Nose to the Grindstone, Boi! Budget Mill EDH

Commander / EDH Budget Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (30)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eye Collector
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Koma's Faithful
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Necromaster Dragon
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Raven Guild Master
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Shadow Alley Denizen
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1x Stern Mentor
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Zareth San, the Trickster

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 16x Island
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Artifact (10)

• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Executioner's Hood
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Millstone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Trepanation Blade

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Coerced Confession
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Enter the God-Eternals
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Paranoid Delusions
• 1x Stream of Thought
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Intimidation
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x King Narfi's Betrayal
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage

Instant (3)

• 1x Blustersquall
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Turn to Frog

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor
• 1x Jace's Mindseeker
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Sphinx Mindbreaker
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Sanity Grinding
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Traumatize

Land (2)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog

Instant (1)

• 1x High Tide

Artifact (5)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Sands of Delirium
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Drowned Secrets
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

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So here's my first take on a budget mill deck based on your initial one. I can definitely go cheaper, but that will require some major retooling and probably making it an either merfolk/wizard tribal or rogue tribal deck, with a secondary mill theme. I got it down to about $38-$40 not including the cards you already own or basic lands. I put cards that are more expensive in the Maybe board, that you can certainly add in as you have access or $$.

I think the biggest upgrade is the addition of 2 tutors for the Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank combo. Tribute Mage will tutor up the Mindcrank, and Vedalken AEthermage will tutor up either Guildmage or the Tribute Mage. I also made sure you have a little more way to get combat damage through so you have a secondary option to win or can trigger abilities that require combat damage. What do you think? Shall we play "how low can you go?" or is this what you were looking for?

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	LibraryJoy Budget Commander
Based on	A small library in Phoenix ceases to exist twechsler EDH