Modern Mill

by TubaHero on 01 January 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (2)


Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

"You've activated my Trap Card!"

"What is this, Yu-Gi-Oh?"

'Nuff said.

How to Play

The best way to play the deck is to blast your opponent in the face with Archive Traps unexpectedly when they try to fetch a land. With Trapmaker's Snare, there are essentially 8 Archive Trap slots in the deck. If the deck hits 2 of them, it can usually seal the deal if it draws another mill card and stalls. After 3 Archive Traps it becomes easy to win. Deathrite Shaman is an important part of the deck: he is there to exile lands for mana ramp, creatures for life against aggro to bide more time, and instant and sorceries against any possible Flashback. He essentially just hoses graveyard based strategies in my mainboard. Since I'm filling my opponent's graveyard, Deathrite Shaman is a solid one mana creature that I can always play turn one with any fetch in my starting hand.

As for the sideboard, I am still testing it. The two extra Inquisition of Kozilek are very useful against Storm, Jund, and Urzatron (some of the more popular decks if I am not mistaken). The Ensnaring Bridges are for any aggro deck since they will be unlikely to side in artifact hate just for Mesmeric Orb. Krosan Grip is to shut down an Egg's combo (destroy their Lotus Bloom with Split Second). The Ravenous Traps and Surgical Extractions are for Urzatron, which run Emrakul and other such graveyard shuffling effects that would end the game for this deck. Mindbreak Trap is just another answer to Storm combo, although it could also be used against eggs as a free counterspell against their Second Sunrise/Faith's Reward if needed. If anyone has suggestions for the Sideboard please let me know! Overall, this deck has been super fun to play and it has been relatively effective online against some of the format's top decks.

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Archive Trap
  • Traps
  • Modern
  • Test

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Modern Mill

Interesting the green adds a neat twist. though Snapcaster Mage is vital and Serum Visions should be replaced with Visions of Beyond because everyone loves Ancestral Recall. Inquisition of Kozilek and Trapmaker's Snare don't belong here I'd consider running Removal. Like Smother and or Go for the Throat or even Dismember. Hope this Helps. take a look at mine i'll leave a link my deck beats Jund every time because the sideboard turns the deck into an aggro deck. http://www.mtgvault.com/manofwar51/decks/modern-mill-aggro/

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Posted 01 January 2013 at 23:03

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Needs either more counterspells or removal. I tried the sample hand 20 times and I only got a counterspell 10 times and out of those, I only got more than 1 counterspell 3 times. This deck dies to everything.

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Posted 01 May 2013 at 22:45

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