Sigh... +1

Love mill, and this is awesome. Path to Exile helps with the trap--if you splash white. White has some good resources like Wall of Denial and Ghostly Prison .

You don't have to go that route, just a thought! Good lookin' list.

Haunting Echoes could really take advantage of this list. Not to mention the look on your opponents face when you get rid of most of their deck, since a lot of people like playing 4 copies of everything.

Echoes seems nice but it's expensive... I'll see if I can find a way to make it work--I've toyed with playing hideaway lands.

emask In a previous iteration of this deck (found here), I splashed green for removal, but I found that it diluted my plan too much so I went back to a pure Dimir mill with a couple of stall cards (Disfigure and Dispel ).

No worries! Looks good.

I've tested Augur of Bolas and didn't like him as much as Augury Owl . The Scry is rather nice.

Have you thought about running white for Path to Exile and Day of Judgment ?

In any case, much love for the mill! I run a very similar list:

Augury Owl looks good, seeing as with Bolas I often scrap lands that I may need. Will give it a try.

That's exactly why I switched them! Plus, the flying chump is nice.

With the number of cheap spells you're running, why Augur of Bolas over Snapcaster Mage ?

Because even though the spells are cheap, Snapcaster is still too slow for this deck. T4 I would rather Mind Funeral than flashback a Glimpse or Breaking.

But it just gives you so many options! You don't have to mill with him, he's also an emergency Surgical Extraction , Disfigure , Dispel , Spell Snare or Visions of Beyond whenever you need them, as well as everything else! A fantastic top-deck.

And have you considered Mesmeric Orb ? I like it a lot (and so does snappy).

Anyway, I'm curious as to why you chose to run Thought Scour , the mill on it seems more or less negligible, so you just wanted a cantrip? With Augur of Bolas and Visions of Beyond I'm surprised you need it, wouldn't you rather run another mill spell, or just increase the numbers of some of your 1 and 2-ofs and increase consistency that way instead?

I've tried it. Too slow. It works against mana heavy decks like Tron and Control but with Control they'll just counter it.

Thought Scour is for the cantrip, yes. End of their turn I'm holding 1 blue open for either one of the few counterspells I have or that. If nothing I can counter, I play it on endstep. The mill 2 is just a bonus. If this wasn't a mill deck, it would not be in there.

Looks solid, Spell Snare is a SB card in my opinion. Remand is one of the best counters in modern. it buys you turn so you can mill them out and draws you a card.

I thought about that but I don't want to be holding 2 mana open since I'm not a control deck.

Hmm.. you could try Quicken for EOT card draw then mill considering all your hard mill is sorcery or just a cantrip.

That's one option. I'll try it.

cool, let me know how it goes.

+1

seems like a nice viable mill setup for modern

Worst T1 matchup is control, so I'm proud that I can hold my own against the other archetypes.

Granted, I haven't tested against Affinity yet, but I have sideboard against that so we'll see how that works.

I like the way this deck plays, +1.

Can you look at my Mill C deck, i think the cards are great but I never really won a match with it (played against my cousin through playtest).

Your knowledge on milling would be helpful.

How has Trapmaker's Snare been working out for you? I've considered using them, but they seem to work against me when I want to play a 2-mana sorcery mill card on turn 2.

Honestly, not well enough. The play is that on turn 1 drop a land, pass, they drop a fetch, pass, i drop a land, pass, they fetch, I play Trapmaker, get Archive Trap, play for 0.

I don't find myself with Snare in my hand often enough to make it worth it. However, I do have Ravenous Trap in the side, and that is against Tron/reshuffle effects so when I get around to playing Tron with a Snare in hand and Ravenous in deck, it should work better then.

Perhaps Increasing Confusion ?

No--an early version of this deck did run it and it sucked. Most times X will be for less than 5. It's not really viable in a format that has turn 5 and 6 wins.