Rock 'n' Mill (and a list of all MTG's mill cards)

Modern Aggro Budget Combo Mill UB (Dimir)

borto1412

Sorcery (18)

• 3x Artful Dodge
• 4x Breaking / Entering
• 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 3x Maddening Cacophony
• 4x Mind Funeral

Instant (5)

• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Creature (15)

• 3x Consuming Aberration
• 4x Jace's Phantasm
• 4x Ruin Crab
• 4x Wight of Precinct Six

Land (22)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 9x Island
• 4x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 2x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 2x Witchbane Orb

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Fabricate

Instant (6)

• 3x Extirpate
• 3x Surgical Extraction

Creature (2)

• 2x Silent Arbiter

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Smother

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Duress
• 1x Haunting Echoes
• 1x Killing Wave

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List of all MTG's mill cards

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Mainly description
The mainly idea is to build a mill deck able to win fast, very difficoult for any mill deck. Usually the biggest problem of mill decks is that they are slow, very slow. So my deck bases its strategy on the benefits of mill, using easy but strong combos. There are many chances that I'm 5-20 during a turn and winning 5-0 the next turn: this can be possible using Consuming Aberration and Artful Dodge (who has an awesome flashback ability), but if I can't draw Consuming Aberration , Wight of Precinct Six is very useful, and cand do both defense and attack. My deck exploits Visions of Beyond and Thought Scour ability in order to give me an awesome draw advantage, useful in every situation. That's why I put on many mill cards (16 + Thought Scour ), Visions of Beyond will increase my chances to draw a Consuming Aberration or a Wight of Precinct Six .Sideboard is useful in order to defense me with dangerous decks, like burns,tokens, and Eldrazi: 4x Extirpate and 4x Surgical Extraction are very useful with mill decks.

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How it works
	Early turns During the match How I win Order and no Luck Mill me Back to the menu

Early turns: I've got many ways to play at the beginning of the match: the best one is to play on the first turn a Jace's Phantasm , and in the second one one Glimpse the Unthinkable . Another great chance is to combo Breaking and Hedron Crab and a Jace's Phantasm . If I'm not lucky I will probably draw many milling source, so I can strengthen Visions of Beyond and be sure to draw an useful creature while milling with Glimpse the Unthinkable and/or Mind Funeral . Another nice creature that I can cast during early turns is Hedron Crab : if I've got 2 on the battlefield in the 2nd 3rd turn I can mill 6 card per turn.

During the match: If I'm not luck and I can't draw a Jace's Phantasm , Wight of Precinct Six will defense me this way, because when I cast it (2-3rd turn) I'm almost sure it is a 3/3 - 4/4, a very nice defense (it can do almost Fog Bank 's work). Visions of Beyond helps me very much in order to find what I need, and I'm sure I will have my milling source during early turns. If during my first match I see that I can't defense myself there are many useful card in the sideboard. The most important spell during 4th-8th turns is vision of beyond. Anyway, I can lose something like 5-6 point, I can easilly recover my opponent in subsequent rounds.
During the defense I can mill my opponent's deck using Breaking , Maddening Cacophony , Glimpse the Unthinkable and mostly with Mind Funeral . But if I can play one Jace's Phantasm and I have in my hand Glimpse the Unthinkable / Breaking - Ruin Crab s that is perfect, I potentially have a 5/5 flying that can attack during turn 2.


How I win: My mill deck aims to win in less than 7/8 turns if I haven't many dangers. Usually the best way to win is to use Consuming Aberration and Artful Dodge , but I can win also using Wight of Precinct Six and Artful Dodge 's flashback. If I've got the creature but no Artful Dodge I can... mill myself!, in order to use the flashback ability.
Anyway, my deck has many and many mill cards (16 powerful sorceries and 4 Hedron Crab ), I can win in 7-8 turns with my milling sources.
But there is also an opponent: so, if no one can win the match I defend myself using Silent Arbiter and my "mill" counters,(very useful Extirpate this way) waiting for (or milling for) Artful Dodge and Consuming Aberration . So i can wait my milling source.

"Order and no luck": Absolutely the most important thing in mill deck: there are too many strong/medium cards, and combine them together is very very very difficoult. It is impossible think to defeat the opponent just using "mill sources", you have to think to some alternatives: you can do that with a lot of order, and you must not need luck in order to win , every hand should be the ideal hand. For example, I can't combine Avatar of Woe in this kind of milling deck, because I can't be sure that the opponent will have more than ten creatures in his deck. Absolutely necessary think to that.


"Mill myself": In this deck I can also use an "automill" strategy, as Golgari's decks do: this is useful in order to draw Artful Dodge (considering that I'm pretty sure to have a Wight of Precinct Six or a Consuming Aberration in my hand or in the battlefield), then use its flashback ability. At the moment there are two cards that don't allow me to mill myself: one is Mind Funeral , the other one is Mind Sculpt ( Glimpse the Unthinkable , Hedron Crab s and Breaking can do that); Mind Funeral is unreplacable.

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The sideboard

• Undead and Goglari like decks - Grafdigger's cage
• Tokens and Selesnya like decks - Silent arbiter
• Dangerous spells: extirpate and surgical extraction
• Fabricate choice
• Burn and discarding decks - Witchbane orb
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"Undead" decks and similar - Grafdigger's cage: This kind of milling deck is very disadvantaged with undead or golgari decks, for example the ability unearth is very dangerous, as creatures like Gravecrawler are. With these deck I must mill not so much (15 cards maximum) until I draw it. So Grafdigger's Cage can help me this way, I've got three in my sideboard (50% of chances to draw it during fifth turn): I can replace 2x Thought Scour , 1x Consuming Aberration , one Island . So:

In: 2x Grafdigger's Cage and 2x Fabricate
Out: 1x Island , 2x Thought Scour , 1x Consuming Aberration


"Tokens" decks - Silent arbiter : Usually a mill deck can't cast many creatures, because it should mill the deck and eventually, use the milled cards in order to strengthen a creature, but what if there are 20 tokens? Jace's Phantasm s and Wight of Precinct Six can block powerful creatures, but they can't block 20 creatures: so, I can add 3/4 Silent Arbiter . My opponent should find difficoult attack me with one creature per turn, and I can get time in order to mill my opponent. An example is the "Selesnya's tokens" decks, who can use permanent like Honden of Life's Web or Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 's "populate" ability. Another bad card for my deck is Army of the Damned . Some similar cards that I'm considering are Ensnaring Bridge , Norn's Annex is no longer consider. So:

In: 2x Silent Arbiter and 2x Fabricate
Out: 2x Thought Scour , 2x Mind Sculpt


Dangerous spells: extirpate and surgical extraction Extirpate and Surgical Extraction are absolutely awesome (and expansive) in a mill deck. An awesome combo is, during turn 2, to have 2x Hedron Crab s, play a swamp and cast Surgical Extraction . With just two points I potentially can exile a very dangerous card. And, if I put on 4x Surgical Extraction and 3x Extirpate I have lot of chances to draw it when I need it. We can say the same about combo Extirpate with any other mill source, very powerful! The biggest problem is how to replace 7 cards... it generally changes from match to match. Extirpate and Surgical Extraction are awesome with eldrazi/affinity decks, if I can exile Urza's Mine / Urza's Tower or something like Mycosynth Lattice my opponent can't play its game!


Fabricate choice 4x Silent Arbiter , 4x Witchbane Orb , 4x Grafdigger's Cage = 12 sideboard cards. So I decided to put on my sideboard 2x Fabricate , useful with both these cards. I know that this choice slows my strategy, but it is a pondered choice: this method allow me to free 4 cards in my sideboard, useful in order to put 4x Surgical Extraction .


"Burn" and "discarding" decks - Witchbane orb
Another problem of mill decks is that they are toooo slow, like slowpoke. This deck should bo quick enough in order to maintain the draw in the early turns with a lot of deck, but there are some burns that are very strong and quick, and it is very arduous for a mill deck to win. We can say the same for descarding spells. So I can put on 3x Witchbane Orb s (as usually, 50% of chances to draw it during 5th turn), who helps me to maintain the draw while milling the opponent deck. Some examples of strengh and "too" dangerous spells are Megrim and Lightning Bolt , but also Bonfire of the Damned . So:

In: 2x Witchbane Orb 2x Fabricate
Out: 1x Hedron Crab , 1x Artful Dodge , 1x Mind Sculpt , 1x Swamp

 

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What I'm searching/waiting for

"Stronger counters":

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Counters. I'm not satisfied by my counters, there is not a counter that done both Doom Blade and Go for the Throat 's effects except for Death's Approach (who doesn't make me safety) and Murder (who costs too much mana/swamps in early turns): the best things could be something like Abrupt Decay , with black/blue colors. I'm waiting for something like that in future sets, but if there are some similar spells tell me! I'm considering also Royal Assassin . Another nice counter is Arcane Denial , if Wizards of the coast will reprint that I'll put that in my deck. It's drawing ability is awesome.

 

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List of all mill cards from MTG

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Note: cards with (X) aren't legal in modern;
The list is currently updated at Kaldheim(05/02/2021)

Creatures	Istant/sorceries	Enchantments/Artifacts/Lands	Lands
PLANESWALKER Ashiok, Dream Render Ashiok, Nightmare Muse Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver Jace, Architect of Thought Jace Beleren Jace, Memory Adept Jace, the Mind Sculptor (X) Jace, Unraveler of Secrets Jace, Wielder of Mysteries Liliana Vess Nicol Bolas, the Arisen Tamiyo, the Moon Sage MILL CREATURES Ambassador Laquatus Balustrade Spy Belltower Sphinx Cathartic Adept Chancellor of the Spires Circu, Dimir Lobotomist Consuming Aberration Crosstown Courier Culling Drone Dimensional Infiltrator Dominator Drone Doomsday Specter (X) Doorkeeper Draugr Thought-Thief Dreamborn Muse Drowner Initiate Duskmantle Guildmage Enigma Eidolon Fallen Shinobi Fathom Feeder Fleet Swallower Geth, Lord of the Vault Geralf's Mindcrusher Grimoire Thief Guiltfeeder (X) Gyruda, Doom of Depths Halimar Excavator Hedron Crab Jace's Mindseeker Koma's Faithful Laboratory Brute Lich Lord of Unx Lord of the Void Lurking Informant Manic Scribe Merfolk Mesmerist Merfolk Secretkeeper Merfolk Windrobber Mindeye Drake Mindreaver Mindscour Dragon Mindshrieker Minister of Inquiry Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker Necromaster Dragon Nemesis of Reason Nightveil Specter Nimana Skydancer Oblivion Sower Oona, Queen of the Fae Persistent Petitioners Phenax, God of Deception Raven Guild Master (X) Reef Pirates Renegade Reaper Returned Centaur Returned Reveler Riddlekeeper (X) Rotcrown Ghoul Ruin Crab Sage's Row Denizen Scalpelexis Screeching Silcaw Seer of the Last Tomorrow Selhoff Occultist Sewer Nemesis Shadow Stinger Shriekgeist Sibsig Host Sire of Stagnation Siren of the Silent Song Sludge Crawler Soaring Thought-Thief Soratami Mindsweeper Sphinx Mindbreaker Stern Mentor Szadek, Lord of Secrets Thassa's Devourer Thieves' Guild Enforcer Thief of Sanity Thought Harvester Towering-Wave Mystic Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hun Undead Alchemist Undercity Informer Vedalken Entrancer Wall of Lost Thoughts USING MILL CREATURES Agent of Erebos Apocalypse Demon Avatar of Woe Dimir Doppelganger Dread Defiler Grave Strength Gurmag Angler Havengul Lich Hypnotic Sprite Jace's Phantasm Laboratory Maniac Lazav, Dimir Mastermind Lazav, the Multifarious Mortivore Necropolis Fiend Nighthawk Scavenger Nighthowler Nimana Skitter-Sneak Snapcaster Mage Talrand, Sky Summoner Tombstalker Wight of Precinct Six Wrexial, the Risen Deep Zareth San, the Trickster USEFUL CREATURES Archfiend of Depravity Crab Umbra Cunning Nightbonder Dark Confidant Dakra Mystic Deathbringer Regent Deathrite Shaman (X) Dimir Infiltrator Disciple of Deceit Dread Emrakul, the Promised End Evil Twin Fog Bank Ghastlord of Fugue Haunter of Nightveil House Guildmage Invisible Stalker Kaervek, the Spiteful Living Lore Meletis Charlatan Nihilith Nivmagus Elemental Ravenous Chupacabra Realmwright Sea Gate Stormcaller Silent Arbiter Silumgar Assassin Silumgar, the Drifting Death Shimian Specter Spellskite Stitcher's Supplier Stratus Dancer Sultai Skullkeeper Swans of Bryn Argoll Tymaret, Chosen from Death Tree of Perdition Tormented Soul Voracious Greatshark	MILL ISTANTS/SORCERIES Archive Trap Brain Freeze (X) Breaking / Entering Bond of Insight Chill of Foreboding Coerced Confession Compelling Argument Dampen Thought Destroy the Evidence Didn't Say Please Dimir Charm Dimir Machinations Dreadwaters Dream Twist Enter the God-Eternals Epiphany at the Drownyard Fascination Fleeting Memories Glimpse the Unthinkable Grisly Spectacle Horrifying Revelation Increasing Confusion Induce Paranoia Maddening Cacophony Memory Sluice Mind Drain Mind Funeral Mind Grind Mind Sculpt Paranoid Delusions Pilfered Plans Psychic Drain Psychic Spiral Sanity Grinding Shared Trauma Startled Awake   Stream of Thought Sweet Oblivion Thought Collapse Thought Scour Tome Scour Traumatize Tunnel Vision Vessel of Paramnesia Vicious Rumors Vision Charm (X) USEFUL ISTANTS/SORCERIES Aid the Fallen Aqueous Form Artful Dodge Beacon of Unrest Blood Beckoning Bond of Revival Boneyard Parley Brainstorm (X) Bump in the Night Cling to Dust Command the Dreadhorde Crypt Incursion Dark Ritual (X) Demonic Tutor (X) Dig Through Time Divination Dispossess Duress Endless Obedience Evacuation Essence Harvest Fabricate Fated Return Flood of Recollection Font of Return Funeral Rites Ghastly Conscription Ghostform Gravepurge Haunting Echoes Hurkyl's Recall Lost Legacy Lullmage's Domination Ideas Unbound Increasing Ambition Into the Story Inquisition of Kozilek Learn from the Past March of the Drowned Mausoleum Secrets Memory Plunder Mission Briefing Narset's Reversal No Escape Peer into the Abyss Pieces of the Puzzle Polymorphist's Jest Ponder (X) Price of Betrayal Pull from the Deep Reap Intellect Rise from the Grave Rise from the Tides Scarab Feast Serum Visions Sleep Temporal Mastery Temporal Trespass Thassa's Bounty Thought Distortion Thoughtseize Twincast Turn / Burn Turn to Frog Savor the Moment Unmoored Ego Visions of Beyond Whispering Madness COUNTER LIKE Abstruse Interference Admiral's Order Annul Anticognition Arcane Denial (X) Archmage's Charm Asphyxiate Bloodchief's Thirst Bone to Ash Boomerang Broken Concentration Cancel Censor Ceremonious Rejection Certain Death Complete Disregard Concerted Defense Condescend Confirm Suspicions Consign to the Pit Contradict Countermand Counterspell (X) Countersquall Countervailing Winds Convolute Crush Dissent Cyclonic Rift Damnation Dark Betrayal Darkness Dead Drop Deadly Alliance Deadly Visit Defeat Demon's Grasp Deny Existence Deny the Divine Deprive Devastation Tide Devious Cover-Up Devour Flesh Diplomacy of the Wastes Disallow Disdainful Stroke Dismember Dispel Dissolve Doom Blade Dream Fracture Eat to Extinction Easy Prey Echoing Truth Eliminate Engulf the Shore Essence Capture Essence Scatter Eviscerate Exclude Extinction Event Essence Scatter Extinguish All Hope Extirpate Failed Inspection Fatal Push Feast of Dreams Feed the Serpent Feed the Swarm Final Death Final Reward Flesh to Dust Flusterstorm Force of Negation Force of Dispair Force of Will (X) Foul Renewal Gainsay Gild Go for the Throat Grasp of Darkness Grotesque Demise Hero's Downfall Horribly Awry Hornswoggle Impale Inscription of Ruin Insidious Will Into the Roil In Garruk's Wake Invasive Surgery Keep Safe Killing Wave Last Word Liliana's Defeat Lofty Denial Lookout's Dispersal Mana Drain (X) Mana Leak Mental Misstep (X) Mindbreak Trap Miscast Muddle the Mixture Murder Murderous Compulsion Mutual Destruction Mythos of Nethroi Mutilate Necrotic Wound Negate Neutralize Neutralizing Blast Never / Return Nightmarish End Oblivion Strike Overwhelming Denial Quench Polymorphist's Jest Price of Fame Psychic Strike Reach of Shadows Reaver Ambush Remand Rakshasa's Disdain Revolutionary Rebuff Ritual of Soot Ruinous Path Sadistic Sacrament Saw It Coming Scatter to the Winds Scour from Existence Shadows' Verdict Sinister Sabotage Slaughter Pact Smother Spell Shrivel Spell Snare Spell Snuff Spiteful Blow Statute of Denial Stymied Hopes Sublime Epiphany Summary Dismissal Surgical Extraction Supreme Will Swan Song Tale's End Terror Thassa's Intervention Tyrant's Scorn Tragic Slip Turn Aside Perplex Syncopate Undermine Unsummon Ultimate Price Vanquish the Weak Vapor Snag Victim of Night Void Shatter Vraska's Contempt Walk the Plank Weigh Down Whirlwind Denial	MILL ENCHANTMENTS/ARTIFACTS Altar of the Brood Altar of Dementia Cast Through Time Chronic Flooding Codex Shredder Curse of the Bloody Tome Dead Man's Chest Decimator Web Dimir Cluestone Drowned Secrets Evanescent Intellect Fraying Sanity Folio of Fancies Grimoire of the Dead Grindstone (X) Grindclock Hair-Strung Koto Hedonist's Trove Jace's Erasure Keening Stone King Narfi's Betrayal Lunar Force Memory Erosion Mesmeric Orb Mindcrank Mind's Dilation Millstone Patient Rebuilding Psychic Corrosion Relic Golem Sands of Delirium Shriekhorn Sword of Body and Mind Teferi's Tutelage Tower of Murmurs Trepanation Blade Whetstone (X) Whetwheel Worry Beads (X) USEFUL ENCHANTMENTS/ARTIFACTS Bloodchief Ascension Bontu's Last Reckoning Circle of Affliction Crook of Condemnation Curiosity Debtors' Knell Dimir Keyrune Dimir Signet Dire Undercurrents Dissipation Field Elspeth's Nightmare Ensnaring Bridge Forced Fruition Frozen Aether Grafdigger's Cage Hissing Miasma Howling Mine Isochron Scepter Illness in the Ranks Illusionist's Bracers Leyline of the Void Mirror Mockery Mirror Sheen Mistvein Borderpost Monastery Siege Mortal Combat Nevinyrral's Disk Norn's Annex Pithing Needle Pyxis of Pandemonium Propaganda (X) Profane Memento Quietus Spike Relic of Progenitus Rhystic Study (X) Runechanter's Pike Silent Gravestone Silumgar Monument Slow Motion (X) Soul Ransom Soul-Guide Lantern Stain the Mind Talisman of Dominance Telepathy The Omenkeel Thrumming Stone Tormod's Crypt Torpor Orb Virulent Plague Weathered Runestone Witchbane Orb Wound Reflection	Barren Moor (X) Bojuka Bog Cephalid Coliseum Choked Estuary Creeping Tar Pit Darkslick Shores Darkwater Catacombs Dimir Aqueduct Dimir Guildgate Dismal Backwater Dreadship Reef Drowned Catacomb Duskmantle, House of Shadow Evolving Wilds Fetid Pools Frost Marsh Ghost Quarter Halimar Depths Ice Tunnel Ipnu Rivulet Jwar Isle Refuge Lonely Sandbar (X) Mana Confluence Magosi, the Waterveil Mortuary Mire Nephalia Drownyard Oboro, Palace in the Clouds Polluted Delta Port of Karfell River of Tears Rootwater Depths (X) Salt Marsh Secluded Glen Shelldock Isle Soaring Seacliff Submerged Boneyard sunken hallow Sunken Ruins Svyelunite Temple (X) Temple of Deceit Terramorphic Expanse Tainted Isle Underground River Underground Sea (X) Waterveil Cavern Watery Grave

Thanks to: jochn11, gufymike, Onyx_Mage, Soullarva, Tinselteeth, Renzo28, SwampHippie, saranghae314

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I need 2 kind of helps!: 1)The deck is in "prototype": There are many cards in maybeboard that I would like to put in my sideboard or in my deck, butmany attemps are need in order to decide, so I wait for your suggestions!! Comments are welcome! 2) As you probably see, I'm not english, and my writing isn't perfect so, if you want, tall me what is something wrong in my description, and I will correct it!. Thanks you guys, comments are welcome.

Top Ranked	Achieved #22 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	27 - 13 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.55
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