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Basically the idea is pretty obvious: clear out everyone's library.Updates:6/20-4 Consuming Aberration+4 Necromaster Dragon6/19swapped out 2 islands and swamps for 4 evolving wilds for more hedron crab triggers.Removed 4 invisible stalker, added 4 Consuming Aberration. More defense based on the deck's primary objective.Removed 3 Ponder, added 3 Serums Visions to make deck modern legal.
Typically I can get the ball rolling with Hedron Crabs, then I basically try to mill my opponents before they can kill me. Elixir of Immortality helps with a little life back plus undoing some self-mill.
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I also have this other UB mill http://www.mtgvault.com/baynne720/decks/damage-mill/Looking to either find a good balance with the 2 or make them each better within their own rights.
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When you want to mill with Hedron Crab I would recommend using not only 3 in the deck but 4. Also Oboro, Palace in the Clouds, or some more affordable searchlands (Terramorphic Expanse, Evolving Wilds) ,could be an idea to activate it more often. Jace's Erasure could be replaced with Sphinx's Tutelage. Costs {1} more mana to play but has the chance of milling much more per turn. If you're going for the draw/ mill variant you should splash black or red to get access to things like Magmatic Insight or Dark Deal. Ponder could be replaced with Serum Visions as this would make the deck modern legal. Even if you're playing it at the kitchen table you might want to use it on a local tournament later and can't...because of 1 card. Elixir of Immortality could be sideboarded and replaced with either some control-spells like Rune-Snag, Mana Leak, Unsummon or some more creatures that help you to survive. The only thing that really doesn't fit in here for me is Invisible Stalker. You don't benefit from attacking and it's just a bad blocker. GreetingsMuktol
Just to add on to Muktol's suggestions, I'm not a fan of Mind Grind. Mind Funeral is far superior.
@Muktol - solid suggestions. Dark deal looks interesting even if only to make use of the swamps. And I think at one point I had more creatures for damage that got cycled out for more utility. Thanks for the suggestions.@DedWards - my comic shop (the only one in town) didn't have those when I tried to get them :(
Hard luck. Still, replace them at your earliest convenience. You won't be sorry.
Would it be worth while to add Evanescent Intellect to the deck to attach to the crabs? The logic behind that being I would never attack with them, so I might as well pump up how much they mill.
side question: is there a way to link the cards? Nothing I have tried is working ([noparse], [card] being the only 2 I found/know).
Adding Evanescent Intellect is probably not a good idea. Firstly, there's way too few creatures to reliabley use it. Secondly, it paints an even bigger target for removal on the creatures in here, and you'll be down two cards for one removal spell. As for linking, we've had problems in the past with it, so the feature was removed. Although, I think they are working on reintroducing the links.
I put Consuming Aberration in place of the Invisible Stalkers for more both offense and defense.
I'm personally not a fan of Consuming Aberration. It costs way too much to not have an immediate effect. If you want something for offense and defense, you can do better. Jace's Phantasm is one such better option. Also, the crab should be 4x. It's just that good.
Working on it haha. I'll take another look after work today and see what other creature options would work also
I went ahead with Necromaster Dragon... I realize it is still costly, but it is a 3 for 1: blocker, blocker generator, and mill. Worth it IMO. Still working on actually obtaining Hedron Crab (comic shop had 0) and debating on at least sideboarding Elixirs and adding 3 Mind Sculpt.
you have to add Fraying Sanity when hour of devestation is released.(3b Enchantment - Aura, CurseEnchant PlayerAt the beginning of each end step, the enchanted player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the total number of cards put into that players graveyard this turn.)
I would replace the dragon with the new crab, as it's already slow at 5 mana and it has a hrad to trigger ability with a small payoff in terms of mill
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Yeah, if you didn't notice it before posting, it's no longer possible to know.I think I've answered a lot of these old upvoted posts before I checked the date.I've begun to look at the username to take a look at other comments to see if the owner is alive and kicking.