To Mill a Mockingbird

Commander / EDH Budget Combo Infinite Combo Mill UB (Dimir)

Bezter

Creature (27)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Contraband Kingpin
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Riptide Shapeshifter
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Trophy Mage

Artifact (13)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trepanation Blade
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Fascination
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Languish
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Ransack
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Rhystic Tutor
• 1x Shared Trauma
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Instant (5)

• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Spin into Myth
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Trickery Charm

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 17x Island
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (5)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x Telepathy

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Sideboard

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Navigator's Ruin
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Creature (3)

• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Tidewater Minion
• 1x Unstable Shapeshifter

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Energy Tap

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Coerced Confession
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Mind Funeral

Creature (2)

• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception

Instant (1)

• 1x Archive Trap

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"...dead voices shriek in an ever-increasing cacophony, rending the mind asunder."

There is something to mill that I really like. Aesthetically, the cards are awesome. The art on cards such as Fraying Sanity and Mind Grind have something to them that incites a feeling of dread and despair. A player's library is seen as a mage's mind, the memory of his spells and abilities. Mill is pretty much rotting the mage's mind to make him forget everything he knows.

Oona, Queen of the Fae is one of the best mill commanders out there. She exiles, she's a mana sink, and she creates token creatures. Any infinite mana combos and you've instantly won. Even if you play Oona and she gets killed, if you have endless mana, you can just keep playing her and mill everyone.
This is a casual and fun deck, by no means is it completely optimized for competitive play. There are a lot of fun combos and win cons in this deck, including infinite blink, infinite mill, and infinite mana. I discovered a few on my own, others I found around this site and elsewhere.

Combos, combos, and more combos!

The big one.

Mirran Spy + Retraction Helix + Ornithopter or Phyrexian Walker,

With Altar of the Brood = Infinite mill, win con.

With Consuming Aberration, possible infinite mill.

With Efficient Construction, infinite thopters.

With Contraband Kingpin, Infinite scrying.

With Trespasser's Curse, (Enchanting yourself) + Sanguine Bond. Weird win con. Gain and drain.

Mainly mill

Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator + Altar of the Brood = Infinite mana and infinite mill.

Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator + Sage's Row Denizen = Infinite mana and infinite mill.

Fleet Swallower + Keening Stone or Fraying Sanity. Kill someone.

Enter the Infinite + Jace's Erasure, Most likely mill everyone, or at least come close.

Tunnel Vision + Putting cards on the bottom of others' libraries and naming that card. Almost lethal mill, all they need to do is draw two cards. Spin into Myth, Ransack, Vessel of Endless Rest facilitate that.

Manaaaaaa

Pili-Pala + Grand Architect.

Necrotic Ooze + a Palladium Myr and Pili-Pala in the graveyard.

Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator.

Peregrine Drake + Ghostly Flicker + Archaeomancer or Mnemonic Wall.

Things to do with that infinite mana.

Infinite mana +

Oona, Queen of the Fae. Obviously. But if someone Nevermore or Gideon's Interventions Oona, there are backups.

Stroke of Genius. Draw and play all your cards! Add a Laboratory Maniac if you want to win that way.

Shared Trauma. Literally just kill everyone. But you survive as long as you do it on your turn. Cause everyone would hit their draw step and die before it gets back to you, and you'd win!

Prosperity, Fascination. Same thing. RIP. Either kill everyone by making them draw all their cards, or mill everyone with Fascination's other modal. Whichever is more fun. Probably mill everyone, and just like Shared Trauma, you'll still win cause everyone will die before you.

But why?

My past two decks, Frankly, my dear, I don't give a demon. and "Helmsmasher? I barely know her!" have been mardu aggro, so I wanted to try something new. I almost never play blue, but I've grown to like the card draw and library shenanigans blue has to offer.

Personally, I dislike playing against control/Counterspell decks. This deck runs very few counter spells. I want people to be able to play their cards, at least until I mill them out. Counter spells almost take out some of the fun for me. I want to play knowing I can play what I have in my hand.

Anyways, I gathered bunch of fun combos I wanted to play, put them together into this deck, found the right commander, and went with it!

Cuts to make this deck more budget

This deck runs around $100 at the moment, but I haven't spent that much on it.

Some cuts to lower the price would be:

Fetid Pools. Pulled it from a Amonkhet booster. Wouldn't have included it otherwise.

Phyrexian Metamorph. Got this guy from a trade with my friend.

Lab Maniac. Not the most important piece of this deck, so it could be a notable cut for more budget alternatives.

As Foretold. Another good pull from Amonkhet. Powerful card, not the most relevant though. I like it because if I have two combo pieces in my hand but not enough mana to play them both, As Foretold helps me get them out a little quicker.

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. Honestly, I just really love shapeshifters. Something about them makes me excited. Copy other creatures adds variety to the games. Lazav isn't the most key part to this deck either, but this deck is mainly for fun.

Total savings (at the time of writing, 12/12/2017) should be around $30. Obviously if you're mimicking this deck, you can cut whatever you want!

Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave a comment or an upvote if you like the deck!

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mill 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 5 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 26 - 2 Rares 23 - 3 Uncommons 19 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Thopter 1/1 C
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