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Dimir Mill Deck (U/B)

Modern* Mill

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Sideboard

Sorcery (4)

Enchantment (4)

Artifact (3)

Creature (4)


Maybeboard

Instant (1)

Enchantment (1)

Artifact (1)

Planeswalker (1)


This deck is theoretical at this point. It will take some time to complete, mostly since Glimpse the Unthinkable is around $33 a card. I'd like some feedback on the concept for right now. If anyone has run this deck (or something very similar), I'd like to know how it does.

So this deck is a very aggressive mill deck. There's no creatures in it, since it's trying to reduce opponent's library to 0 ASAP.

Archive Trap is a very good card and almost essential in any sort of mill deck, though it's much less effective against single color decks, since the chances of the opponent needing to search reduces. Still, when playing up against popular modern decks like Tron and Jund, you're almost guaranteed for the free cast condition to happen. But Ghost Quarter was thrown in if needed to FORCE the search condition to make it cast for free.

Hedron Crab works well with Terramorphic Expanse, Evolving Wilds, and even Ghost Quarter, since you could blast your own lands. That allows for a max of 3 landfall triggers if you play a Wilds/Expanse, sacrifice for basic land, and happen to have Quarter in play already to sac it and the basic for the 3rd landfall.

Take Inventory was thrown in to help with having no hand after a few turns, as well as it would bounce off of Sphinx's Tutelage well since it increase amount of cards drawn the more its played. Sphinx's Tutelage was thrown to sideboard since a lot of tough modern decks are multicolored, which would reduce the chance of the Tutelage's effect chain proc. If against a mono color deck, I'd think of swapping the Crab with Tutelage.

Jace's Phantasm is on the sideboard in case of needing a cheap defender or wanting to put pressure on opponent from another area.

Bitter Ordeal seemed to meld well with the deck, since it copies for each permanent that was milled, though I can see it popping up a little late because of mana cost worries. It costs B2 and would work best with a free Archive Trap drop, but could also work with Tome Scour by turn 4, I suppose.

Relic of Progenitus is on the sideboard in case I run into a deck that has cards that shuffle the graveyard into the library when hitting the graveyard (Like the old Eldrazi Titans). Ideally it'd be out when I happen to mill such a card and before the mill effect resolved, I'd sacrifice the Relic and exile opponent's graveyard before they get to shuffle it with their library.

The rest of the mainboard seems pretty self-explanatory. They're sorceries that are most cost effective in terms of how much they mill vs their CMC.

So that's what I'm thinking for this mill deck. Any feedback on the deck in general would be appreciated. Like I said, this is theoretical at this point and I'm not sure how it would run. I'd also like some opinions on what cards to substitute for Glimpse the Unthinkable until I get enough money to get 4 copies of it.

Thanks you :)

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

16 - 4 Rares

12 - 11 Uncommons

20 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.00
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