Esper Archive Trap Mill (Modern MTG Deck)

This deck takes the basic UB+W mill deck and focuses on Archive Trap and Hedron Crab. I removed a few of the cards I thought would underperform in order to focus on the cards I thought were best.

Archive Trap mills a whole 13 cards. Assuming 52 cards left in their deck after the opening draw, that's about 1/4 of their deck. That's the equivalent of roughly 5 damage in a burn deck, and for no mana. That's extremely good. It's good even if you need to use a 2 mana card like Trapmaker's Snare or Snapcaster Mage to grab it. So, the deck focuses a lot on the trap.

With the deck focusing so heavily on Archive Trap, it's important to have a good way to force the opponent to search. So the deck runs four copies of Field of Ruin. As a bonus, it also triggers Hedron Crab's landfall ability. If anyone knows of any other good cards that force your opponent to search, I would love to hear suggestions.

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 3 Mythic Rares 32 - 9 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.97
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Based on	Esper Salt Mill (KHM Update) TheSurgeon MDN
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