tech
11:02 Match 1 vs. Mono G Devotion
39:47 Match 2 vs. Izzet Phoenix
58:56 Match 3 vs. Mono G Devotion
1:10:45 Match 4 vs. Amalia Combo
1:33:27 Match 5 vs. Rakdos Midrange
1:41:14 Final Thoughts