New Midrange Mill

by SoulofMirrodin on 04 June 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (2)


Artifacts (3)

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Deck Description

This is the evolved form of this deck
http://www.mtgvault.com/soulofmirrodin/decks/mill-aggro/
This is what that deck will look like once I actually get around to buying Spell Burst, Watery Grave, Thoughtseize, Shadow of Doubt, Creeping Tar Pit, and Glimpse the Unthinkable.

How to Play

Play Jace's Phantasm or Wight of Precinct Six early, then mill your opponents with either Glimpse the Unthinkable, Mesmeric Orb, Breaking // Entering, or Ghost Quarter combined with Archive Trap. Land a Delver of Secrets early, and then flip him as soon as you find one of the 24 instant and sorceries in the deck. Swing for large amounts of damage with the Wight, Delver, and Phantasm, removing any threats that get in the way with Victim of Night and Slaughter Pact. Wreck your opponents' early game with Thoughtseize. If any problematic removal spells, hate cards, or combo pieces come up, use Spell Pierce. If you see any problematic combo pieces, powerful creatures, or removal spells in your opponent's graveyard, remove them with Surgical Extraction. Recover already used cards and cards that you self-milled with Mesmeric Orb using Snapcaster Mage. If your opponent is still alive after this, they will soon be milled to death. If you are facing reanimator, dredge, storm, melira combo, birthing pod, or a deck focused on Snapcaster Mage, sideboard in Grafdigger's cage. If you are facing a deck with creatures and artifacts with annoying abilities such as Urzatron, Affinity, Jund, Melira Pod, or Splinter Twin, sideboard in Damping Matrix. If you are facing a control deck, sideboard in Defense Grid and make them pay 5 mana for their Mana Leaks. If you are facing a deck with creatures that are hard to kill like Geist of Saint Traft or one that uses many creatures with low toughness, sideboard in Infest. If you are facing Living End, sideboard in Spell Burst. If you are facing Scapeshift, WUR Control, Wur Midrange, Bogle, Splinter Twin, Kiki-Pod, or Infect, sideboard in Spellskite. If you are facing Scapeshift, Kiki-Pod, or Melira Pod, sideboard in Shadow of Doubt. If you are facing Jund, Junk, or any similar decks that use cards like Dark Confidant and Thoughtseize in addition to shocklands and fetchlands, use Bloodchief Ascension.

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Aggro
  • Modern
  • Blue
  • Black

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for New Midrange Mill

Beastly! Check out Consuming Aberration.

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Posted 04 June 2013 at 19:54

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Thanks Zach, I had forgotten how amazing Consuming Abberation is.

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Posted 04 June 2013 at 20:08

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So why so many ghost quarters?

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Posted 04 June 2013 at 20:11

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With them, I can get Archive Trap off for free. It is great, especially when I do it on the second turn with a Jace's Phantasm out. I can also use it on myself if I don't have the lands that I want. It also messes with decks such as Valakut and Urzatron.

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Posted 04 June 2013 at 20:21

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Oh very nice. I hadn't thought of the forced search aspect.

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Posted 04 June 2013 at 21:53

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Should I move Extirpate to the main deck? If so, what should I move from the main deck?

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Posted 05 June 2013 at 05:36

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Leave it in the side board and then sub it in if you need to.

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Posted 05 June 2013 at 13:01

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Yo SOULY!

I know you like to play odd choices sometimes.

What do you think of enter the infinite + shelldock island ? Think there could be something in such a choice?

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Posted 01 July 2013 at 11:17

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Good idea, but my decks aren't dedicated enough to mill for that to work.

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Posted 01 July 2013 at 14:10

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Ach!!! Make it so...
Or maybe I'll think something up.
U seen my statements on putting mesmeric orb in creature+mill? (Use the sewer nemesis by targetting yourself, then just play critters, tap lands and attack, attack attack!)

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Posted 01 July 2013 at 14:15

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I'll think about Mesmeric Orb. Sewer Nemesis would be great, but it isn't modern legal.

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Posted 02 July 2013 at 05:36

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Great news!
I've discovered that two mill-decks have actually won in modern!

One very close to a hybrid of our builds, (Got third place)
And another closer to your design on this page (got first place)

So it's possible to mill the bastards.

Now with two mill decks that have won in modern, we actually have something solid to build on...

Perhaps a hybrid between the two?

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Posted 31 July 2013 at 11:09

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I've copyed the two decks on my own "page", go take a look :)

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Posted 31 July 2013 at 12:00

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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 12:56

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You haven't milled since june???

Here's a new pro modern mill. won 2nd place.

http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/charkattacks-modern-mill/

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Posted 07 December 2013 at 13:38

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Have been, just using my other list (no money for Glimpse and Liliana). It has been doing alright, but I still think that it won't do well until I have fetchlands, Goyf, Ooze, and Abrupt Decay. Thanks for the link.

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Posted 08 December 2013 at 17:13

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Well, the link is not a problem to provide :D
But it sort of settles a lot of issues when the three only mill designs that have won modern shares 4 cards in common!

It means it's pretty open how you design mill appart from those 16 essential cards that seems to win.
It should be possible to bash half a deck together with these millcards making the halfdecks an even funner thing to toy with :D

I'll be using the top part of this halfdeck:
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/wdm-promillmilllock/

I might play it with half a thresh-deck or maybe half a death and taxes design.
I have toyed with a milldeck before using a UW stoneforge design where the creatures were thrown out and I kept the counterspells and removal.

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Posted 09 December 2013 at 10:53

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New modern mill :D
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/nanihas-ub-modern-mill/

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Posted 20 February 2014 at 08:27

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