Creatures
4X
Mortivore
2X
Terravore
2X
Tarmogoyf
2X
Szadek, Lord of Secrets
3X
Ambassador Laquatus
3X
Drowner Initiate
2X
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Spells
4X Glimpse the
Unthinkable
4X Nettlevine Blight (though
I've been trying 4 Damnations instead)
3X
Twincast
3X Jace Beleren
2X
Gilded Lotus
3X
Psychic Drain
4X
Traumatize
Land
4X
Underground Sea
2X
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
4X
Vivid Grove
4X
Vivid Creek
4X
Vivid Marsh
3X swamps
3X islands
any suggestions and help would be absolutely greatly
appreciated
Thank you for all your great deck fixes and creations,
Mike
I've always been a fan of mill decks, lets see what I can do
to help
Firstly I think you can cut green from the deck. At the
moment its only supporting 4 cards for which you can find
replacements. In addition this will let you run less CIPT
(comes-into-play-tapped) lands. Running too many CIPT lands
really hurts your tempo and as such you should keep the
number to about 6 in most cases. While tarmogofy and
terravore are good cards, they don't really contribute to
what your deck is trying to do, mill your opponent.
-
I'd say definitely replace the nettlevine
blights
with damnation. In a deck like this you want to stall
for as much time as you can in order to mill your
opponent down. Firstly the nettlevine is simply too slow
coming out on turn 6. Not only that your opponent will
simply put it onto lands in most cases and continue
attacking you.
-
Gilded Lotus is a bit slow and you don't really have
anything to accelerate into.
-
The problem with mill decks is that you often lack
proper defenses. Luckily there are some cards that let
you do both. Vedalken Entrancer and Belltower Sphinx
both have quite toughness allowing you to block while
still milling away cards.
-
Broken Ambitions lets you keep threats off the board,
again while still milling away cards.
-
Mesmeric Orb can mill opponent very fast and for
a cheap cost
Those cover your mill options, in terms of other cards for
the deck I'd say run more creature destruction effects
(terror etc) in order to protect yourself while you mill
your opponent. Mortivore can function as a second route to
victory (say your opponent has a Gaea's Blessing) so I'd say
keep it.
Oona is a very good card, functioning again with both
milling and defense.
Other than that you seem to have a fairly good idea of how
to build a mill deck so good luck!
