Mill Town

Commander / EDH* UB (Dimir)

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Creature (29)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Armored Skaab
• 1x Bane Alley Broker
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dimir Informant
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Foulmire Knight
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Pain Seer
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Instant (16)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Remove Soul
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Visions of Beyond
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Divination
• 1x Epic Downfall
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Rags / Riches
• 1x Scour All Possibilities
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 11x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Creek

Artifact (4)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Prismatic Lens

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Sideboard

Creature (16)

• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Crosstown Courier
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Drowner of Secrets
• 1x Errant Ephemeron
• 1x Gorgon Recluse
• 1x Mindstab Thrull
• 1x Mournwhelk
• 1x Oculus
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Stealer of Secrets
• 1x Sutured Ghoul
• 1x Triton Fortune Hunter
• 1x Vedalken Entrancer

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Assassin's Strike
• 1x Blood Tithe
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Gruesome Discovery
• 1x Mind Rot
• 1x Mind Sculpt
• 1x Sever Soul
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Tome Scour
• 1x Undercity Plague

Instant (2)

• 1x Douse in Gloom
• 1x Power Sink

Artifact (2)

• 1x Demon's Horn
• 1x Trading Post

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dying Wish

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Caligo Skin-Witch
• 1x Fathom Feeder
• 1x Watchers of the Dead
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker

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Summary

It's Emma's mill deck, with requested tweaks.

It goes without saying that milling out opponents is difficult and requires tools to survive the long game: board clears, card advantage, and spell-based disruption. Any card that says "each opponent puts X cards in the graveyard" is invaluable for this reason. And even then, cards like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth prevent milling entirely.

Game plan

Mill all players, including yourself. Gain card advantage off of cards that can be cast from your graveyard so you never run out of gas. Play cards that like to be tapped or untapped to leverage Phenax's ability. Sweep the board at will because Phenax is indestructible. Win on turn 100.

Cards with flashback/enbalm/eternalize/retrace

Deep Analysis is the posterchild for this strategy. If you mill yourself and Deep Analysis lands in your graveyard, you get to draw 2 cards without using a card from your hand for two mana and three life!. That's effectively drawing three cards!

Since a lot of mill cards say "each player puts X cards in their graveyard" and you are a player, this deck naturally wants to play cards like Deep Analysis . Some highlights include:

• Rags / Riches - One of the problems with including cards that say "each creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn" is that they're so situational. This card can be redeemed in late game for a mass mind control/edict effect, which is astounding value.
• Commit / Memory - In a deck that can put the top two cards of an opponent's library into their graveyard, an effect that says "put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top" effectively says "counter target spell or destroy target creature". Expensive but flexible cards such as this one are staples of control decks since it's so hard to cover all possible scenarios in a reactive deck.
• Forbidden Alchemy - "Look at the top 4 cards of your library and choose one" is surprisingly close to a tutor. This sort of effect is known as card filtering and is a staple of reactive decks. Find lands early, find action late.
• Champion of Wits can be played from your graveyard to give a 4/4 that draws four cards and discards two for 7 mana. That is incredible value.

One-card mill engines

• Manic Scribe is a 0/3 that mills each opponent for 3 cards during their turns in the late game. Not super powerful but it's also an early blocker, which this deck sorely needs.
• Folio of Fancies is a one-card mill engine that mills all opponents and can dig you to action in emergencies. It's also a f**k you to opponents who draw a million cards. Plays politics.
• Mind Grind , Consuming Aberration - one card mill engines.
• Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver - a f**k you to midrange decks with big creatures that incidentally mills.
• Dreamborn Muse is a creature, which helps with Phenax.

Board clears

• Extinguish All Hope is the cheapest board clear in black.
• AEtherspouts and AEtherize are similar cards that discourage players from attacking you.

Inspired cards (cards that like to be untapped)

I'm also including cards that like to be tapped.

• King Macar, the Gold-Cursed - kills creatures with the aid of Phenax.
• Pain Seer - with Phenax, it's effectively Dark Confidant.
• Siren of the Silent Song - similar to Pain Seer but has slight incidental mill.
• Daring Thief - you know that 0/3 Manic Scribe you don't need anymore? Trade it for your opponent's game-winning bomb.
• Arbiter of the Ideal - This deck is mostly permanents so Arbiter's Inspired ability usually gives a free card.
• Scaretiller - ramps you when it's tapped.
• Surgespanner - bounces stuff when it's tapped.

Ways to untap stuff

What's better than milling people? Milling them twice! A lot of these cards can also untap lands, which means they're mana dorks. This deck sorely needs mana dorks.

• Niblis of the Breath
• Aphetto Alchemist
• Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• Fatestitcher

Removal

• Drown in the Loch is a split counterspell/removal spell in self-mill decks.

Walls

• Djinn of Infinite Deceits is disgusting.
• Mnemonic Wall is great value.
• Drift of Phantasms is a split wall/tutor.
• Slagwurm Armor gives +6 toughness at a very low cost.
• Pontiff of Blight gains you a metric ton of life if it lives.

Other synergy cards

• Lazav, Dimir Mastermind is a clone with hexproof made for mill decks.
• Silent Arbiter is an auto-include in Phenax because of its high toughness, and an ability that shuts down go-wide strategies completely.
• Havengul Lich - cast your opponent's cards from graveyards!
• Visions of Beyond - Ancestral Recall for mill decks.
• Jace, Wielder of Mysteries lets you win if you deck yourself.
• Syr Konrad, the Grim massively punishes your opponents for board clears and hurts them when they mill cards.
• Mystic Sanctuary lets you reuse powerful sorceries at very little cost.
• Witch's Cottage is no Mystic Sanctuary but is still worth including.
• Talent of the Telepath mills for seven and lets you cast two spells.

Graveyard hate

If opponents benefit from you milling them, you will desperately need ways to remove their graveyard. - Nihil Spellbomb exiles a graveyard and doesn't cost you a card. - Bojuka Bog belongs in every single black EDH deck, including this one.

Boring mana rocks

• Guardian Idol is a budget staple.
• Dimir Signet and Talisman of Dominance are cheap and powerful.
• Deranged Assistant is a rare blue mana dork and it also mills you.
• Millikin is a colorless deranged assistant.
• Darksteel Ingot survives "destroy all artifacts" which is something.
• Star Compass and Prismatic Lens are both good, basic mana rocks.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 6 Rares 17 - 12 Uncommons 27 - 15 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.49
Tokens	Champion of Wits 4/4 B, City's Blessing, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Goat 0/1 W, Gold, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W, Zombie 2/2 B