UB Mindcrank

by missmana on 14 March 2018

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (4 cards)

Sorceries (2)

Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

Won against Jeskai Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiUw2-hGob8

How to Play

Mindcrank + Guildmage, and any trigger. This build is creeping in budget dual lands, and poor man cantrips. Likely to replace Angelsong and Scarab Feast with Anticpates.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Budget
  • Dimir
  • Mill

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

3191700

Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for UB Mindcrank

The current modern meta is swimming with decks that add tireless tracker to their decklist.
Stony silence is already a stable in any deck splashing white, but the consequence of a spread in trackers
will very likely mean an increase in the use of stony silence, which will cripple your deck whenever you encounter it.

So you need to deal with stony silence, perhaps with something in the sideboard ??? (Go with echoing truth or leave no trace)

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Playing esper mill myself I usually find the odd card for my sideboard once in a while.
Since the current meta has a variance of cards currently using +1/+1 counters, I've begun flirting with fate transfer.

By using fate transfer you will be dealing with cards like:
tireless tracker, scavenging ooze, archbound ravenger, that land from junk that gives all their creatures +1/+1 counters at a slow pace, at least two critters from "humans" and walking ballista (which is harder to steal the counters from).

Hope you find these details usefull, and congrats with the victory ;D

You might find these two "links" usefull:

My own esper-mill, designed by "evolution and paperstrips": (Loong story)
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/evolving-godicas-mill-v4/

How to use paperstrips to gather data from your games: (Either by testing alone or if your friends allow you to use them)
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/datagathering-with-paperstrips/

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Posted 14 March 2018 at 08:22

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Budget. I recently got back in to magic, and thought I'd see how far I could get with the cheapest builds.

Stony Silence doesn't stop this deck, Mindcrank is triggered, and anything entering the graveyard either by cast or death triggers it, life loss as well. Path to Exile stops this deck, but if you play Guildmage and trigger it in response (which is usually how it's played), then it doesn't matter.

Upgrading, I'd get Damnation over Whelming Wave. And have Whelming on sideboard against Emrakul or Blightsteel.

I might try Fate Transfer, but I'm leaning towards Dismember or Fateful Push for non-budget.

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Posted 17 March 2018 at 05:39

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Stony Locks down the bells and cranial archive, which is 6 Cards which is a tenth of your deck :D

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Posted 19 March 2018 at 15:47

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Bell is just one of the triggers. Trespasser's, Duress, playing a spell, anything entering the graveyard, etc. Cranial Archive is because it costs little money. Just use any of the better graveyard shufflers. I prefer Ulamog, but some people don't.

I updated this deck with other budget cards, pulled Angelsong for Anticipate, and am trying out some budget dual lands. I don't think you understand the point of budget builds, it's like a challenge. How far can you get before you have to turn into a tier deck.

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Posted 21 March 2018 at 10:19

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I understand budget fine, but won't waste time on looking up whats cheapest to get.
I've run several commonkill decks vs legacy while trying to show people how far you can get with artificially created mana-curves. In the end I simply became so competitive that I only buy what fits into my small Collection of evolution-made decks.

We each have our own pets.

But since I am very competitive I like giving away hints on how to beat the big players with odd card-picks, and you fell target to that by being a budget player, since I always assume that other budget players like to beat the big League in the end :)

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Posted 21 March 2018 at 12:52

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Not really, got bored. I just wanted to see if a junk combo could be made to work.

I tried another junk combo, the Ranger/Adaption combo, I tried it in different forms, I don't like it, so I was messing with this.

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Posted 24 March 2018 at 15:19

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