Most Magnificent Modern Milling Machine Ever Made!

Modern Competitive Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (8)

• 4x Hedron Crab
• 4x Ruin Crab

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Perfected Mind

Land (22)

• 3x Field of Ruin
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 4x Island
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Shelldock Isle
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Undercity Sewers
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (17)

• 4x Archive Trap
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 2x Drown in the Loch
• 4x Fatal Push
• 4x Surgical Extraction
• 2x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery (12)

• 4x Fractured Sanity
• 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 4x Tasha's Hideous Laughter

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Sideboard

Land (2)

• 2x Ghost Quarter

Artifact (5)

• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 2x Ensnaring Bridge
• 2x Soul-Guide Lantern

Instant (6)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 2x Extirpate
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Long Goodbye

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Jace's Phantasm

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Dress Down
• 2x Fraying Sanity
• 4x Leyline of the Void

Artifact (10)

• 2x Chalice of the Void
• 2x Cursed Totem
• 2x Nihil Spellbomb
• 4x Profane Memento

Instant (17)

• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Hibernation
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 2x Mystical Dispute
• 2x Ravenous Trap
• 2x Sheoldred's Edict
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 4x Trapmaker's Snare
• 1x Whiplash Trap

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Feed the Swarm
• 4x Maddening Cacophony

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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.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	2 days
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 8 Rares 17 - 6 Uncommons 1 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.13
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