Modern Mill

by Mathis on 14 November 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (7 cards)

Instants (2)


Enchantments (2)

Land (3)

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Deck Description

Just a fun modern mill deck. Note the sideboard would be 15 but the other 8 would change based on what is being played.

How to Play

Basically mill them out by turn four or five and get punched in the face. Play the Tome Scours, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Mind Funerals and Hedron Crabs as soon as possible. Combo the Hedron Crabs with the fetch lands for maximum damage.

Deck Tags

  • Modern Mill

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Modern Mill

As with all mill decks, you have a weak early game. That usually needs to be attended to through boardwipe on T4 or some defenders of some sort, or hell even Ensnaring Bridge if you can empty your hand quick enough. Next, take out Traumatize. It's just a bad card unless it's one of the first mill cards you've played your barely going to get anything off of it. I'd drop them and add the last 2 Archive Trap. Because the format is riddled with fetchlands, with the unlikely 4 in hand, you can mill 52 on turn 1 if they fetch. That combined with the 7 theyve drawn and it's kind of over. Also remove Szadek as he's too slow as well.

Hedron Crab in particular would work nicely with fetches, you should probably invest in those yourself.

My only other worry is the big Eldrazi. A few decks use them and you just can't win against it unless you exile it at instant speed. Need's a way to do that. Leyline of the Void works, as does Relic of Progenitus.

Hope this helps.

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 05:41

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Crypt incursion is a great card that to add. Works wonders against creature-based aggro decks like zoo and exiles emrakul at instant speed :)
Also Mesmerick orb is suprisingly strong card.
Also Id suggest to use visions of beyond instead of tome scour.

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 07:28

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Crypt Incursion is ideal. Helps stabilize from early game losing, and can drop the Eldrazi at instant speed. Idk about Visions of Beyond replacing Tome Scour. It's his best 1 drop mill. Though you could make room for it. Such a good card in this deck. How did I forget about Breaking and Entering? The next best thing thats not Glimpse the Unthinkable.

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 07:31

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You make great points. Replace the Traumatize with the Archive and the Szadek with Leyline? Sideboard the Relics and another Leyline? What do you think should be the sideboard?

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 07:34

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Honestly, I never include SB on this website. The sideboard is completely irrelevant to certain people as every LGS has a various meta. Although if you want to have a SB before you go to FNM, I suggest looking up MTGGOLDFISH and checking the most used decks and put the ideal cards against them.

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 07:36

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well that's for reactive cards... id say put 2 ghost quarter in your deck that way you can always activate your trap, or just wasteland one of their lands.

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 13:54

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have you thought of nephalia drownyard

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Posted 14 February 2015 at 19:35

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