PA Mill (Modern MTG Deck)

PA Mill

Modern Mill UR (Izzet)

SashaTK

Land (20)

Enchantment (4)

4x Pyromancer Ascension

Artifact (3)

3x Elixir of Immortality

Instant (25)

Sorcery (8)

Sideboard

Instant (4)

4x Archive Trap

Sorcery (4)

4x Silent Departure

Maybeboard

Creature (8)

Enchantment (8)

Artifact (4)

4x Isochron Scepter

Instant (12)

Sorcery (13)

Hello everyone!

This is my take on a modern mill deck which centers around the use of the combo: Increasing Confusion + Pyromancer Ascension .

The idea is simple: build up Pyromancer Ascension while milling your opponent and drawing cards. Once you are ready, begin building up your mana pool using cards such as Desperate Ritual, Manamorphose and Pyretic Ritual. If you're running low on blue mana, try using the Mana Cylix to filter some of the red. When combined with Pyromancer Ascension, the above-mentioned cards should be able to produce a ludicrous amount of mana.

Now make sure you have an Increasing Confusion in your graveyard. If you don't already, then put it there using only two mana (it'll only Mill 1, but we're about to use it again for quadruple milling!). Now that it's in the graveyard, cast it using your built up mana reserves via its flashback ability. Whatever you spent on casting it, your opponent now mills double! Then, copy the spell using Pyromancer Ascension. If they still have deck left, finish them off with a Dream Twist next turn.

Now then, I'm feeling pretty good about this deck, but I know it still needs some work. Right now I'm getting WC around turn 7 or 8 pretty consistently, but it needs to be faster. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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A Few Changes — Feb. 7, 2015

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So in an attempt to speed things up with this deck, I have decided to take a self-mill strategy until I have the ingredients of my combo out. This also helps facilitate Pyromancer Ascension, since it puts spells in the graveyard, several of which I can cast with Flashback (notice I added Think Twice and took out Ideas Unbound in order to give myself more cards to cast from the graveyard).

Only problem with this is that I run the risk of milling something important that I need. In one playtest, I milled all four Pyromancer Ascensions and had to GG. To counteract this, I replaced the Mana Cylix with Elixir of Immortality. I also took out a Pyretic Ritual and Increasing Confusion to have a playset, but I may change this later.

Even with these changes, though, it's still running a little slow. I have a lot of problems with creature and burn decks, since I have no creatures of my own. The Elixir of Immortality helps, giving me 5 life every time I pop it, but that's only a temporary fix.

If you guys have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it!

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Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Increasing Confusion + Pyromancer Ascension
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 4 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.62
Folders	Mill Decks, Maybe use
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