Check out the Apprentice's Workshop 8 article, written by KrazyCaley, featuring this deck!
Main idea:
The new Dimir (U/B) GTC cards seem to have, in my opinion, made milling a legitimate and reliable competitive strategy. I hope that this deck will perfect the milling strategy, and be viable in competitive Standard MTG. It will set up a sustainable mill-source with Consuming Aberration, while also providing a control aspect to make sure you get to bring out the horror. While creating a competitive deck, I hope to keep this a budget deck. I'm not sure if it can be done, but why the hell not?
Key Aspects:
- Consuming Aberration -- This is the heart of my mill deck. Casting multiple spells each turn will certainly wear down an opponent's library.
- Control, control, and more control -- this deck isn't exactly a Boros aggro deck, so it takes a few turns to get going. It uses cards such as Cyclonic Rift and
Dimir Charm
to slow the opponent down until you can drop a massive Consuming Aberration.
Modifying for a Competitive Deck
This deck is pretty competitive, except that as a budget deck, it lacks a few of the more expensive cards. The land base can be modified to include Drowned Catacomb and Watery Grave. Other than that, You could drop 1
Grisly Spectacle
and one of either Lazav, Dimir Mastermind or Consuming Aberration for 2 Jace, Memory Adepts.
Invisible Stalker
I am not running Invisible Stalker because it just didn't work for this deck. It doesn't provide the offensive or defensive qualities that this deck needs. Jace's Phantasm can get thorough most of the time with flying, and also becomes a 5/5 by T3-4. Also, Duskmantle Guildmage can win games with enough ciphers in one turn. Invisible Stalker usually just sat there, waiting to be used as a chump blocker, which it is really bad at.
All suggestions, comments, and +1's are welcome (as always)!
