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Most Magnificent Modern Milling Machine Ever Made!

Modern Competitive Mill UB (Dimir)

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Fast Modern Mill deck. I can usually win by turn 4-5 if uninterrupted. Uses the best and most efficient mill spells in modern!

Archive Trap is the heavy-hitter here. Against most competitive decks that use fetches, A.trap is the MVP milling the most per card in hand. A god hand would be 4 Traps where the opponent cracks a fetch on turn 1-> 13x4=52 cards milled plus their land they fetched for and opening hand = GG! That almost never happens, but I've personally had 3 fire at once before for 39 cards milled!

Fractured Sanity and the new Tasha's Hideous Laughter are the next best cards, pulling their weight as far as amount of cards they mill for the cost. Mesmeric Orb is great on turn 2, but can be weak if drawn later in the game so it has been cut for now.

With the addition of Zendikar Rising, we now have 8 crabs to play on turn 1, making the deck more consistent than ever! Ruin Crab is slightly better than Hedron Crab due to the additional toughness and the fact it can get around cards like Leyline of Sanctity, so if cuts are needed in that spot cut Hedron first.

Mill is good against combo using Surgical Extraction after their important cards have been milled. Visions of Beyond is a modern-legal Ancestral Recall for us by the end of turn 3 normally. Fatal Push helps keep us alive against aggro, with additional removal in the SB if needed.

Jace, the Perfected Mind is a new addition that does a little bit of everything that the deck wants. It mills, draws cards, and gains life against aggro since they need to waste attacks/burn to get rid of it once it hits the table.

I've splashed white for Path to Exile before with its added synergy with Archive Trap, but the mana didn't work as well for me. Field of Ruin forces a search for Archive Trap while getting rid of pesky lands, which is why it is the choice over something like Ghost Quarter against land decks.

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The new Jace, the Perfected Mind is a huge upgrade to the deck, adding additional card draw, milling, and minor creature aggro protection. With additional utility in Otawara, Soaring City, and a recent meta that encourages GY hate while being hostile to fast aggro, Mill is poised in a great spot currently. Mill them out!

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(7 months ago)

-1 Crypt Incursion side
+2 Cursed Totem maybe
-1 Echoing Truth main
+2 Flooded Strand main
+4 Glimpse the Unthinkable main
+2 Sheoldred's Edict side
-1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list* main
+1 Undercity Sewers main
-1 Watery Gravefoil main
Date added 11 years
Last updated 7 months
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

33 - 6 Rares

20 - 7 Uncommons

0 - 2 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.11
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