New to Magic Mill deck

by Online on 19 March 2013

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Deck Description

make opponents discard

How to Play

Try to make them discard as much as possible and try to finish with consuming abirration and wright of pricinct six or poke with rogues and vampire nighthawks.

Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Blue
  • Black
  • poke
  • New
  • learning

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for New to Magic Mill deck

Hey man, welcome to magic! Here's a few tips on the game concerning this deck:

1) This deck is not discard. Discard is very specific function in the game: to put a card from a player's HAND into the graveyard. Discard is a keyword function in Magic, and examples of this can be seen in cards like Mind Rot and Purge the Profane.

2) The term you want is mill. Milling is the common name for placing cards from a player's LIBRARY into the graveyard. The name originates from the first "milling" card, Millstone. It hasn't been keyworded yet, so you wont see the term on cards. However, cards such as Mind Sculpt and Paranoid Delusions are milling cards, designed to reduce your opponent's library down to zero to take advantage of Magic's built-in secondary win condition: trying to draw from an empty library causes you to lose.

3) I don't know how competitively you play or plan to play, but i would seriously consider ditching the Brush with Death. It's not a great card with an expensive buyback cost for a meh effect, and its causing your deck to be illegal in many competitive forms. In short, only the last few sets of cards are legal in standard and Brush with Death was printed a long time ago.

4) Coerced Confession is an absolutely horrible card. 5 mana to mill 4 is pitiful (compare it to mind sculpt: 2 mana for 7 cards), and the card draw is incredibly variable and likely to net you nothing. Thats the best way to estimate a cards value, to compare it to cards with a similar effect at similar rarity. I would ditch them for more mind sculpts, it is a common and shouldnt be too hard to get your hands on.

That's all i really have for you! i hope i haven't sounded patronizing in this comment, im just trying to help. This looks like a very solid casual deck, and if this is your first deck i applaud you, i have seen a lot worse among experienced players in my playgroup.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 04:39

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ooo thanks! sorry for the mix up!! also idk what happened but id idnt mean to put brush with death in the deck i think on the autoselect i misclicked. again thanks for the tips! ill see if i can get ahold of more mind sculpts at the card store.

also i was thinking of putting a Jace memory adapt somewhere but idk what to replace. any suggestions?

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 04:49

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If you can get your hands on them, those jaces are incredible in a deck like this. The confessions really should go, and tbh the captains are not essentially as your only other zombie is the wight.

If youre putting in Jace, i would definitely ditch a removal spell for another guildmage. Activate the guildmages first ability twice, use jace's 0 ability once, GG.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 04:55

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yea ill make the confessions disappear when i can get get some replacements. i see that makes sense. sorry to sound like a major noob but when you say removal spell did you mean a milling card?

what's a good site to order cards from if i cant find in the shop?

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:01

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Channelfireball and Starcitygames are the two biggest mtg websites, and they sell cards online. The best course of action is to ask your local game store owner, theyll be well-versed in where to buy as its what they do, and most will be willing to track down/set aside a card for you if youre having trouble finding it.

Just to repeat Derago, if you have any questions just put them out there, we'll try to answer to the best of our ability.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:16

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i just saw this card called Dream Twist. would you think it's a good addition to my deck?

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:57

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i updated the deck!
http://www.mtgvault.com/online/decks/updated-mill-deck/

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Posted 04 April 2013 at 04:31

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Removal is when you use a card to destroy or exile something that you don't own. Things like artifacts, lands, enchantments, creatures.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:02

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thank you!

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:09

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No problem. If you have any more questions on lingo or such, just repost on here, and I"ll answer your questions!

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 05:12

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I updated my deck here!
http://www.mtgvault.com/online/decks/updated-mill-deck/

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Posted 04 April 2013 at 04:31

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Yes. Add dream twist. and more mind scupts. Maybe even consider Sands of Delirium, more mind scuplts, trepination blade, tormented souls, and Invisible Stalker.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:04

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omg those cards look so epic!!!! will consider it!

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:17

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Yep. And all are pretty cheap too.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:18

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yea dude thanks a lot!!! im like mind blown at these cards im seeing haha. ill will try and search for them at the card store sometime this week!

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:25

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Yeah, no problem. you could probably pick up playsets (4 of a card) for a total of like 5 bucks for all of them.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:26

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yea for most i can i think a couple of them are like $2 each on some sites

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 08:18

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A playset of Wight of Precinct Six and Jace's Phantasm would be great. Also look into the card Undying Wish. If you get consuming abberation with an undying wish attached, it's basically game.

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 06:38

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hmm can't find an undying wish card online

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 07:03

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Dying Wish is what he meant :)

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Posted 26 March 2013 at 10:05

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Would you guys think i should get Tome Scour instead of mind sculpt or have both 2 tome scour and 2 mid sculpt?

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Posted 31 March 2013 at 01:42

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