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A competitive mill deck made to be played in tournaments.
Mill. Mill again. Then mill some more. Don't stop until your opponents library has been stripped completely away.
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Looks very valid, but also safe :D
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I have recently analysed a lot of milldecks, and found out that augur of bolas seems to be better than snapcaster mage when you participate at the largest tournaments (100+) while snapcaster mage shines at the smaller local tournaments. This might be something you want to exploit :D Here's a link to the site with mill enough to analyse. http://www.tcdecks.net/tipo.php?archetype=Mill&format=Modern Mike donini and frank bequet and two others really get top places with augur compared to all the snapcastering players!
Thanks for the tip! I'll add augur of bolas instead.
Just remember to switch it out when you are at a familiar meta. Augur is best for uncharted waters :D
Since your planning on playing in tournaments you will need enchantment hate- I run 3 erase. Any deck that can splash white will always bring in leyline of sanctity and most will mull down til they get it. I'd suggest dropping crypt incursion for ravenous trap, and thought scour and visions as a 50/50 play. And remember to always drop visions for leyline as a sb cause it will never give you 3 when leyline happens. here's what I run-http://www.mtgvault.com/trixster87/decks/turbo-mill/
It's possible that leyline of sanctity is not that dangerous in today's meta. When I got 4th place, at least 3 people sideboarded their leylines into main, but I still ended up getting there. The most fanatic uses 3 and they still need a bit of a luck to win with it. During the quarterfinals I actually layed out the statistics involved in front of my opponent so that he would have a better knowledge on wether or not to muligan, since at our game 2 I just plainly scooped when he layed out a leyline of sanctuary. He mulliganned twice and then kept a hand without leyline and won when I played out a surgical extraction too fast to remove the leylines. In retrospect I should have removed the wurmcoil engine that he reanimated! Anyways, the general solution to leylines is echoing truth if you play U/B like afleck.
Echoing truth only buys you one turn unless there's one in their graveyard that you can extract. And the leyline will render his deck down to mesmeric orb for mill.
The impact of the Leyline of sanctity is overrated! The design I played with and got a 4th place with had no way to deal with leyline at all, not even in the sideboard. I faced 3 players with leyline in their sideboard and only once did I have to scoop simply because it hit play at turn 0. http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/small-4thplace-modern-mill/ I was stopped by creatures rather than leyline at the final! If my design had had some mesmeric orbs I might not have decided to scoop at all :D There is one card that I fear these days, and it is monastery siege. mesmeric orb and hedron crab may bypass the monastery siege, but echoing truth wont work well against it, so I am starting to go back to older designs, favoring shriekhorn as the number 1, 1cc card. It can pass through monastery siege as well. I fear that merfolk decks will show the efficiency of monastery siege to the meta, as I am testing a lot of proxied modern tier 1 decks against a friend playing the siege. Leyline of sanctity is weak compared to that card.
I guess its the difference of our local metas ( I get to see: Twin, Infect, Tron, Merfolk, and Abzan every week)- I can handle a 2 extra to cast versus a no cast and backfiring landfalls. Monastery Siege will not last in modern for it fails the abrupt decay test which is why leyline gets used, Most will simply mull down til they get it or they have 3 or 4 cards to start with.
Abrupt decay can only target monastery siege if the opponent got 4 mana. Usually abrupt is used in aggro which always have a low number of lands, so before you get to 4 mana, they throw down monastery siege number 2 and your next goal will be 6 mana :D So far monastery siege is only seen in merfolk, but I count on seing it in more decks in the future. In tests where I used the burndecks against my friend monastery siege simply locks burn down. It protects ALL permanents against enemy activity and thus covers itself. The only weakness is that it only covers spells, which means that there will be a future loophole.
which is pretty likely as it can't be played til turn 3. Yeah they spent a turn dealing with it- but with leyline they likely can't deal with it at all since decay can only cmc 3>. Paying 2 extra is ok but there's a reason why leyline is 17 and siege is .50. ( that loophole is etb/ltb triggers or any ability really which is what makes leyline so great.)
It usually takes time for new cards to filter through into the meta, and monastery siege is rather new. We can take up this discussion in 4-5 month's time when it's been through the process. All I can say is that I have a lot of testdecks from modern, and since my friend started playing monastery siege (In a combo-deck of all things) he's started to win a lot more against our test field.
It usually takes time for new cards to filter through into the meta, and monastery siege is rather new. We can take up this discussion in 4-5 month's time when it's been through the process. All I can say is that I have a lot of testdecks from modern, and since my friend started playing monastery siege (In a combo-deck of all things) he's started to win a lot more against our test field. Monastery is very likely to change the meta once people "discover it".
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