Self Mill. Yeah, it Works!

by Jessie on 18 September 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (4)


Instants (7)

Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

Deck that mills itself to pump up Atog/Slag Fiend.

Idea is to keep drawing cards and putting them into your graveyard.
More Artifacts in your graveyard, the more dangerous and powerful Slag Fiend becomes.

We are aiming for 9/10 Atogs and 10/10 Slag Fiends.
But it is possible to get a 16/16 or higher Slag Fiend!

I am aiming for Turn 3 and Turn 4 wins for around 30 dollars.

How to Play

Runs 20 Artifacts to put into the graveyard to power up Slag Fiend.
And 20 Artifacts that can be sacked to power up Atog.
4 Lands are Artifacts which can also be sacked.

Double Cleave and Panic Spellbomb to make sure massive damage gets through to my opponent.

Burning Inquiry and Faithless Looting to put Artifacts into the graveyard.

Urza's Bauble and Mishra's Bauble to draw cards.
Pyrite Spellbomb and Panic Spellbomb to draw cards.

Lotus Petal for mana ramp and to feed your graveyard with another Artifact.
Shrapnel Blast/Ornithopter is going to give your opponent 5 damage and power up Slag Fiend.

All of the Artifacts can be sacked to draw you cards/give you mana AND they can also be sacked to power up Atog!

Deck Tags

  • Atog
  • Slag fiend
  • Self Mill
  • Mono Red

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

300220

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Self Mill. Yeah, it Works!

Now this is a nice little deck. I love the synergy and is going to be very powerful as long as you can protect the Slag Fiend. Only additions I would think would be Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots (so you can target him with the double cleave) and maybe Perilous Myr. Well done sir.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 18:17

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Wow, wasn't expecting that! This deck isn't even public yet, lol!
Thank you.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 18:42

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I get around ;)

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 18:51

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Oh, and Shrapnel Blast. Love that in this deck. :)

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 18:57

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I found room! :)
Very nice suggestion, thanks!

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:07

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If you allow me to suggest card to your sideboard, Fatal Frenzy could be a good choice.
Otherwise:

*Sees a 1/2 Atog attacking*
Aww, who is a cute little monster? Who is a cute little monster? You are! Yes! You are!
*suddenly Atog devours 5 artifacts and gets hit by Double Cleave*
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF...

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:15

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Doing my first Draw Sample Hand.

Draw 7: Mountain, 2 Urza's Bauble, 2 Pyrite Spellbomb, 2 Slag Fiend.

Turn 1. No Draw. Play Mountain. Play 2 Urza's Baubles.
Tap Mountain and play 1 Slag Fiend.
Sack the 2 Urza's Baubles.

End of Turn 1. You have 3 cards left in hand: 2 Pyrite Spellbomb and 1 Slag Fiend
End of Turn 1. You have a 2/2 Slag Fiend in play with summoning sickness.
End of Turn 1. You have 1 Mountain in play.
Opponent is at 20 life.

Turn 2. Draw 3 cards (1 from upkeep and 2 from Baubles): Faithless Looting, Atog, Mountain.
Play Mountain.
Tap 1 Mountain to Faithless Looting (you draw 2 cards and discard 2 cards): 2 Mishra's Bauble discard 2 Pyrite Spellbomb.
Play the two Mishra's Bauble and sack them.
With last 1 card play Slag Fiend.
Attack with 1st Slag Fiend, which is now a 6/6.

End of Turn 2. You have 0 cards in your hand.
End of Turn 2. You have 2 6/6 Slag Fiend.
End of Turn 2. You have 2 Mountains in play.
Opponent takes 6 damage.
Opponent has 14 life.

Turn 3. Draw 3 cards (1 from upkeep and 2 from Baubles): Lotus Petal, Slag Fiend, Mishra's Bauble.
Play the Lotus Petal, sack it, and play Slag Fiend.
Play the Mishra's Bauble and sack it.
Attack with the 1st and 2nd Slag Fiends, which are 8/8 each.

End of Turn 3. You have 0 cards in your hand.
End of Turn 3. You have 3 8/8 Slag Fiends.
End of Turn 3. You have 2 Mountains in play.
Opponent takes 16 damage.
Opponent has 0 life. Dead.

Turn 4. Draw 2 cards (1 from upkeep and 1 from Bauble): Burning Inquiry, Panic Spellbomb
Tap 1 Mountain to play Burning Inquiry (draw 3 and discard 3 cards): Mountain, Burning Inquiry, Lotus Petal discard those 3 cards.
Tap 1 Mountain to play Panic Spellbomb. Sack Panic Spellbomb.
Attack with 1st and 2nd and 34d Slag Fiends.

End of Turn 4. You have 0 cards in your hand.
End of Turn 4. You have 3 10/10 Slag Fiends!!
End of Turn 4. You have 2 Mountains in play.
Opponent takes 30 damage.
Opponent has -30 life. Super dead.

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That example was on my very 1st Draw Sample.
It was a possible Turn 3 Win.
Definite Turn 4 Win unless opponent played major disruption.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:42

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Whoah! Typing all that must have taken its time.
Looks good though. I have that weird feeling with this deck that I might even create it in real life...
Choices, choices...

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:45

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Yep, just take out the Lotus Petal and add in Ornithopter! :)
Under 20 dollars!

And Ornithopter can be sacked to Shrapnel Blast for 5 damage and to put another artifact into the graveyard (giving Slag Fiend +1/+1).

I am sorta of leanin toward taking out Lotus Petal anyways. It makes the deck Vintage illegal and since all of my cards are 2 mana or less...I kinda don't need the mana ramp anyways.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:47

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You could use Codex Shredder/Ghoulcaller's Bell on yourself instead of the Lotus Petals.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 19:57

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Possibly...it seems very slow, but steady. 1 card a turn.
I think this deck is aiming to try to go as fast as possible.

It is a good suggestion though!
Might try it with a green mill deck.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:02

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This reminds me of my scrapyard deck. I like it!!!

http://www.mtgvault.com/drakeraenes/decks/scrapyard-warfare/

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:10

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Scrapyard Salvo is interesting for this deck.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:14

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Thanks drake! Will give your deck a look.
And crap, Scrapyard Salvo would rock!
The Disciple of the Vault/Scrapeyard Salvo/Shrapnel Blast/Slag Fiend/Lots of free artifacts deck is making itself!!!

4 Slag Fiend (1st Win Condition)
4 Disciple of the Vault (2nd Win Condition)
4 Ornithopter
4 Urza's Bauble
4 Shrapnel Blast
3 Scrapyard Salvo
3 Lotus Petal
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Burning Inquiry

11 Swamp
11 Mountain

Crap...Artifact lands...how did i miss those!!! Need those too.
Putting Great Furnace in the red deck right now!

Am building the black/red one as we speak.
Will post it here.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:31

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http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/821559/

Will have in the deck description, credit giving to you.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 21:04

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Glad i could provide you some inspiration :)

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 21:41

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It's too bad you don't splash Black. Disciple of the Vault would be a nice addition.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:16

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That is a nasty card! It is banned, isn't it? Or was in Modern...I think.

You could try this:
Run Mind Funeral. Very, very little lands.
Self mill yourself that way.
That is a way black would work!
Lots of Artifacts for Disciple of the Vault.

Maybe...maybe not. That might be two different decks. Mind Funeral self mill deck and a Disciple of the Vault/Artifacts/Slag Fiend deck.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:21

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It's legal in Modern, Vintage, and Legacy.

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:24

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Making it now. :)

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Posted 18 September 2014 at 20:32

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I used to have a deck like this, but it was way more terrible than this one, i shall build this deck! :)

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Posted 23 September 2014 at 21:56

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Tell me how it goes!

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Posted 23 September 2014 at 23:34

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Okay, i will tell you when it is finished and I use it, I think this is the kind of deck that I would go to my local game store and pick up the cards from the bulk boxes. :)

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Posted 24 September 2014 at 00:34

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Thanks for liking this deck...just relooked at it, and was surprised at all the likes.
Thanks!

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Posted 26 September 2014 at 15:15

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No, it is my pleasure to hit the +1 like button on decks like this!

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Posted 26 September 2014 at 16:23

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It is about 12 dollars over budget..but it is pretty decent, for what it is.

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Posted 26 September 2014 at 18:20

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Pfff... Screw my budget! This deck is great! Hands down.

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Posted 26 September 2014 at 20:25

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Thanks :)

Hey Northy, I suck at aggro and I suck at playing White...therefore, I want to make a White Aggro deck.
Any advice? I know I have heard people brag about your white human decks.

With my decks...i tend to make them midrange...almost everytime.

I start with "aggro" in mind or i start with "control" in mind...and my decks always seem to have a mixture. Mostly it is because, midway through the decks...i start to think, "But what if my opponent plays x card, or that card," and then i start to add cards like removal/bounce/safety cards.

Same thing with aggro...i start in mind "super aggro" and then halfway through I start throwing in cards that gain life, cards that stop combos, cards that kill other creatures...etc...I am too fixed on making all around decent decks. And stuff like aggro seems like it has to be all or nothing.

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Posted 26 September 2014 at 22:18

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http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/white-aggro-20-starter-deck/

There, tried to my best ability.
Maybe you will approve.

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Posted 27 September 2014 at 01:26

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Are you sure you want to stay in Legacy just for those 3 cards? They can be replaced by a lot of sacrifice-and-draw-low-cost artifacts, like Chromatic Sphere, Chromatic Star. Also Ichor Wellspring is even better than the cards you have put, because you draw when it comes into play and you draw when it's sacrified. Also you can replace the Great Furnaces with Darksteel Citadel, no problem for the colored mana because you can transform the colorless mana into colored with 8x Chromatic Sphere, Chromatic Star. P.S. You can also consider adding a couple of Apostle's Blessings... you really freak out when you have your 16/16 Atog and he gets Path of Exiled...

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Posted 10 May 2015 at 07:16

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After trying this I can say it doesn't work. With these few creatures you get an average of two creatures per game. A couple of anti creature and you are over.

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Posted 10 May 2015 at 19:55

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