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Deck Challenge: Mill yourself for the win

When I first started playing the uncommon/common Eldrazi's, I experimented with self mill (hedron crab) + patriarch's bidding for the win. The idea, actually, was to build a deck shell, that would allow for the introduction of ANY 10 creature cards of the same type into the deck and it would perform the same way.

Patriarch's Bidding is a five cost, so ideally, you need to be able to mill yourself into oblivion to be able to cast the bidding on turn five to overwhelm your opponent with [really big or really powerful] creatures all at once.

No matter what I did it was always kind of awkward and sometimes I would mill myself past my key cards. What I wanted to see, is if anyone else had thought of this combo or any other deck that would intentially mill yourself for the win.


These cards were the cornerstone of my deck:
Hedron Crab
Patriarch's Bidding
Reclaim
Demonic Tutor

Add a few of the panorama lands and there you go.
Posted 11 October 2010 at 16:01

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The only self-mill decks I've seen used often carried a lot of things with the "Unearth" ability. Pay some mana and slap them into play as if they were Ball-Lightnings. The only difference is some don't get trample and w/e.
I tend to run a black leyline if at all possible against people that use these techniques however. LoL
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Posted 11 October 2010 at 16:48

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Here's my take. Patriarch's Bidding is an excellent card to get a bunch of Allies into play and this deck could probably be improved to do that even better, but here's what I've got so far:
http://mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=103725

Yeah, here's version 2 focusing on allies instead of wizards:
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=103743
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Posted 11 October 2010 at 16:52

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I rebuilt it on MTG Vault and tweeked it a little...

Here goes: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=103741
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Posted 11 October 2010 at 17:17

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Self milling is pretty common. Dredge and Cephalid Breakfast were pretty huge on the pro tour for a while. Cephalid Breakfast especially had that "come from nowhere" type of explosiveness that made it pretty ridiculous. My own version of the deck follows.

http://mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=103907
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Posted 11 October 2010 at 23:40

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http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=47612

I made this one once upon a time. Screw dredge, this is a burn deck.
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Posted 12 October 2010 at 00:36

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I've never played a dredge deck before (with or against), so I thought this would be a fun chance to take a stab at it.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=104031
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Posted 12 October 2010 at 05:22

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seen this deck in a few forms... this is the one i prefer... ;)

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=103741
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Posted 15 October 2010 at 08:54

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Last week I played a guy who used hedron crab to mill vengevines. He had some of other stuff too but I can't remember what. In type 1 which sounds like what you're talking abou can use stuff like dredge and entomb to better effect than hedron crab.
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Posted 15 October 2010 at 20:46

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