Crab mill

by vermithrax on 27 September 2020

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Tags

  • Mill
  • Crab
  • Casual
  • Theme
  • Crustacean

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

041000

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Crab mill

I've heard of a charix - phenax crab mill.
Phenax god of deception let's you tap creature for a mill equal to their toughness, and charix is pretty tough ;)

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Posted 14 October 2020 at 04:39

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Agreed, Charix + Phenax is a brutal combination, but Phenax is severely lacking in large snappity claws, a rock hard exoskeleton, and weirdly mobile eyestalks, all of which are important features for a good Crustacean tribal deck ;)

Also, that means splashing black for a single card (and maybe Glimpse the unthinkable), plus i already have a dimir mill deck on here from a long time ago (Zombie Mill) :)

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 08:14

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You have the mana for it, but I see the idea.
Maybe we could make people start using the decktag theme, to warn others that it's a theme deck.
On the other hand, I'm really bad at noticing notations like that. I barge in before people give me a hint ;)

I think indestructible counts as a hard shell, but otherwise he's a hard sell on the theme ;)

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 15:00

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You make a reasonable point about indestructible being close to an exoskeleton, so for that i think he can fit into a sideboard at least ;)

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Posted 13 November 2020 at 07:58

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Is this site secretly a hub for mill players? I swear every time I check out some decks somebody has posted a new take on mill. +1

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 15:38

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Mill is very popular in modern at the moment, though most sites doesn't show the decklists for some odd reasons.
I've speculated if it's to manipulate prices, but can't put a finger on it.
Mtggoldfish lists lots of mill and lists it at 1.8% of the current meta.

We also have a troll that posts a lot of decks, and some of those might be mill, but I'm not certain if I'll blame him for an influx in mill :)

I'm a very focussed miller myself and very competitive at it, though my builds are currently being redesigned.
I test my own mill against an rw prison deck designed to take out mill.

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 17:54

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Could very well be market speculation, I knew a guy who used to manipulate data on mtgtop8. He slowed down the flow of information and manipulated data to pick up cards from new sets before people knew they were good. Arena mostly stopped his shenanigans, but he apparently made enough to live luxuriously in the states.

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 18:01

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Since mtgtop8 is one of the sites not posting mill decks someone is probably imitating him :)
The other site is tc decks.

I guess the temptation is too big.

The only thing I'm grieving is that most of the mill designs that do get to the top are mindlessly copied.
I've led a grudge war against visions of beyond since 2018, and noone has cut more than 1 from top builds for almost 3 years.

I saw your mill and liked it, but didn't comment because I was busy at that time.
I run deep analysis on individual cards by using paperstrips as a statistical computer so I have a lot of data on different mill cards. Search for the decktag: wdm mill guide to see a list of all the cards I've analysed.

I might test out other mill cards if I get interested in them, though it will take some solid arguments ;)

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Posted 12 November 2020 at 18:31

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You could add iceberg cancrix, and have all the islands become snow

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Posted 03 March 2021 at 00:48

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Why was it put in the sideboard, but you swapped out the islands?

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 04:07

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Yeah of course, i'm not sure why i didn't have that originally actually.... thanks haha

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 04:09

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haha just typed it into the wrong bar, you happened to see the deck half way through swapping it over

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 04:11

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"There are no mistakes" - Wise turtle

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 04:13

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whats the point of prismatic vista, cant you just substitute that for 4 islands or additional myriad landscapes?

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Posted 03 March 2021 at 06:18

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For more landfall

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 02:18

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It serves the same purpose as Fabled Passage, its not mana fixing, its double landfall triggers per turn.

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Posted 04 March 2021 at 04:01

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