Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Legendary Creature — Vampire

Flying

Whenever Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Venum on Phenax of the Many Mills

3 weeks ago

Always happy to see another Phenax deck, here's my budget friendly suggestions :

Mortivore Cruel Somnophage Wight of Precinct Six they all pretty much do the same thing. / that benefits from the milled cards.

Undead Alchemist is a fun one to create token, which you can tap for more mill.

Guiltfeeder and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker are also great synergy with mill-deck.

Eater of the Dead is also great because you mill at least 4 cards with the Phenax ability and you can rinse-repeat to possibly mill-out an opponent or all of them.

Venum on God flippin' librairies upside-down [PRIMER]

1 month ago

NV_1980 ,

Those are all awesome recommendations.

For Mind Funeral , i hesitated a long time between that card and Mind Grind and opted for the later since it targets all opponent. It makes creatures like Cruel Somnophage much bigger and faster.

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker and Guiltfeeder will 100% fin their place in the deck, just gotta find what to cut.

As for the enchantments, I don't know how I never thought of them. Now i can see Tree of Perdition milling out people in one turn.

Wildly appreciate your take on the take ! Thanks a lot

NV_1980 on God flippin' librairies upside-down [PRIMER]

1 month ago

Nice mill deck. Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker is absolute murder against decks that can't block fliers. On a simlar note, Mind Funeral is also a great mill-spell (usually mills much more than four cards). I would also heartily recommend Guiltfeeder; it's complete murder against opponents that have already been milled a bunch. Lastly, Freed from the Real and Pemmin's Aura are awesome when tapping for mill.

NV_1980 on commander mill

6 months ago

Hi opencorners! Please consider adding some more mana-options to the deck. Right now, all you have for that are lands and compared to the average commander deck, this will make your deck painfully slow. Options I'd recommend include Arcane Signet, Dimir Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Thran Dynamo and most especially Sol Ring. Dark Ritual can also be extremely useful at times.

You could also do with some more card-advantage (draw) to increase the deck's speed. Notion ThiefGC, Phyrexian Arena, Ponder and Preordain could all be great additions for this.

Aside from this, I'd recommend giving the following cards a shot (I've tried to keep them budget):

• Breach the Multiverse: strong mill-spell that's potentially game-ending in terms of the sudden advantage you can gain (especially if you play against multiple opponents).
• Freed from the Real/Pemmin's Aura: allows you to untap your strongest millers (when Phenax is around) for next-to-nothing cost, and use them to mill again.
• Memory Erosion: quite deadly against decks that try to overwhelm you with the amount of spells that can cast per turn (this card is the death of prowess and storm decks).
• Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker: great mill potential with every successful attack.
• Nighthowler: a second Wight of Precinct Six.
• Sphinx's Tutelage: an incredibly effective mill card as it's triggered by your draw (which makes having more draw in your deck even more beneficial).

Hope this helped. In case you need some more insights, have a look at my own Phenax deck. Good luck with the deck.

wallisface on U/B Mill

11 months ago

Mill decks only ever want to be running Hedron Crab and Ruin Crab as creatures. Any other options are just not helpful or conductive towards winning. Specifically:

• both Consuming Aberration and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker cost such a high amount of mana that the game should already be over (mill decks should be aiming to win by turn 4). and both barely does any amount of actual milling for their egregious costs.

• Duskmantle Guildmage is only useful as a combo card with Mindcrank. On its own it's basically useless. If you are doing the Mindcrank combo then there's no real reason to run any other mill cards.

• Fog Bank does nothing and gives your opponent more time to overwhelm you or assemble their combo.

Other cards that i'd suggest are bad choices:

• Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver does very little for its cost. milling 3 cards for 3 mana is a very slow rate.

• Fraying Sanity is a massive trap card that a lot of casual mill players fall into. In almost all cases it doesn't speed up the clock for you beating your opponent.

• All of Mind Grind, Increasing Confusion, Mind Funeral, and Pilfered Plans just do faar too little for their mana cost. Memory Sluice is also a really bad return unless you can really reliably trigger it's Conspire ability.

I would suggest looking at cards like Fractured Sanity, Maddening Cacophony, and Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list*. Archive Trap is also a mill-must-have, but may be less-useful if your playgroup isn't using fetchlands. Jace, the Perfected Mind is also serviceable as a planeswalker.

Your deck also really needs some interaction - mill decks are typically too slow to out-race aggro and combo, so you need options to make sure you slow those decks down enough to win the race. Options normally include Drown in the Loch, Fatal Push, and Surgical Extraction

Hordebane on Big Booties Tapping to Mill for a Million

1 year ago

KongMing, I actually played around a bit with Mind Grind and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker in the list.
I honestly just found that they weren't the best value of mana to mill, or moreso in the case of Mirko that he didn't fit as well with the defender wall feeling I liked going for with the deck.
They were both late cuts that almost stayed in, so they've still stuck around in the Maybeboard for the deck.
Undercity Informer, on the other hand, is one that I hadn't actually considered yet.
Like you said, it's an interesting retaliation for a board wipe, assuming I have plenty of open mana.

dr.kronski, I think Captain N'ghathrod definitely has some potential to pull a lot of good creatures out of my opponents' graveyards.
The one downside I see is that he only triggers on MY end step.
The reason this is a problem is because a big strength of this deck and commander is that I'm able to leave all of my high-toughness blockers up to block for me and just tap them down to mill at the end step before my turn.
So as a result, the majority of the mill that the deck dishes out isn't actually during my own turn.

KongMing on Big Booties Tapping to Mill for a Million

1 year ago

A lot of decks like to run low land counts and thin themselves to boot. Although they don't trigger keyword Mill effects, the cards Mind Grind and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker can become real threats to those builds.

Also, Undercity Informer can be good for grinding someone out in response to a boardwipe, or when you have enough expendable bodies to just take them out.

legendofa on Pioneer lantern control

1 year ago

There really isn't any Pioneer-legal single card that continuallu reveals topdecks without doing something else, like Dakra Mystic. There aren't that many topdeck-reveal cards outside of Pioneer, either. That's why Lantern of Insight is so valuable in the deck. The only other directly similar card is Wizened Snitches, with stuff like Aven Windreader being a lot less efficient.

I like the idea, I messed around with Modern Lantern Control for a while, but I don't think the cards are there for a Pioneer version. Your Saheeli's Silverwing blink is as efficient as anything else I came up with in a few quick searches. There just aren't that many cards that let you look at your opponent's library without immediately exiling, milling, or somehow manipulating it--Thief of Sanity, Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker, etc. Draugr Thought-Thief is pretty much the only other Pioneer-legal card I can find.