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Screaming Swarm
Creature — Bird Horror
Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (They put that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.)
: Put this from your graveyard into your library second form the top.
gavriel1136 on
Gravefall 1.0
1 year ago
Some quality self-mill cards:
Angel of Suffering, Fleet Swallower, Screaming Swarm (If you're going wide), Selhoff Occultist, Sewer Nemesis
Balaam__ on Balaam__
2 years ago
lespaul977 I don’t mind offering advice, but I’m not exactly a tier 1 player myself. So I’d definitely recommend shopping the idea for this deck around and collecting as much perspective as you can on it before you invest any time or money in finalizing it.
This may sound excessive but I’d cut
Djinni Windseer (doesn’t contribute)
Eternal of Harsh Truths (doesn’t contribute)
Homarid Explorer (cmc too high, not enough value)
Laboratory Maniac (useless, you’re milling the opponent and not yourself)
Minister of Inquiries (it’s ok, but with no way to get more energy counters his value fades fast. Blinking him to get more energy counters is not efficient)
Screaming Swarm (cmc way too high, won’t see play often and mill decks rarely have more than a handful of creatures, none of which are used for attacking)
Soulknife Spy (doesn’t contribute)
Essence Flux (Blink is ineffective here)
Trepanation Blade (seems good but rarely is, not to mention you won’t be attacking)
Curiosity (doesn’t contribute, your other draw spells are much better)
Wizard Class (doesn’t contribute)
So that’s what I’d cut. Dream Twist and Visions of Beyond are great and synergize well, Unsummon is good but Vapor Snag is better; I’d replace that with it if possible. I’d fill the remainder of the slots with Crabs if it’s an option (see below), countermagic (Counterspell, Mana Leak, Spell Pierce etc) and if you are adding (again, see below) there are oodles of instants/sorceries to choose from. If not, try to accommodate as many mono direct mill spells as possible.
I guess we have to address some of the elephants in the room. If you’re intent on keeping this mono , then you’ll miss out on what the complimentary color brings to the Mill archetype: cards like Breaking / Entering and Glimpse the Unthinkable.
Which brings us to the next obstacle, budget. If you’re looking to keep the price down and/or only build from your current collection, that also complicates things. Cards like Archive Trap and Tasha's Hideous Laughter are Mill staples, but are also costly. There are alternatives, like Fractured Sanity and Maddening Cacophony which are both cheap and mono , so that can help fill the gaps.
Third, you’ll want to run the crabs. Hedron Crab is pricey, but Ruin Crab is doable. Ideally you’d run both, but one is ok. You’ll be capitalizing on every possible opportunity to mill like this; every land played mills, nearly all your spells should mill, etc.
Hope this helps, and again—I’m no expert. But I’ve built one mill deck (check my page if interested, I think it’s called Trouble at the old mill or something like that) and have another in the works so I’m somewhat familiar with how they play. Ask around, collect info and don’t be afraid to inspect the ones the pros play for some ideas.
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