Good mill cards for a Dimir Deck
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Posted on Sept. 2, 2013, 10:28 a.m. by douphipp455
I already have Hedron Crab and Traumatize on my list-to-buy. Any advice? my deck is also lacking in powerful creatures, so I could use some help there too. Dimir (Slightly modded)
douphipp455 says... #4
I would use Glimpse the Unthinkable but its really expensive.
September 2, 2013 11:08 a.m.
I wouldn't say Traumatize is a 'good' mill card. Also, Hedron Crab isn't standard legal. Cards like Breaking , Mind Grind , and Mind Sculpt are good milling cards. Good creatures include Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker , Jace's Phantasm , and Wight of Precinct Six .
September 2, 2013 11:13 a.m.
Tome Scour , Psychic Spiral , Jace, Memory Adept , Nemesis of Reason , Thought Scour , Codex Shredder
September 2, 2013 11:14 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #9
@ENEyman: Nobody ever mentioned this being a Standard deck.
@douphipp455: Traumatize is mediocre as a mill card. By the time you can even cast it, its efficacy has drastically decreased (at least, it will have if your deck is doing what it's supposed to be doing in the first half of the game).
Also, a mill deck doesn't need powerful creatures in the traditional sense. If you're going mill, go mill. Don't split mill with combat. Cards like Jace's Phantasm are terrible in mill because they don't actually help you mill.
September 2, 2013 4:53 p.m.
@Epochalyptik, the deck linked in the first post is a standard deck. That's where I got standard from. And also, I have to disagree with you about leaving creatures out of mill. If you don't have a creature base, aggro decks will kill you turn 5 before you can mill out your opponent. Also, control decks will counter your mill spells if you're not putting pressure on them in another way. A turn 2 5/5 flyer is insanely good: good enough to race aggro decks. Mill decks that only run mill spells and have no alternate win condition are, for the most part, very unreliable.
September 2, 2013 5:01 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #11
@ENEyman: I didn't say you needed to leave creatures out of mill. I said you should avoid mixing combat with mill because the two aren't effective together. If you need defense, then use defense. Hedron Crab is an example of an ideal mill creature because it's cheap, effective, and can block if necessary.
Mill is a bad split-push strategy. It requires dedicated grinding to work properly. I'm not advocating that you can't have a backup strategy, but you need to be careful about how you implement such a strategy because it's very easy to lose focus and detract from the effectiveness of the deck.
the3rdH0kage says... #2
Glimpse the Unthinkable , Consumming Abberation , Breaking
September 2, 2013 10:37 a.m.