If You Can't Beat Them, Mill Them

Commander / EDH Counterspell Curse Mill Mono-Blue

perfectdisaster

Instant (22)

• 1x Anticognition
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Bury in Books
• 1x Deny Existence
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Devious Cover-Up
• 1x Didn't Say Please
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Negate
• 1x Neutralize
• 1x Opt
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Put Away
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reject
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Thought Collapse
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Turn Aside

Artifact (5)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Drowned Secrets
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Psychic Corrosion

Creature (10)

• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Merfolk Secretkeeper
• 1x Riddlekeeper
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Fascination
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mind Sculpt
• 1x Sanity Grinding
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Stream of Thought
• 1x Tome Scour
• 1x Traumatize

Land (36)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 34x Island
• 1x Thespian's Stage

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Artifact (2)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Sapphire Medallion

Instant (1)

• 1x Mystical Tutor

Creature (1)

• 1x Iceberg Cancrix

Land (1)

• 1x Snow-Covered Island

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If you can't beat them, just mill them! That's how the saying goes, right? With this deck, you'll truly be able to Traumatize your opponents. Mill your opponent(s) on your upkeep (Patient Rebuilding), on your draw step or when just drawing a card (Jace's Erasure), or when you play a land (Ruin Crab, or Hedron Crab). Mill them on their upkeep (Curse of the Bloody Tome) or when they play a spell (Memory Erosion). Mill them when you counter a spell (Didn't Say Please or Thought Collapse), or swing at them with a fish (Fleet Swallower). Mill them for whatever reason - better yet, no reason at all. This deck will help you do all of those things, and more.

You won't have many friends, but you will (probably) have victory.

But wait, there's more. Is just milling your opponent not enough? Do you truly wish to make them regret every decision they've ever made? There's some flavor for that too. Frogify their commander. Better yet cast Imprisoned in the Moon and turn it into a colorless land instead.

There's a sub-theme of Jace here because he is bae, and originally this was a Jace deck until I started focusing on mill. You can take out all the planeswalkers and put in more counters (because blue), Mystical Tutor, any of the big Eldrazi, Iceberg Cancrix (for the meme) as well as update all the lands to Snow-Covered Islands. (I haven't for budget and aesthetic reasons.)

The land base here is all basics, with the exception of Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage - for that combo. I didn't include ways to tutor for a basic (Wayfairer's Bauble, Fabled Passage, Terramorphic Expanse, Traveler's Amulet, etc.) because in this deck it'd just be fetching... a basic island. I'd rather just have the basic and save myself the shuffle - and in the case of the artifacts, I'd rather spend the mana on something that will further this deck's endgame or a counter. But you do you, if you want to add them you're more than welcome too. I've never had an issue with running just the basics. Or you could add Expedition Map or something like it to fetch Dark Depths and/or Thespian's Stage.

"...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." from The Dark Knight

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Horror, Manifest 2/2 C, Marit Lage, On an Adventure, Monarch Emblem, Wizard 2/2 U
Folders	popo