Esper Archive Trap Mill

Modern Competitive Mill Tempo WUB (Esper)

CharType

Land (25)

• 4x Field of Ruin
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 2x Mana Confluence
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Plains
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (22)

• 4x Archive Trap
• 2x Crypt Incursion
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Thought Scour
• 4x Trapmaker's Snare
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Creature (8)

• 4x Hedron Crab
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Sorcery (5)

• 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Mind Funeral

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Sideboard

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Leyline of Sanctity
• 3x Leyline of the Void

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Fragmentize

Artifact (3)

• 3x Ensnaring Bridge

Instant (3)

• 3x Surgical Extraction

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Breaking / Entering
• 2x Mind Funeral

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mesmeric Orb

Land (1)

• 1x Ghost Quarter

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Fraying Sanity

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Based off of this deck: Esper Salt Mill (Update)

This deck takes the basic UB+W mill deck and focuses on Archive Trap and Hedron Crab. I removed a few of the cards I thought would underperform in order to focus on the cards I thought were best.

Archive Trap mills a whole 13 cards. Assuming 52 cards left in their deck after the opening draw, that's about 1/4 of their deck. That's the equivalent of roughly 5 damage in a burn deck, and for no mana. That's extremely good. It's good even if you need to use a 2 mana card like Trapmaker's Snare or Snapcaster Mage to grab it. So, the deck focuses a lot on the trap.

With the deck focusing so heavily on Archive Trap, it's important to have a good way to force the opponent to search. So the deck runs four copies of Field of Ruin. As a bonus, it also triggers Hedron Crab's landfall ability. If anyone knows of any other good cards that force your opponent to search, I would love to hear suggestions.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 32 - 9 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.97
Based on	Esper Salt Mill (KHM Update) TheSurgeon MDN