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"Not all nightmares can be escaped by waking."

-- Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Overview

Ashiok's Torment is my take on a modern U/B mill deck. Lots of fun to play. Race to deplete your opponents Library while stalling his efforts with some basic control.

Strategy

Obviously, with a mill deck your win condition is to attack and deplete your opponent's library. This deck tries to quickly setup and spin a few cheap, repeatable combos simultaneously to begin disrupting the opponent's setup as quickly as possible, and then pepper in a few one-off kidney shots to deal the killing blow.

Glimpse the Unthinkable was really the inspiration for the entire deck. It's extremely cost effective and is basically a neutered Archive Trap , but much cheaper to cast via conventional means.

Mind Funeral is also very powerful for its cost - if played early on the land removal can really screw over an opponent if they got a bad draw or are running a deck that's very thin on lands. It can be a bit variable in terms of how much damage it will do and is therefore a tad unpredictable, but later in the game, if they've already got all their lands out of their library (either on the battlefield or milled into the graveyard) its a 1-hit KO for 3 mana. Damn. If you've got a Fraying Sanity on the board, then you'll get an encore during the end step, which can be even more nasty, depending on the circumstances.

Hedron Crab s are good for some near-guaranteed damage every turn, but are also great for chump blocking in case of emergencies..

Generally, Fraying Sanity is good for slowly leeching cards from the opponent whenever they cast an instant, sorcery, or sacrifice a permanent, but it's also a potent force multiplier that basically doubles every mill effect you manage to activate.

In many cases, simply messing with your opponents hand/library in such an aggressive manner will be enough to prevent them from mounting a meaningful resistance, but in case they're able to muster up some legitimate threats, you've got a healthy amount of control and spot removal to stall for time. Winds of Rebuke can help get a threatening permanent off the board and back into their hand long enough to counter it with Thought Collapse .

Sideboard

It's modern, so you have a ton of options to construct your sideboard based on whatever threats you think you are likely to face in a given setting, but I've included some obvious choices here to cover some common bases:

Echoing Truth will give you some added protection against token-based beatdown decks and Hurkyl's Recall does the same for artifacts.

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99% Casual

Competitive

Revision 10 See all

(5 years ago)

+3 Ashiok, Dream Render main
+1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver main
-4 Leyline of the Void side
+4 Mana Confluence main
-4 Polluted Delta main
-4 Startled Awake  Flip main
+4 Thief of Sanity maybe
+4 Thought Collapse main
+4 Underground River main
Date added 13 years
Last updated 5 years
Exclude colors WRG
Splash colors B
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 0 Mythic Rares

34 - 8 Rares

11 - 4 Uncommons

8 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.16
Folders Cool Decks, Wanted, modern decks, Likable Decks, Mazzi Vari idee
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