Duskmantle Guildmage

Creature — Human Wizard

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life. {2}{U}{B}: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Combos

• Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

CopperheadCA on Therapy failed because I kept putting up Walls

1 month ago

Kyyoo, I'd suggest removing any sorceries/enchantments that that focus on milling a player, such as Mind Funeral and Psychic Corrosion and Mind Grind. While your goal is a mill victory, these cards are acting separately from your commander. I'd go hard into being able to tap your creatures to mill, as they are a reusable action as well as.. well defenders. At the very least, the balance should always be tipped towards getting your commander out and tapping creatures, and these effects should be secondary (less of them in your deck).

Duskmantle Guildmage is a bit expensive to mill two cards for 4.

ClockworkSwordfish on Sphinx Zombie Mill

1 month ago

Undead Alchemist is a very fun card - I've tried building around it myself in the past! If you lean a little more in the zombie tribal side of things, one card I've found works beautifully with him is Lich Lord of Unx: he mills your opponent for each zombie you have, which means even more zombies from the Alchemist for the next activation! The Lichlord also plays nicely with Mindcrank, which basically makes him get milled for twice as many cards.

Duskmantle Guildmage isn't a zombie but provides a great backup way to kill a foe off with all the milling going on and is an instant win with the Mindcrank. It's definitely a pricier card, but if you can find room for Bloodchief Ascension, it's a very deadly card when you're mixing mill and life loss like this!

Flarhoon13 on Lazav and Gyruda (Companion): Doom Mind

2 months ago

Ill-Gotten Gains to enable Animate Dead on It That Betrays enabled this deck to win its first game. March 26th memorably saw Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a Priest of Titania, tapping for 11 and utilizing a Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy twice (borrowed thanks to our Roil Elemental) to cheat out a Vilis, Broker of Blood and a Geth, Lord of the Vault, only to enable the Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank combo victory.

wallisface on Blue/black mill

4 months ago

Some thoughts:

• It looks like you're currently trying to do 3 different things here: mill your opponent out, combo-off, and deal them 20 damage. This is just going to weaken your overall gameplan because whichever way to try to win, only half of the cards you draw are going to help with that. I would suggest you reorganize the deck to be entirely-focused on the mill plan, entirely focused on the Duskmantle Guildmage combo, or entirely focused on the beatdown plan.

---

If you're wanting to build a Mill Deck:

• There are no creatures at all worth running except for Hedron Crab and Ruin Crab. Nothing else is even remotely worth the effort of running, because nothing else really helps with the goal of milling your opponent.

• Also something to be aware of, is that you need any card that is milling to get at least 8 cards from your opponents deck (try to compare mill spells as burn spell, except you need to do 53 damage instead of 20 - so the same way that burn can never justify running Shock, mill can never justify running Tome Scour). Any less than this, and you just end up empty-handed with your opponent still alive. So I would suggest ditching Mind Grind, Tome Scour, Traumatize, both the planeswalkers, and your artifacts. I would also say to get rid of Fraying Sanity because that card is just bad. Instead look to add things like Fractured Sanity, Maddening Cacophony and Archive Trap.

• You'll want a decent amount of interaction in the form of Surgical Extraction and Fatal Push, as well as Drown in the Loch. Crypt Incursion is also great to keep yourself alive longer

• An example deck of how this looks here

---

If you're wanting to build a Combo Deck:

• you'll want to up your copies of Mindcrank to a full playset. You also want ways to fetch both your combo pieces in the way of cards like Dimir Infiltrator and Muddle the Mixture, as well as draw spells like Consider or Serum Visions.

• Duskmantle Guildmage is the only real creature you need to run, though its worth also considering Spellskite as a way to protect your combo pieces, and Vendilion Clique as either a way to fix your own hand, or mess with your opponents.

• Your other cards should mainly be focused on ensuring your opponent can't disrupt what you're doing. Spell Pierce and Counterspell will be great here, as well as proactive cards like Inquisition of Kozilek. Because you only really want to slow your opponent down, stuff like Vapor Snag can be decent too (note this card can also start the combo triggering once you have the pieces in play).

• A budget dechtech example with description, list & video this deck here

---

If you're wanting to build a Creature-beatdown Deck:

• You probably don't want to be doing much milling at all, or at least you don't want to be running any cards that only mill. The most practical route to go down is probably using Rogues, with cards like Thieves' Guild Enforcer and Soaring Thought-Thief.

• A budget dechtech example with description, list & video this deck here

Syndras on "Library.exe has stopped working" | Phenax Primer

7 months ago

I've got a Phenax deck since 3 years now (mostly thanks to this primer) and I've got one recommandation and question : How do you manage to resolve the Bloodchief Ascension as we are usually not attacking, ok there is Syr Konrad, the Grim or Duskmantle Guildmage to trigger it but I feel like it's heavily reliant on your opponents. It probably works in your playgroup but whenever I play it, I become the archenemy (even if it's turn 1) because they know that when it's going to be online, it will be really difficult for them to kill me and prevent me from killing them. An alternative/recommandation at the same cost may be Ruin Crab. P.S. I love the legacy combo <3

sgtmayham on

8 months ago

Jace Beleren Jace, Memory Adept Mesmeric OrbMindcrank Duskmantle Guildmage Are a few suggestions I would Give. Good Milling in case something happens to Phenax. and Mindcrank and Duskmantle Guildmage is an infinite combo.

Evool on Mirko Vosk, Mind The Mill

8 months ago

2nd edit; added a few mana rocks and dual lands. More usefull mill spells, removed a few mill 2s for things like Duskmantle Guildmage, Ruin Crab, Telemin Performance, and Teferi's Tutelage.Also added more wombo-combos to add to Mirko like Fireshrieker and Trepanation Blade. Sprinkled a little more mill in with Mindcrank to start hurting them when they mill.

legendofa on Mill Flayers

9 months ago

Welcome to the club, Raijin1989!

For being a first deck, this is very solid in its focus and balance. I'm also impressed with your available cards, like Mana Crypt, Force of Will, The Meathook Massacre...

If you want an instant mill win condition, Mindcrank and either Bloodchief Ascension or Duskmantle Guildmage can knock out an opponent on the spot. If you manage to get all your opponents to lose life or put a card in their graveyard at the same time, you just won.

If you want to disable a graveyard-focused deck, Eater of the Dead is very good, but I don't see a way to tap it on demand. Something like Hermetic Study/Psionic Gift or Banishing Knack/Retraction Helix could push it even further. Alternatively or supplementary, Tormod's Crypt can wipe out a problematic graveyard immediately.