Competitive players scorn cards like howling mine and font of mythos, so I do too :P You seem to want some defences against creatures, so consider using leyline of singularity. Also take a look at my decks.
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Perhaps leyline of singularity might be of use? Also take a look at my mill-decks.
You should take a look at my current modern deck! I seriously suggest that you try out leyline of singularity in modern, as it crushes tokens, elfcombo, splintertwin, and generally slows down beatdown decks...
You may consider leyline of singularity for the sideboard. Also take a look at my competitive legacy and modern decks.
Since you deck is only legal in vintage and legacy, you should take a look at my two CURRENT decks, which are legacy and modern legal, and very competitive. I recently got number 29 out of 85 with the legacy-deck!
Why play mill for fun? I recently placed 29 out of 85 in legacy, so mill CAN be serious. Go take a look at my CURRENT decks.
Take a look at my decks. I'm trying to beat both legacy and modern with mill, so there might be something in there for you to learn.
I normally dislike combomill, as I am trying to build pure-mill in both legacy and modern. However, mill is soo cool, that I want to suggest serum visions to you ;D
Do you think leyline of singularity could be usefull in this?
Slow down creature decks with leyline of singularity. It also locks down a lot of decktypes.
HAH! GOT IT! I caught a lucky insight last weekend when searching after a new sideboard card for my modern mill. leyline of singularity: The leyline will be valuable in legacy as well, because it seriously slows down creaturedecks, and that is something I have been searching for in a long time, and it's not likely to be countered :) In modern it allmost cripples token-decks, give egg-decks a hell when they play second sunrise, and elfcombo will also suffer a lot. And since you requested something to protect you from creatures, this should be a card for you! Unless your permanents interfere too much ? Perhaps lose the zendicons? Keep the crabs, since they get killed so often it doesn't matter if you have to keep most of them in your hand for a while :)
You are in luck, COLBS35 I have recently "discovered" leyline of singularity while searching for 3 sideboard cards for my modern mill. The leyline will be valuable in legacy as well, because it seriously slows down creaturedecks, and that is something I have been searching for in a long time, and it's not likely to be countered :) In modern it allmost cripples token-decks, give egg-decks a hell when they play second sunrise, and elfcombo will also suffer a lot. Maybe you can use it too?
Here might be another great addition, though a difficult one. If you have read charless stross and some of his storyies about the "laundry" you will know that some of their flashwords will be "singularity", and as azatoth (and others) is able to create stuff like that you might want to consider: LEYLINE OF SINGULARITY: It slows ordinary beatdown down a lot, kills any tokenbased decks like splintertwin, and may prevent empty the warrens from eating you. It cripples anything that needs 2 of the same permanent in play to win, and it's generally awesome. It will be difficult to insert into your deck, but you might want to consider it, because it seriously cripple a lot of decks out there :)
Good news RAVENKLATH: I have recently "discovered" leyline of singularity while searching for 3 sideboard cards for my modern mill. The leyline will be valuable in legacy as well, because it seriously slows down creaturedecks, and that is something I have been searching for in a long time, and it's not likely to be countered :) In modern it allmost cripples token-decks, give egg-decks a hell when they play second sunrise, and elfcombo will also suffer a lot. Depending on the meta you can switch between singularity and sanctuary, maybe have one set in sideboard and the other in main? U like?
I have recently "discovered" leyline of singularity while searching for 3 sideboard cards for my modern mill. The leyline will be valuable in legacy as well, because it seriously slows down creaturedecks, and that is something I have been searching for in a long time, and it's not likely to be countered :) In modern it allmost cripples token-decks, give egg-decks a hell when they play second sunrise, and elfcombo will also suffer a lot.
Heh! Have thought of using it against stuff like charbelcher. (Look ma, no deck!) I have recently "discovered" leyline of singularity while searching for 3 sideboard cards for my modern mill. The leyline will be valuable in legacy as well, because it seriously slows down creaturedecks, and that is something I have been searching for in a long time, and it's not likely to be countered :) In modern it allmost cripples token-decks, give egg-decks a hell when they play second sunrise, and elfcombo will also suffer a lot.
Yeah, the one thing I hate the most is when someone takes a modern aggro to a legacy-event and I meet them. They tend to beat me one turn faster than the legacyaggro, so The most vital thing for me is to win game 1, to avoid all the rogue creature decks out there. Whenever that fails I generally have to fight that kind of decks until the loserbrackets :( I'm working on splitting my sideboard into: 5 cards versus combo, 5 cards versus reanimate, and 5 versus creatures.
Well, "dragon's maze" might have that 1 mill-card that will make my mill really competetive. If they make a mill-card that both removes emrakul and mills 6 cards Ill buy it even for tons of money :D
KAIRU: If you really really want the protection, the most "casual" pick will be ensnaring bridge, though it has some disadvantages. Otherwise click on my name/handle, then research the two decks with CURRENT in their names, see the how to play and that stuff.
COLBS35: Legacy is very competitive, and about 66% of the meta has counterspells, making it very hard to play both removal and mill at the same time. Since if you do, they will just counter your most heavy mill-cards, and then you are left with removal, which won't win you the game. That's why I favor a "pure-mill" approach! (Which means I have 4-5 turns to mill away aggro!) Mesmeric orb is a very good card, and there are very few decks that it is useless against, but I favor it for two other reasons, being dreamtwist and darkblast! Lategame my designs tend to run out of steam, and I suddenly have no cards to play. Dream twist buy's me some extra attempts, especially if I have mesmeric orb in play. If I get the orb, I constantly tap out during an opponents end, to get as many dream twists in the grave as possible. I have won several games just by getting 1-2 twists in the grave this way. Darkblast is one of the only removalspells I would dare play against a deck with counterspells. It's dredge ability allows me to play it during my upkeep, then i can dredge it into my hand and recast it, effectively allowing me to make a critter -2/-2. And most importantly, when it dredges there is a slight chance for me to dredge dreamtwist into the grave as well. This "flashback" setup works so well that I'm considering to add "increasing confusion" a lot! Also think about my ranking! A 29'th place doesn't say much on it's own, unless you think in reverse. It means that 59 decks had a worser day than a milling deck had ;) And how many of these decks were actually know, archetypes with a lot of powerfull cards and thoughts put into them? A lot has to be the answer. Maybe about 1 third of them have been rogue or kiddie-decks, which still means that 40 classical decks fared worse than my mill...
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