Best Modern Mill: Ashiok's Grinding Blitz

Modern Competitive Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (7)

• 4x Hedron Crab
• 3x Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Land (21)

• 2x Darkslick Shores
• 2x Ghost Quarter
• 4x Island
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 2x Shelldock Isle
• 2x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (19)

• 4x Archive Trap
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 3x Darkness
• 4x Surgical Extraction
• 3x Thought Scour
• 1x Trapmaker's Snare
• 3x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Breaking / Entering
• 1x Damnation
• 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 3x Mind Funeral

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Spellskite

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Illness in the Ranks

Artifact (5)

• 2x Ratchet Bomb
• 2x Torpor Orb
• 1x Witchbane Orb

Instant (6)

• 2x Ravenous Trap
• 2x Retraction Helix
• 2x Trapmaker's Snare

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Maybeboard

Land (1)

• 1x Esper Panorama

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Memory Erosion

Artifact (5)

• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Spellweaver Helix

Instant (6)

• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Kiora's Dismissal
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Trickbind

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Drown in Sorrow
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Lingering Souls
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament

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Mill, Exile, Grind & Card Advantage like a mastermind!




Since I have gotten into M:tG, the "Milling" strategy has quickly became my favorite tactic. I think it is one of the best win scenarios with the fewest defenses. The other is speed and aggro. After building a few casual & 100 card decks for fun, I began the quest of making an elite version. One that would contest with speed and aggro decks. I believe this is the best it gets in the "Milling" category.


It's all about speed here, hence the name Blitz. The deck mainly supports itself. It's very strong on milling and has just enough flexibility to buy you time and get what you need faster!

- Hedron Crab & Fetch lands will kick off the machine to a good start, taking it's three mill hit to a six mill hit per land drop. That's 12 milled per land with two crabs, 18 with three and 24 if you're lucky enough to have all 4 out!
- Notice that Extirpate, Surgical Extraction, Crypt Incursion, Ravenous Trap & Trapmaker's Snare to call Ravenous Trap (or Archive Trap) are all answers to threats such as Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
- Comments are encouraged and welcomed. Thank you. I have left the comments so people can read through the evolution of the deck.



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Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 12 years ago
Date added	12 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 7 Rares 10 - 6 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.54
Folders	Dimir, Milling, Mill Decks, Mazos interesantes, decks to remember, New decks, decks i like, My fave decks, Prospective Modern Builds, land