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Esper Salt Mill (KHM Update)

Modern TheSurgeon

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Catching up.. —Oct. 10, 2019

I admit, I don't look at the sets very often, but when catching up on the last few sets, and really reading the cards, I found that Scheming Symmetry is a forced search mechanic. (I know, "thanks for joining the rest of us""). So I shoehorned 2 of them in for 1 Crypt Incursion and one Mind Funeral as it will allow me to search for either or; and with the synergy of Archive Trap, it will mill more than Funeral for less.

I'm actually thinking of adding the full set, and taking out some copies of the tempo cards, since they'll be tutorable and will make the deck more fluid in answers; also giving me more control over the tempo games 2 and 3, when the heat is on. Thoughts?

HySpeed says... #1

Being 3 color, double blue might be too much - good point.

Stream is 4 cards for 1 mana, which is nice. I used to have a table that listed mill cards and their "mill per mana" ratio. It was something like:

  • Breaking {UB}: 8 cards / 2 mana = 4
  • Glimpse {UB}: 10 cards / 2 mana = 5
  • Funeral {1UB}: ~4 cards / 3 mana = ~4
  • -- I am guestimating 4 cards before a land on average.
  • Trap {0}: 13 cards / 0 mana = 13

adding your suggestion:

  • Stream {U}: 4 cards / 1 mana = 4
  • -- plus the late game: {U}{2UU}: 8 cards / 5 mana = ~2

So it is a cheaper version of breaking.

September 20, 2019 9:09 p.m.