Graveyard Dinner Party

by Anagna on 09 July 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)


Instants (3)

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Deck Description

Originally I was going to buy a 180 card White bundle from MTGmint to start myself off in Magic with the idea of running Angels. Unfortunately every 180 card colour bundle except White was in stock, so I eventually settled for Blue.
I've had this deck for two years and 1 1/2 of those years was mono-blue mill while hiding behind walls and praying I survived until the end of the game.

Since Gatecrash, I've broken out of the mono-blue paradigm and realized that the best defense is a good offense. So like a pop-culture cliché, I gave myself to the embrace of Black.

And this is the end result; A deck that mills in order to further its own ends. Whether it means ramping up the P/T of my own creatures or taking what I've milled for my own use.

How to Play

Main win condition = Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank.

Everything in the deck either inflicts damage or mill. Either one is exactly what you need to proc the win condition combo.
Don't draw either cards? No issues, the deck is built to hold its own and even win a lengthy game should you get bad luck or win condition cards removed somehow.

This deck draws INSANE agro from other players and expect to die two minutes
after multiplayer FFA games start.
How do you deal with agro? Easy. Bluff like there's no tomorrow!
When your opponent is considering their options, make them nervous. Pay attention to one particular card in your hand; make them think it is the spell that will undo all their hard work.
This is a U/B deck, deception is what you do.

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Kill
  • Blue
  • Black
  • Dimir
  • Modern
  • Extended
  • Legacy
  • Vintage
  • Standard
  • Commander
  • EDH
  • Ravnica
  • Innistrad
  • M12
  • M13
  • M14
  • dark
  • Ascension
  • Avacyn
  • restored
  • Return
  • Gatecrash
  • Dragon
  • Dragon
  • dragon's
  • maze
  • Masters
  • hedron
  • Crab
  • Jace's
  • phantasm
  • Wight
  • precinct
  • six
  • Duskmantle
  • Guildmage
  • Vampire
  • Nighthawk
  • soul
  • ransom
  • Charm
  • psychic
  • strike
  • riddle
  • keeper
  • riddlekeeper
  • specter
  • phyrexia
  • New
  • Phyrexian
  • Obliterator
  • Havengul
  • Lich
  • consuming
  • aberration
  • mindcrank
  • Artifact
  • Memory
  • erosion
  • Enchantment
  • Sorcery
  • Creature-Based
  • Instant
  • Planeswalker
  • Jace
  • adept
  • Mind
  • funeral
  • Graveyard
  • drowned
  • Catacomb
  • Swamp
  • Island
  • pilfered
  • plans
  • Mirko
  • Vosk
  • drinker
  • Curse
  • bloody
  • tome
  • queen
  • Fae
  • oona
  • belltower
  • Sphinx
  • nightveil
  • Color
  • colour
  • Colorless
  • Colourless
  • Mana
  • Win
  • Infinite
  • Loop
  • Combo
  • dire
  • undercurrents
  • Discard
  • Draw
  • Card
  • Sideboard
  • mainboard
  • Core
  • set
  • m10
  • Alara
  • shards
  • Dinner
  • party
  • multi-colour
  • Multicolor
  • Multicolor
  • Multicolour
  • Dual
  • Hybrid
  • Rogue
  • Deck
  • build

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Graveyard Dinner Party

If you dropped the Riddlekeepers and replace them with, say, Nighthawks/Soul Ransoms from the sideboard, the deck would be suitable for Modern aswell.

Looks rather fun in any case!

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Posted 09 July 2013 at 06:35

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Thank you for the compliment, sir. I'm pretty much a casual player who plays within a group of friends. But yeah, if I ever play in a tournament or anything, I'll be certain to make the necessary adjustments.

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Posted 09 July 2013 at 09:54

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OMG! I LOLd so hard at your deck description and how to play. your hilarious. Its a really good deck, the only three good cards that i can think of that would go with this are Keening Stone, Trepanation Blade, and Decimator Web. and 2 cards that COULD help are Crypt Incursion and Haunting Echoes. with Haunting Echoes about halfway through their deck you can use it, and if they have a repetitive deck it could leave them with pure land :D then they are defenseless to your torturing deck destruction XD
hope i helped...

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Posted 09 July 2013 at 16:38

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Thank you!

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Posted 10 July 2013 at 04:40

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did any of it even help? lol

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Posted 10 July 2013 at 04:50

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I've taken a look at the suggested cards, I'm loving Haunting Echoes but I'm not too sure on the mass exile part. Decimator Web looks mean too. Crypt Incursion is definitely a card I can use to survive but it would function better in a Golgari deck. Keening Stone is considered a must-have in mill decks, but it's quite expensive.

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Posted 10 July 2013 at 06:04

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actually I ordered my Keening Stone on Amazon for what i think was under a dollar or maybe a little more, but $1.40 absolute max. idk what its worth there now though.

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Posted 10 July 2013 at 06:24

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Posted 09 July 2013 at 19:26

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I'm sure u already thought of traumatize but archive trap is good as well. Haunting echoes is better but suffer the past is almost the same. Maybe u could drop riddle keeper for oculus to make it modern, blocker and draw.

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Posted 30 July 2013 at 05:45

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Cut down on the tags especially the ones that are blatantly wrong like Commander/EDH and the Standard/Modern/Extended formats

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Posted 31 July 2013 at 16:36

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dont put random tags that are irrelevant its impolite to people who are searching for specific decks

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Posted 02 August 2013 at 21:46

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Liked the tags!

Click my name to take a peek at a modern mill-deck that has recently been winning top 2-4...
(It's the one by azazel314)

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Posted 12 August 2013 at 12:17

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Since there were two very different designs winning, I think the cards they shared in common should be a hint towards what actually works for mill...

Here's what the two winning designs got in common:
4 hedron crabs
4 archive trap
4 visions of beyond
4 glimpse the unthinkable
3 cards giving slight card advantage (either snapcaster mage or augur of bolas)
2 cards discarding important stuff (either thoughtseize or surgical extraction)

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Posted 13 August 2013 at 12:46

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So far you have been the "old tag"-recordbreaker.

Sorry about the disturbance.

I'm trying to establish a new trend in deckbuilding, and I'm inviting everyone I've come across to participate.

I hereby invite you to participate in a brand new trend in deckdesigning that might change the future of how to design decks.

Shortly told, there are two ways that new decktypes are made, the first is by designing something new, the second is by taking the best parts of two older decks, mix it together and you got a new decktype!!!

What I suggest is a turbo-version of mixing two different decktypes into a new one.

You simply split up existing designs into deckhalves (Called halfdecks) that are designed so that they keep as much of the origanal themes of a deck intact, and so that the half can be thrown together with almost any other halfdeck deigned in the future.

Splitting a deck up in two times 30 cards is not so easy as it sounds, so initially this trend will start out slowly, and if enough people adapt the idea it will probably explode into radical new decktypes made from decks designed with halfdecking in mind.

To get a better understanding of the concept you might need to take a look at the first 3 deckhalves I've made as examples. (Bear in mind that they were designed very roughly from memory)

I will improve these designs and add other deckhalves as fast as possible to start up the trend.

YOU, and everyone else that recieve this "spam" are welcome to start up your own version of this project, as it is intended to become everyones, and only by letting several minds work on it independently will it take on a better shape and spread out as a new deckbuilding tool.

Contact me at any time, with any questions you may have.

I only have one wish on how this new trend can be spread. If everyone involved tag their decks as halfdecks then the future halfdeck community may simply write halfdeck in the decksearching function to find what they are looking for!

The first half of a "death and taxes"-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-001/

The second half of a "death and taxes"-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-002/

The red half of a U/R delver-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-003/

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Posted 18 November 2013 at 12:56

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