Self Milling Makes You Go Blind

Commander / EDH Defender Mill Sacrifice UB (Dimir)

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Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Haunting Misery
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Morgue Theft
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unearth

Creature (31)

• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Dross Scorpion
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Undead Gladiator
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Souls
• 1x Wall of Tears
• 1x Wall of Tombstones
• 1x Wall of Water

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Myr Turbine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Instant (8)

• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Coffin Purge
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Wake the Dead

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

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Updated version of my oldest Commander deck. Favorite wincon is Tombstone Stairwell ; nobody sees it coming until it's too late. There are multiple combos, notably Blasting Station + Dross Scorpion + Myr Turbine , and Grindstone + Painter's Servant . Basalt Monolith + Mesmeric Orb is one way to self mill your entire deck to setup Thassa's Oracle , Laboratory Maniac , or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries . Haunting Misery is a one-card wincon, as is Eater of the Dead .

Obviously, lots of recursion, and a fair amount of spot removal and counterspells. In my experience, this deck tends to fly under the radar with a non-threatening board state, but as soon as you beat someone with it they never forget you're a big threat as soon as your library starts flooding into your graveyard. I'd love to know other people's experience with similar decks: what works against certain strategies and what to look out for.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Basalt Monolith + Mesmeric Orb Grindstone + Painter's Servant Blasting Station + Dross Scorpion + Myr Turbine
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Gold, Myr 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste