Varina, Mill Queen

Commander / EDH Mill WUB (Esper) Zombie

Phosphene

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 9x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 5x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (11)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Empty the Pits
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Artifact (15)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Azorius Locket
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Orzhov Locket
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Creature (12)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wonder

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Bond of Insight
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Harsh Mercy
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Mass Diminish
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Necromancer's Covenant
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Quiet Speculation

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This is my Varina, Lich Queen beatdown-mill deck. Our plan is to beat our opponents face with our zombie token army while milling them by taking advantage our Varina, Lich Queen abilities.

This is a Mill deck which relies a lot on have a bunch of zombies tokens on the board. Whenever we swing with our army of zombie token and Varina, Lich Queen is on the board, we will get to draw a ton of cards, therefore we added many the usual draw/mill value cards. However, Varina's second part of the same ability makes us discard just as many cards. In order to gain advantage of this, we added some discard value like Archfiend of Ifnir to wipe the board whenever we attack, a lot of flashback and delve cards, and even some cards that interact with the amount of cards we have in our graveyard to mill our opponents.

When you finally reach the critical mass of zombie token with Varina on the field and one of our key cards like Psychic Corrosion, things can get out of hand quickly. Once, I swinged with 10 zombies, get to draw 10 cards from varina and cast Keep Watch to draw an extra 10 cards. post combat cast Ancient Excavation drawing 13 (had 3 cards in hand before combat). With Psychic Corrosion on the field, I milled my opponents for 66 cards, not bad.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 22 - 1 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Commander