Amazing Mill & Self Mill $20

by JonahMargolis on 09 January 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Instants (4)


Artifacts (10)


Enchantments (4)


Land (20)

Sideboard (120 cards)

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Deck Description

Jace's Archivist and Windfall go ultimate with Library of Leng.
Then add Jace's Erasure. And the fun doubles.
Add in Minds Aglow & Prosperity and it is too much fun.
And after your opponent has discarded all those cards Dream Salvage

Ivory Tower will keep you alive forever.
Laboratory Maniac will win you the game against other mills or any anti mill decks.
Turbulent Dreams will wipe out anything your opponent plays (discarding a few cards is cheap considering how many you will have.)

Black Vise is a great alternative win con. Your opponent will begin most of their turns with tons of cards.

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<a href="http://www.mtgvault.com/jonahmargolis/decks/amazing-mill-self-mill-20/">Mill & Self Mill $20</a>
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How to Play

No Maximum hand size with Library of Leng and you discard to your own library if you wish. This allows you to control the order of your next few draws ;)
Step 1) Draw tons of cards with Minds Aglow & Prosperity
Step 2) Each player discards their hands and draws more cards with Jace's Archivist & Windfall (after your opponent discards all their cards Dream Salvage) You dont have to discard to graveyard if you have Library of Leng
Step 3) Whenever your opponent gets anything dangerous on the battlefield, use Turbulent Dreams, to remove all his cards on the battle field. Then repeat step two to force your opponent to discard those dangerous cards.

Use the enchantment Jace's Erasure to double the speed of the mill.

Ivory Tower will keep you alive forever.
Laboratory Maniac will win you the game against other mills or any anti mill decks.

With so many cards in your hand, you have tons of options on what to play and you can guarantee you have a land to play each turn, you feel like you are in complete control of the game.

**Added 2 Reliquary Tower Lands. Lands are difficult to remove so it is a good back up incase your opponent removes the key to this deck Library of Leng**

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Self Mill
  • Fast
  • Fun

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Amazing Mill & Self Mill $20

Super fast and effective.

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Posted 09 January 2014 at 19:05

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Careful that you don't mistake your hand for your library :P

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 00:11

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This strongly reminds me of my mill deck, grossly expensive but much the same concept as yours, which I might have to add somehow Ivory Tower and Laboratory Maniac:
http://www.mtgvault.com/urinduil/decks/words-of-waste/

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 00:17

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Correction, that was how I original had my deck working, then I made it more direct mill, but regardless the idea of self mill and uber milling opponent through that- priceless!

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 00:32

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I didn't know if the idea would work when I first started building the deck, then I found Turbulent Dreams which allowed me to wipe my all my opponents cards off the board and Ivory Tower which generates tons of life. The combo made me almost invincible.

Then I realized Library of Leng could allow me to have no maximum hand size and also put my discarded cards back into my library in any order I choose, right before I drew them again. It means I would always have the hand I wanted to have.

I added a few side board cards to swap for Laboratory Maniac incase I dont want to self mill.

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 01:24

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Don't forget about venser's journal. And a little surprise with sickening dreams.

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 02:20

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I don't like, Sickining dreams for this deck, the problem is my creatures are essential and that card would destroy them. Turbulent Dreams leaves my creatures unharmed. I have been thinking of adding in Megrim though. It will kill off my opponent really fast since they will be discarding so many cards, it only needs 10 cards discarded to kill them. Within 1 or 2 turns of playing megrim my opponent will be dead. But they may have been milled by that time already, this deck mills so fast, (10 cards in my hand, 2 Jace's Archivist, and 1 Jace's Erasure and its a 40 cards milled in on turn 4 or 5, and in a another Jace's Archivist, Jace's Erasure, or windfall and its a 80 card milled on turn 5). Originally I had some high mana cards, but i removed them since the game would never go that long.

I am thinking about swapping either Minds Aglow or Prosperity for Vision Skeins it is a little less versatile but can speed up the game slightly.

Maybe I should remove 1 Laboratory Maniac and swap it for 1 Megrim for versatility. What do you think?

I swapped 2 Laboratory Maniac for 2 Black Vise, its only 1 mana. It is really powerful since so many of my cards result in my opponent starting their turn with tons of cards in their hand. (Jace's Archivist, Windfall, Minds Aglow, Prosperity, and Turbulent Dreams)

Sword of War and Peace is an amazing card against red or white, but without an unblockable creature I wouldnt play it against other colors.

vesner's journal is a little expensive an 5 mana. I can put down a Spellbook and an Ivory Tower for only 1 mana. But I think between the two Reliquary Tower and four Library of Leng, I should have no problem keeping the unlimited hand size. and with 4 ivory towers I should be gaining tons of life. I can actually get multiple ivory towers on the battlefield easily and early since I am drawing so many cards.

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 18:20

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I think your changes really work.

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 19:35

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Hmm it looks like Mindbreak Trap doesn't do what I thought it did. Permanents are no longer spells once they resolve, so it can't exile them.

It only works against things like storm and cascade decks to exile all their spells on the stack. Also good against twin cast. But most decks wont be having a lot of unresolved spells on the stack at the same time.

Against most decks all It does is give me a 0 mana counter to my opponents third spell of the turn. I am thinking it is more sideboard material. I think Archive Trap, Whiplash Trap or Lethargy Trap will work better.

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 20:10

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Oh my god, I can believe I forgot Cackling Counterpart, Cryptoplasm and Phantasmal Image. I can make more Jace's Archivist and really speed things up.

This is gonna be hard to fit in. So little space.

what do you guys think swap Prosperity for Phantasmal Image, i would hate to lose a draw card?
Or maybe black vise or Laboratory Maniac for Phantasmal Image? I dont really need two alternate win cons?

Since I have so many draws and no maximum hand size I could break the cardinal rule and go over 60 cards :O

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Posted 10 January 2014 at 20:48

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Why windfall? you have jace for that ability

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Posted 24 January 2014 at 05:09

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The deck revolves around drawing and discarding cards. Windfall will cause my opponent to draw more cards than any other spell. It is the same effect as Jace, but it is still so powerful I couldn't leave it out. You can never have to many draw spells in a mill deck.

You might be better off with a cloning spell, to clone Jace.

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Posted 24 January 2014 at 17:55

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Minds Aglow & Prosperity are also the same. But it is so good in this deck it doesn't matter.

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Posted 24 January 2014 at 18:01

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