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UB "Combo" Mill HOU

Standard*

Kagani


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This deck is slightly different from other mill decks in the sense that it usually isn't trying to slowly mill your opponent, but do it all in one or two instances. Fraying Sanity coupled with Startled Awake   mills 13, then at end of turn 13 again, 26 total. If you happen to have two fraying sanity out it'll mill 52 with just one startled awake cast. Similarly if you have one sanity and cast startled awake twice (over 2 turns typically) it'll be 26 and 26, totaling 52, both instances are enough to win on turn pass or Geier Reach Sanitarium activation. The incremental mill comes from removal with fraying sanity out, or Yahenni's Expertise into freecast Fraying Sanity. Ipnu Rivulet helps get you the last bit if you can't seem to find or resolve the combo. There have been plenty of circumstances where I use 2 rivulets to end the game and it's a more versatile card than say Compelling Arguement (which is fine but I don't run it) because it produces mana and takes up a land slot, not a spell slot.

Outside of the combo kills you can win with Torrential Gearhulk (like most blue control decks) though this is far less likely. The support to the combo shell is a smattering of dig spells, counterspells, removal and bounce. Removal is preferred if you have fraying sanity out because it adds to their mill counts, bounce is great for buying time to find or cast the combo, especially against problematic cards like Gideon, Ally of Zendikar or other combo pieces God-Pharaoh's Gift Gate to the Afterlife deck or New Perspectives , and so forth.

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Revision 1 See all

(6 years ago)

+1 Commit / Memory side
+1 Grasp of Darkness main
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Date added 6 years
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Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 2 Mythic Rares

23 - 2 Rares

17 - 5 Uncommons

7 - 6 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.29
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