Ideas for mill cards

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Posted on Aug. 12, 2012, 3:35 a.m. by miles123

I need some ideas for cards to use. I'm making it mono blue. The only real combo I have in it, as it stands, is card:Jace's Archivist and card:Jace's Erasure. Any help would be much appreciated.

Emrakool says... #2

Any particular format? Here's some good ones for mono blue...

Archive Trap

Dream Twist

Hedron Crab

Increasing Confusion

Memory Erosion

Mind Sculpt

Sands of Delirium

Thought Scour

Tome Scour

Traumatize

August 12, 2012 7:21 a.m.

hunter9000 says... #3

Cards like Howling Mine and Font of Mythos are good since they help you draw mill spells even faster, and they help reduce your opponent's library, but at the cost of giving them the cards.

August 12, 2012 11:43 a.m.

Vogie says... #4

Any of the cards emrakool suggested are good. If you're looking for combos, I'd say using Increasing Confusion , Sands of Delirium and ramp (either green landsearch, red manaburst or mono-blue with Locus lands like Cloudpost ). Another way of going this route is making a typical card-advantage-based blue control deck, but use card:Jace's Erasure and Curse of the Bloody Tome as a way to have a late-game Milling strategy without building a deck of low-power cards like Dream Twist or Mind Sculpt .

August 12, 2012 1:53 p.m.

HFSEvans says... #5

My girlfriend has made a monstrous mill deck using Undead Alchemist.

She uses Hedron Crab in early game, then uses Fog Bank and Jace's Phantasm as blockers.Plays the Alchemist and then hits you with as many cheap mill spells as possible. Tome Scour - Mind Sculp - Dream Twist = A LOT OF MILL ZOMBIES!!! and each one that gets through = MORE MILL ZOMBIES!!! it's a horrible experience.

August 12, 2012 2:19 p.m.

NDRue says... #6

Traumatize + Haunting Echoes .

Or you could go card:Painter's Servant + Grindstone .

In standard right now there's only Thought Scour , Dream Twist , Mind Sculpt , card:Jace's Erasure, Curse of the Bloody Tome , Increasing Confusion , Jace, Memory Adept , and Sands of Delirium .

For support, if you're going for X-style milling, there's Caged Sun for the boost in mana for standard format.

August 13, 2012 12:29 a.m.