A Little of the Top!

by Mudada on 05 July 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (12 cards)

Instants (6)

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Deck Description

It's pretty basic. Simple mill spells, very low mana cost.

I know, I know. where are the counterspells? I should add some. This deck is still in the development stages.

Any and all comments/suggestions/critiques are welcomed!

How to Play

Just cast and mill away. The spells are very low to cast meaning you have a buildup to Brain Freeze as well. So for example you have 5 mana
U Tome scour (5)
UB Glimpse the Unthinkable (10)
1U Brain Freeze (3 for itself plus 3 for each spell played before it = 9)

Total Mill = 5 +10 + 9 = 24

It's pretty simple, but still in how you say, the... Beta stage of creation.

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Grind
  • Blue
  • Black
  • Breaking
  • Brain freeze
  • mind sculpt
  • Vision Charm
  • mind Funeral
  • tome scour
  • glimpse the unthinkable
  • Whispers of the Muse
  • Vintage
  • Legacy
  • Drowned Catacomb
  • Tainted Isle
  • Island
  • Swamp
  • Guiltfeeder
  • Nemesis of Reason
  • Ravenous Trap
  • Traumatize
  • Haunting Echoes
  • Archive Trap
  • Blue
  • Black
  • Mill
  • Grind
  • tome scour
  • mind sculpt
  • mind grind
  • mind Funeral
  • Breaking // Entering
  • glimpse the unthinkable
  • Howling Mine
  • Brain freeze
  • Vision Charm
  • Whispers of the Muse
  • Drowned Catacomb
  • Tainted Isle
  • Island
  • Swamp
  • Nemesis of Reason
  • Traumatize
  • Guiltfeeder
  • Maralen of the Mornsong
  • Ravenous Trap
  • Archive Trap

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for A Little of the Top!

No, you should not add counterspells. Instead click on my name and take a look at some of my designs.
(Or start using surgical extraction in your mainboard)

I would advise you to get rid of howling mine as it only mills 1 card each turn. Instead use jace's erasure which will still mill them for 1 each turn and without giving them a card to defeat you. Or you can upgrade and use mesmeric orb, which will really mill creaturedecks away.

Alternatively you can try something entirely new:
Remove those weakling mindgrinds (They are laughable with only 20 lands), Add mountain mana and the RB-cascade card that cascades cost 2, that way you have 16 ways of milling 7+ cards... This strategy demands that you get rid of all 1costs, so what do you use your turn 1 for? Use it to play shelldock isle...

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Posted 12 August 2013 at 12:26

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WOW, That's quite a tag-list on that deck.
What do you think of the new "only 4 tags" concept?
(Guess it's a downer)

Sorry about the disturbance.

I'm trying to establish a new trend in deckbuilding, and I'm inviting everyone I've come across to participate.

I hereby invite you to participate in a brand new trend in deckdesigning that might change the future of how to design decks.

Shortly told, there are two ways that new decktypes are made, the first is by designing something new, the second is by taking the best parts of two older decks, mix it together and you got a new decktype!!!

What I suggest is a turbo-version of mixing two different decktypes into a new one.

You simply split up existing designs into deckhalves (Called halfdecks) that are designed so that they keep as much of the origanal themes of a deck intact, and so that the half can be thrown together with almost any other halfdeck deigned in the future.

Splitting a deck up in two times 30 cards is not so easy as it sounds, so initially this trend will start out slowly, and if enough people adapt the idea it will probably explode into radical new decktypes made from decks designed with halfdecking in mind.

To get a better understanding of the concept you might need to take a look at the first 3 deckhalves I've made as examples. (Bear in mind that they were designed very roughly from memory)

I will improve these designs and add other deckhalves as fast as possible to start up the trend.

YOU, and everyone else that recieve this "spam" are welcome to start up your own version of this project, as it is intended to become everyones, and only by letting several minds work on it independently will it take on a better shape and spread out as a new deckbuilding tool.

Contact me at any time, with any questions you may have.

I only have one wish on how this new trend can be spread. If everyone involved tag their decks as halfdecks then the future halfdeck community may simply write halfdeck in the decksearching function to find what they are looking for!

The first half of a "death and taxes"-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-001/

The second half of a "death and taxes"-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-002/

The red half of a U/R delver-deck: (Only a sketch, not the real thing)
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/legacy-halfdeck-003/

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Posted 18 November 2013 at 12:55

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