the basis is pretty simple for this one. Use jace for his free 10 card mill, jaces phantasm, call of the nightwing, mindeye drake and balustrade spy are there to deal with fliers (along with balustrades/mindeyes mill effect ofc). deathcult rogue is used to get in hits with cipher cards on them like paranoid delusions/CotN, mortus strider is a repeatable chump blocker, and jace's archivist can be used to refill my hand wight of precinct 6 is used primarily as a beatstick once the discard pile starts adding up, phenax and consuming aberation have good synergy, aberation gets big off the graveyard, then phenax can let him tap and double there discard pile. duskmantle guildmage can let me do a bit of damage to them when they have to discard but i havnt found him particularly useful without mindcrank.though.
grisly spectacle and deaths approach are creature control, mind funeral is self explainatory, and essence harvest is mainly for consuming abberation/WoP6 for heavy life damage, but can be used on any decent sized creature of mine for a life boost if needed. increasing confusion is good to play from the grave since it doubles its effect. midnight recovery is my way to get creatures back from the grave, with cipher, but hasnt been used much im thinking about taking it out. B&E is a "glimpse" for 2$ and only mills 2 less cards. last but not least keening stone is in there for its ability to double there graveyard with a single tap.
this deck has a lot of synergy, and with things that work together like keeningstone/Phenax/Aberration the possibility is there to mill almost an entire deck with just 2/3 of these out but it doesnt seem to happen. maybe its due to the type of deck ive been facing but i know the deck could use some work. the only deck ive really been able to test against is a tournament deck one of my friends bought of of someone that uses the sun/frost titans and a crapload of detain/exile, annoying as hell to play against.
I have also seemed to have had some mana problems, even though i have 23 mana. i usually stay at 4 mana till around the 6th/7th turn before getting another one to play my best cards. 23 mana should be fine for a 66 card deck (was 65 but i added another island to try and deal with this issue) but even with mana shuffling before each game, i cant seem to draw enough of it.
combos ive thought of:Consuming Aberration + Phenax, God of Deception
Any unblockable + Any cipherConsuming Aberration
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Keening Stone
or really anything, keening sone will double itConsuming Aberration
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Mind Funeral
or B&E, any multiple of low cost mill spells.Consuming Aberration + reactivating any cipher cardsDuskmantle Guildmage + Jace, Memory Adept
, Breaking / Entering
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Duskmantle Guildmage
, Duskmantle Guildmage + Keening Stone
, pretty much Duskmantle + any mill card.
maybeboard/sideboard reasons:nemesis of reason - a big miller, basically a free glimpse whenever he attacks. spells can do the same but the feeling i get is my deck needs more creatures (especially since every creature i play keeps getting exiled/detained >.>)mind grind - switched in for mind funeral in multiplayer games. theyre rather hard for this mill deck ive found, having to mill one persons whole deck then move on to another persons whole deck while having to balance defence.essence harvest - i tend to take a lot of damage during the course of the game, maybe its just against the detain/exile deck but i cant mount enough of a defence to be safe behind while i mill so more of these would allow me to deal some decent damage of my own while healing up.keening stone - i think one more of these would be perfect, allowing me to draw it more and hopefully increase the chances of getting it into play faster.mirko vask, mind drinker - thinking of replacing 2 balustrade spy's with these if i can get them, but hesitent as it is a legendary. while i can play multiple balustrade's i can only have one of him out..... not to mention that would leave just the lone balustrade spy in the deck, is it worth keeping it in there as a single? idk.
