wickeddarkman

COUCH312:
Looks like a good build, but I think the hedron crab is sort of redundant! Also is there any reason why you do not use stuff like chrome mox? And finally, how do you get past phyrexian revoker? (I guess hedron crabs fine there?)

KNIGHTOFTHEHOKEYPOKEY:
I generally avoid cards with more than cc 3 :D

Well, in legacy I predict that burn (played by 5%) will lead to leyline of sanctity being played Again! (The amount of painter and stormdecks may increase this) so mill in legacy will be troublesome, especially with lots of decks running discard (deathblade, pox, jund) not to talk about a new type of reanimate deck. Tormod's crypt and surgical extraction can only go a Little.

I'm interrested inviewing the painter mill with archive traps though :D

KNIGHTOFTHEHOKEYPOKEY: When I play mill, my best defence against aggro is crypt incursion. Since 4 is not enough to draw this reliably i compensate by using noxious revival in the deck, so I can selfmill into it and then topdeck it :)

COUCH 312:
When I started out playing mill I had a build in legacy with 4 archive traps, 4 trapmakers snare, 4 veteran explorer, 4 fertillids and 4 noble benefactor (Most players overlook the noble benefactor/archive trap interaction), and the design was pretty fast, but lacked something, which turned me to use UB designs instead, but that core was so wild, and I had at least 5-10 turn 1-2 kills by archive trap+trapmakers snare interaction. Veteran explorer, fertillid and noble benefactor went a good way against aggro, and the traps were superior against combo. The main reason why I abandonned this build was the birth of sneakattack with emrakul in it...

There is something vaguely familiar about this deck.
Have you had any communication with someone running a deck like this with mesmeric orb???

TSK!
Inexperienced millers...
Real millers would not miss out on knowing that archive trap is GOD with fertilid, "THE" choice when you want to force a search...

I have a small archive on all modern mill decks that have won top 8:
http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/franck-becquets-esper-mill/

Most important to you perhaps, is the fact that I list the Cards most used by ALL the winning decks and compare the previous amount of these Cards within each deck. If you plainly use the most used Cards there, you can't go much wrong with everything else :D

I've started seing people copying this core Again and again, using some of their own stuff, and at least 4 radically different milldecks use this core successfully...

Shuffling is not searching :D

Well, sometimes I think too fast :D.
(And answer slowly???)

Cool idea :D

It ripples more than you think, and stacks like cascade!!!
(Meaning that they may counter the first, but the second is likely to resolve)

I've had a couple of tournaments in which I've rippled trice during 2 games out of 6, so it's okay often.

Great idea!

I have some doubts in the prophets though.
Could they be replaced by the new merfolk that can untap target permanent?

Ah, but you forget that they have an initial hand of 7 cards, of which some will be 1cc's/2cc's If they open the game by playing a delver of secrets or a goblin guide, one lone critter will take you out before you mill them :D

Well, against decks with costy stuff landremoval works, but against 1cc weenies it wont work good enough :D

Hmm. I overlooked the ravagers, so You got selfremoval nailed down good enough :D I usually play 5 cards minimum when covering certain abilities, so 6 should definitely be enough.

And yeah, the scepter is difficult to put in. All the ravagers sort of reminded me of magistrates scepter + coretapper in someweird way...

So how did it turn out?

Ethersworn canonist will work a bit against noxious revival, so it's possible to remove it. Grand abolisher is sort of also a weak version of the oris/silence/render package and might leave some room for the other cards if removed too. Test each version of the deck just to be sure if it works as intended :D

Something that sacrifices your critters in response to stuff like path to exile or swords to plowshares would do wonders as you get to keep counters.

Also if you could somehow weave magistrates scepter into the deck it would be fun to see what you did with it :D

A small technical detail!
Breaking//entering counts as a 8cc card in certain situations...

Allow me to suggest wand of denial instead, which can be used to first look at a topcard, then you can let it have no effect and may opt to mill anything important away with mindshrieker, and which is fairly okay against combo.

Other usefull stuff might be:
Grimoire thief

How come you've deleted almost all of your other pages?

You forgot to give some feedback :D