Milling Like a Virgin (Budget)

by icchibi on 27 September 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)



Instants (4)

Planeswalkers (2)



Enchantments (6)


Land (20)

Sideboard (24 cards)


Sorceries (6)

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Deck Description

CRITICIZE ME! :D

As name of the deck suggests It's my first attemp so such style.
I based this deck on the Dream Puppets deck which is available to play at Magic: Duels of the Plainswalkers 2013. I had a blast using is and I decides to make one of my own.

As ususal I try to go for Modern Budgets Decks. :)
There are so many cards I could place on this deck but the cash is very limited. Some of these are on the Sideboard

Cheers!

How to Play

The main mechanics of the deck, on my prespetive:

- Jace's Endure works with Howling Mine and Jace Beleren;
- Memory Erosion, Tome Scour, Mind Sculpt, Memoty Sluice and Hedron Crab do the Milling most explosive milling (as do Jace with 10+ markers);
- Jace's Phamtasm and Isleback Spawn add some defence, along with Unsumon. Jace's Phantast is easy to cast as a 5/5 on this deck.
- Twincast is a cheap drop down as mostly of the milling spells. With 3 mana The player mills 14 cards. Archive Trap is great but expensive ($).

Cheers! :)

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Mill
  • Milling
  • Mono Blue
  • jace beleren
  • Budget

Deck at a Glance

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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 Milling Like a Virgin (Budget)

I would replace with some other mill card as it will be very hard to use that Conspire effect, and without it there are better mill cards.
You should also have something that allows you to mill your opponent when you don't have any handcards left, or only draw lands for some turns. A good option would be "Nephalia Drownyard", "Grindclock " or "Millstone".

Greeting
Muktol

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Posted 29 September 2016 at 06:32

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Hello Muktol. I appreciate your feedback!

I agree on the Memory Sluice issue but I thought milling 4 cards for 1 mana was cool plus the conspiricy is able to do so. I took the 2 out and grabeb the Millstone (great advice!).

I'm aiming for a budget modern. Do you know any more mill effective cards that arent as expensive as Archive Trap? (5€ each) Thought Scour is also expensive 1,20€ each when Memory Sluice is 0,50€.

Cheers!

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Posted 29 September 2016 at 09:19

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Some support and mill cards:
Augur of Bolas (0,25$/card); cc2; 1/3; When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand.
Chronic Flooding (0,25$/card); cc2; enchantment; Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. A little bit situational, especially when plaing against a ramp deck but can slow your opponents play.
Archaeomancer (0,25$/card); cc4; 1/2; When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Great to recycle a card already used.
Dream Twist (0,19$/card); cc1; cc2 flashback; Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If you run out of handcards this can at least mill something so that you don't have to sit and wait.
Breaking // Entering (0,70$/card); cc2 (forget about the Entering part); Target player puts the top eight cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Pilfered Plans (0,15$/card); cc3; Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw two cards. Mill a little bit and draw new ammunition.
Shriekhorn (0,18$/card); cc1; artifact; Shriekhorn mills 6 cards over 3 turns for 1 mana.
Increasing Confusion (1,49$/card, expensive but worth it) Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If Increasing Confusion was cast from a graveyard, that player puts twice that many cards into his or her graveyard instead. I would only play 2-3 of these.
Horrifying Revelation (0,15$/card); cc1; Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Combines control with a little mill.

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Posted 29 September 2016 at 18:10

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Thank you for the list!
When it comes to buy cards I dont think it will be a problem since I've got Howling Mine and the Jaces. But conserning the consistency on my deck's mill you were tottaly right. I replaced Memory Sluice for Increasing Confusion (cheap on my country 0,80€).
I did sympatize with Shriekhorn but not so sure If I can place it somewhere. Maybe replace Millstone for Srhiekhorn since I've got Sands of Delirium already?

Cheers and thanks you!

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Posted 30 September 2016 at 11:05

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I would do some testgames and see how the deck behaves. If you feel that you need the mana you can replace Millstone with Shriekhorn. If you feel that you need the (/more) consistent mill/turn keep the Stone.

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Posted 01 October 2016 at 08:30

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Will do. Just working on buying the cards.
Thanks a lot for your help!

An off topic situation: It's funny that MTGVault has posts about how the site is inactive but truth be told that I've posted the exactly same decks on tappedout.net and deckstats.net and I've recieved ZERO feedback!

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Posted 01 October 2016 at 13:34

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It's active enough but you'll have to get lucky that someone has you on the friend-list or your deck is seen by someone who cares about/ is willing to write something/ can help you with problems.

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Posted 01 October 2016 at 15:55

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