if your having issues with aggro you need more crypt incursion or main board damnation. I love the feeling when they get you down under 10 life and they think they have you while they are sitting with 10+ creatures in their graveyard= crazy life for you.

thanks for your tips again +1

I'd find a way to give your Spellskite Shroud or Hexproof, that way you have guaranteed protection from single target spells. Though thats just me. Amazing deck! +1

@Zalephatos - I do like the idea, but I don't think that this is the deck for it. However I've been thinking about brewing a new G/W hatebear deck where that would fit in nicely.... ;)

Take out darkness for Extirpate because more removal is simply better. Also for aggro decks your going to need to have a few kill removal spells like Go for the Throat or Doom Blade id have those replace the Extirpate because depending on their colors those are some of the best two drop kill spells i have come across that are mono colored

So i love the deck +1.

I see we have Verdant Catacombs and Breeding Pool in here and i understand the Nature's Claim but if you know what deck your facing horrible idea just keep to Watery Grave i see you have fetch lands IMO add more to combo with Hedron Crab turn 3 already milled 12 cards, yes please! I would remove 1-2 Thought Scour for some 1 drops like maybe add another Surgical Extraction or Jace's Phantasm because having 2 thought scour in opening hand is pointless. Think about splashing in some white for Supreme Verdict and Path to Exile

Hey there, I love mill and you seem to know how to roll with it. I'm looking for suggestions for a new form of mill deck.. It's still being developed but I'd love some pointers. I usually play with some friends every week or so.. Check out Arkham if you get a chance?

+1

If you want to play Path to Exile and still have sideboard cards for Affinity, play Stony Silence . It's the best sideboard card against Affinity aside from the wraths (Creeping Corrosion and Shatterstorm ).

Your obviously really good at this deck type would you be willing to take a look at mine its slower but still usually mills out around 7-8. its ally mill deck

I feel like Ensnaring Bridge + Visions of Beyond is a bit redundant. Also you should think about swapping Spell Pierce for Thoughtseize .

Thoughtseize + Surgical Extraction on turn 1 is a killer move for combo decks!

Also Extirpate for those blue decks with counters are very nice.

oh and why the 1 Overgrown Tomb and 1 Breeding Pool and not 2 more Watery Grave ?

The green sources are for Nature's Claim out of the SB as well as Abrupt Decay that I use against certain matchups. The decay isn't on the SB currently but it gets moved in and out of the SB often. I think I will put the black discard back in now that you mention it. I used to run 3 IoK MD before maindecking the Ensnaring Bridge and Jace's Phantasm , and it seemed to work against certain decks. Since Visions is an instant, I can just draw at the end of my opponent's turn and use most of the cards during my turn, as I normally don't use visions until the rest of my hand has been emptied. It does look like a nonbo in this list, but playing a modern Ancestral Recall is the main draw to playing mill imho!

I think that white offers better splash options. You get Stony Silence , which is better against Affinity, and you can play Path to Exile , Rest in Peace , etc. should you want to, which are much better cards overall than Nature's Claim .

Tbh, I don't have any Marsh Flats so I don't run white atm. I also like having a turn 1 out to a Leyline of Sanctity , as that card completely shuts down my deck. The 1 mana answers to a leyline in white aren't as versitile against other decks (like affinity), which is why I decided to use green. Stony Silence and Path would be great additions (I will not use Rest in Peace since it's a nonbo with Surgical Extraction , Crypt Incursion , and Snapcaster Mage however), but in my local meta the green splash serves me well. If I were to take this to a large event, the white splash would help more against the field but atm I can't blow $ on more fetches.

a small simple change would be to add maybe 2xEvolving Wilds to combo a little with Hedron Crab ....Also i agree with a few people who commented above, i've never seen Darkness before, and i also absolutely love it!

Darkness really is the bomb, since it can stop Infect's early-game win and just give me that last turn or 2 to win. Now that the new set is being spoiled, I'm definitely going to pick up a set of Polluted Delta for this deck for more H.Crab activations, so no worries there!

See the newest update for a question/brew that I've been thinking about!

Verdant Catacombs is nice but a Scalding Tarn into a Steam Vents would give you double landfall for Hedron Crab while giving access to the other half of Breaking / Entering .. Just a thought

I already have access to the other half of Breaking / Entering due to Shelldock Isle . However, in all the games I've ever played with this deck, there's never been an instance where grabbing one of their creatures has been better than milling them out more, so I don't think the red splash is necessary. Plus there's almost no way I ever get 6 mana since I'm only running 21 lands. I consider my 'cap' for cmc at 3. I may be turning this deck esper now that Flooded Strand has been reprinted, but I need to get a 2nd copy before I do that. Thanks for looking though!

Put the Mesmeric Orb in. It will be good! There is nothing that says to me "let me think about it again".It just mills in an still good amount in early game and till mid game more than a Glimpse the Unthinkable .

Hey, I updated my mill deck drastically. I added in Treasure Cruise, Thought Scour, and bumped it up to a playset of Visions of Beyond. This allows me to draw an unbelievable amount of cards, almost always hitting my land drops to trigger Hedron Crab and to curve out perfectly to get the most out of your cards! The Thought Scour fuels Treasure cruise, along with the 8 fetch lands I am running now. Also the double hits for the good 'ol crab is amazing!

Check it out! Competitive Blitz Mill Deck

Maybe I missed it, but Leyline of the Void. it stops Graveyard based decks, which seems to be your worst match up. even if it is a nombo with Visions of Beyond. but you still get to keep your graveyard which is cool. have fun.

I have a set of Leyline of the Void, and the only matchup where I want it is against Tron or other decks that run the big 3 Eldrazi. LotV is better in this deck than something else like Rest in Peace, but as long as I have any one of my other gravehate cards (and I include Surgical Extraction in those), I normally don't worry too much about what they have. I figure that not enough people are running Vengevine decks right now, so I pretty much just plan on dodging that matchup if I ever take this deck to another large event. I have tested against a Loam-Venge decklist, and I'll agree that the matchup is very tough. There just aren't enough SB slots to cover everything lol. Thanks for looking though!

Love this deck! My friend and I just discovered the Trap and Mind Funeral etc. He built a modern mill deck using some of those same cornerstones and it's a blast to play against and with. I always hated Mill because it took forever and was boring. This is REALLY quick. nothing boring about it at all

Thanks for the comment jraynor! Against most of the competitive Modern decks that run fetches or search their library in some way, this deck is the bomb! Unfortunately I haven't been able to play it very much recently since many players in my meta are running hatebears, Merfolk, or budget token decks without fetches to abuse with this deck. But I can tell you this: if you get even 1 free Trap activation during a game, the chances of you winning via mill almost feels guaranteed!

Someone at my LGS windmill-slammed four traps after an opponent's T1 fetch. That will live on forever in the annals of the store's history. Here's hoping you get that hand someday!

Also, love the deck.