Mind-miller

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue

clockian

Merfolk (23)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Coralhelm Commander
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Emperor Mihail II
• 1x Fallowsage
• 1x Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1x Lord of Atlantis
• 1x Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Merrow Harbinger
• 1x Merrow Reejerey
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Silvergill Adept
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Tempest Caller
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Tide Shaper
• 1x Tidebinder Mage
• 1x Tideshaper Mystic
• 1x Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1x Wake Thrasher

Give Control (3)

• 1x Modify Memory
• 1x Shifting Grift
• 1x Wrong Turn

Board Wipes and Fogs (14)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x Filter Out
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Mirror Match
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Spectral Deluge
• 1x The Phasing of Zhalfir
• 1x Wash Out

Lands (40)

• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hydroelectric Specimen  ^Flip
• 1x Jwari Disruption  ^Flip
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 35x Snow-Covered Island

Mana Ramp (5)

• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Draw (11)

• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Flow of Knowledge
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Ingenious Prodigy
• 1x Kumena's Awakening
• 1x Mind Unbound
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Prosperity

Token Gen (3)

• 1x Deeproot Pilgrimage
• 1x Deeproot Waters
• 1x Reflections of Littjara

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Mind-miller

The Mindskinner Commander deck built around milling with combat damage using your commander. Since the commander has such a big stat line, the deck is built around exchanging your commander to your opponents, goading it, then copying your commander back to do it all over again. We do this for a couple reasons

1. Gets around the legendary rule in a fairly cheap way, as cards like Helm of the Host, Auton Soldier, and Quantum Misalignment are pretty expensive
2. Allows for a degree of haste, swinging on your turn, then forcing your opponents to swing for you to mill the table faster
3. Prevents your opponents from killing you to early, as scary mid-range aggro decks will have all their damage prevented
4. It's funny

Aside from this, to close out the game, there are a couple of mana duplicators with High Tide and Extraplanar Lens that can be used with group hug draw cards to end the game, like Prosperity and Minds Aglow, in addition to providing some of the best mana to draw ratios on a draw spell for a low price tag.

If your strategy gets sniped, you can stall out the game with a plethora of board wipes and fog-like effects, like with my one of my favorite spells Illusionist's Gambit.

An ideal opening hand will have a draw spell, clone spell, exchange spell, and a goad spell, but good luck getting that. I would hazard away from any opening hand with two or more clone spells or exchange spells, as they are useless unless you have a good creature like Renegade Silent or Body of Knowledge.

Win/Loss Record Show

• 2024-11-19 - Win - 4 pod against Xantcha, Sleeper Agent, Marrow-Gnawer, and Rocco, Street Chef on Tabletop Simulator. The Xantcha player didn't really do much for the 6-7 turns the game lasted. Rocco gave me some much needed impulse draw to hit my land drops. The Marrow-Gnawer popped off, building a good board state, and after I mill everyone 15 cards in an attack, he used a graveyard recovery spell to get all of his rats from his graveyard. He had an ETB aristocratic, so in response, I Wrong Turn my commander to him to prevent that damage from being dealt to the other players and myself. He then swung to mill out the other two players, taking me to 11 cards. I only had a Royal Assassin that I copied, so I played Reins of Power to take his board and swing to win the game. In retrospect, Marrow-Gnawer may have won if he blocked with his Assassin, then tapped to destroy one of the creatures. Close victory.
• 2024-12-10 - Loss - 3 pod against Krenko, Mob Boss and Ezuri, Claw of Progress. My biggest mistake was not exchanging my artifact for a Sol Ring, thus I had one less mana for Aetherspouts during the one time the Krenko player swung all out. The second mistake was playing Aetherspouts when Krenko swung half out instead of Winter's Chill when Krenko was tapped out, thus saving the Aetherspouts for a more consequetial swing the next turn.
• 2025-01-08 - Loss - Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, Kibo, Uktabi Prince, Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, close loss, able to manipulate the Kibo to killing the Shirei and Pantlaza at the end of the game, but didn't have the ability to kill Kibo. May have lived if I drew 4 extra cards from my card draw.

Notes Show

ideas

• Go with low to the ground unblockable combat damage to draw cards?
• Consider cloning commander, and giving cloned commander to other players, better if you can make them hard to kill or use, so it's like a static effect
• Downside, that's really hard to do and not that effective

Interesting cards

• Aura of Dominion - absolutley crazy super mana generator on a dork
• Fear of Failed Tests
• Fear of Impostors
• Domineering Will - switch out with Spectral Deluge if it's to expensive or Devastation Tide if you don't like the general boardwipe, which I kindof don't.

Change V0 Notes Show

Adding goad to make sure the creatures I give attack

• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive to Bloodthirsty Blade
• Bind the Monster to Mocking Doppelganger
• Bitter Chill to Renegade Silent
• Charmed Sleep to Sly Instigator
• Claustrophobia to Psychic Impetus
• Containment Membrane to Maeve, Insidious Singer
• Dramatic Accusation to Laser Screwdriver
• Frozen Solid to Coveted Peacock

adding draw

• Glimmerdust Nap to Kumena's Awakening
• Locked in the Cemetery to Mind Unbound
• Singing Bell Strike to Endless Atlas
• Waterknot to Flow of Knowledge
• Island to Glasspool Mimic  
• Diluvian Primordial to Flow of Ideas
• Fog Bank to Minds Aglow
• Angel's Trumpet to Prosperity
• Blackblade Reforged to Decanter of Endless Water
• Whispersilk Cloak to Rite of Replication
• Winged Boots to Tempt with Reflections
• Hedron Crab to Engulf the Shore
• Increasing Confusion to River's Rebuke
• Ruin Crab to Aetherspouts
• Jace's Phantasm to AEtherize
• Trepanation Blade to Crashing Drawbridge
• Volatile Stormdrake to Spawnbroker
• Endless Atlas to Fascination
• Captivating Glance to Wash Out
• Daring Thief to Devastation Tide
• Chromeshell Crab to Illusionist's Gambit
• Switcheroo to Reins of Power
• Brass Knuckles to Copy Enchantment
• Crashing Drawbridge to Mirrormade
• Rogue's Passage to Island
• Misleading Signpost to Illusory Ambusher - signpost is to expensive for what it does
• Nanogene Conversion to Stunt Double - With no tokens to mass produce a creature, it's not very useful
• Sakashima the Impostor to Vizier of Many Faces - No copies no this card can be made, so not that useful, no need to recopy a creature to trigger etb
• Inquisitor's Flail to High Tide
• Island to Hydroelectric Specimen  
• Island to Jwari Disruption  
• Island to Beyeen Veil  
• Island to Silundi Vision   - Adding all the MDFC's that it makes sense to add
• Blade of Selves to Winter's Chill
• Fireshrieker to Mirror Match
• Gavel of the Righteous to Sunstone
• All Island to All Snow-Covered Island
• Legerdemain to Modify Memory - I would prefer the +3 draw if I'm using this card in a defensive role, works for strat otherwise

Makes deck cheaper, but removes non-legendary copy tech

• Auton Soldier to See Double
• Helm of the Host to Mirrorhall Mimic  
• Quantum Misalignment to Copycrook
• Spark Double to Saheeli's Artistry
• Spectral Deluge to Domineering Will - deluge to expensive T_T

Change V1 - 2025-02-13 Show

I like some of the ideas, but this is still janky as all hell. Need to lower the mana curve drastically. Need significantly more Aggro... rebuild as an Aggro deck? Now, that's actually an interesting idea....

1 mana hitters

• Hypnotic Grifter
• Jace's Phantasm - yas queen
• Ingenious Prodigy - scalable
• K-9, Mark I
• Merfolk Windrobber
• Ruin Crab - mill good lots of lands
• Sleep-Cursed Faerie - good stat line
• Spyglass Siren
• Triton Shorestalker - unblockable
• Vortex Elemental - interesting defence, I like
• Wingcrafter - soulbond flying
• Delver of Secrets   - good stat flyer creature
• Gudul Lurker - unblockable
• Cloudfin Raptor - evolve
• Caller of Gales - gives flying
• Cosi's Trickster - bigger if green and tutors are in play

2 mana hitters

• Brokers Veteran
• Balduvian Conjurer
• Azure Beastbinder
• Avalanche Caller
• Aven Courier
• Archmage's Newt
• Alluring Siren
• Cloud of Faeries
• Coralhelm Commander
• Coralhelm Guide
• Crashing Drawbridge
• Curie, Emergent Intelligence
• Cyberman Patrol
• Chronatog

4 mana hitters

• Amphin Mutineer - 2 for 1
• Assassin Den - give unblockable
• Awakened Amalgam - buff per unique land
• Enduring Curiosity - expensive combat draw
• Eon Frolicker - 5/5 but extra turn
• Faerie Artisans - get etb
• Floodgate - interesting boardwipe, blocker
• Charix, the Raging Isle - island big
• Chronozoa - duplicates every 3 turns, not good unless remove counter
• Clammy Prowler - on attack, another unblockable, but not unblockable itself, bad
• Clinquant Skymage - +1/+1 on draw
• Conundrum Sphinx - 4/4 fly, can get islands off top
• Copycrook - copy with connive
• Corsairs of Umbar - unblockable and amass 3 good
• Curator of Mysteries - scry, not good
• Deadeye Quartermaster - vehicle tutor, might be good idea to add some in
• Eluge, the Shoreless Sea - good, big off islands
• Canoptek Scarab Swarm - expensive token spam graveyard removal
• Golden Guardian   - 4/4 into mana sink
• Herald of Secret Streams - +1/+1 unblockable
• Inventive Iteration   - bounce, recover, into light stax creature
• Giggling Skitterspike - expensive mass damage
• Forgotten Creation - wheel every turn
• Iron Mastiff - decent damange
• Jace's Projection - +1/+1 per draw
• Long-Finned Skywhale - generic
• Malleable Impostor - copy
• Inversion Behemoth - flips attack and defense
• Quicksmith Spy - draw per turn
• Reef Worm - good, ever growing creature
• Reservoir Kraken - 6/6 that makes 1/1 unblockables
• Robobrain War Mind - as big as hand
• Myriad Construct - makes tokens
• Oneirophage - +1/+1 per draw
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation - hexproof and draw
• Phantasmal Dreadmaw
• Phantom Beast
• Phantasmal Dragon
• Phantom Steed
• Mistfire Adept - give flying
• Mu Yanling, Wind Rider - flying and combat draw to vehicles
• Minas Tirith Garrison - power equal to hand
• Shadow Kin - copy opponents mill
• Sphinx of Forgotten Lore - recast spells
• Sphinx of Foresight - scry
• Stoic Sphinx - 5/3
• Surgespanner - bounce for 2
• Thassa, Deep-Dwelling - good stat line, but $20
• Toothy, Imaginary Friend - +1/+1 per draw
• Whirler Rogue - give unblockable
• Twenty-Toed Toad - alt vic
• Unstable Shapeshifter - copy recent creatures
• Vedalken Humiliator - turns all creatures into 1/1
• Vedalken Archmage- draw per artifact
• Viseling - pain if more than 4 cards
• Wizards of Thay
• Zephyr Singer - give flying
• Wonder - gives flying

The good ones

• Jace's Phantasm
• Ingenious Prodigy - maybe
• Ruin Crab
• Hedron Crab
• Vortex Elemental
• Delver of Secrets  
• Azure Beastbinder
• Avalanche Caller
• Curie, Emergent Intelligence
• Crashing Drawbridge
• Alluring Siren
• Charix, the Raging Isle
• Floodgate
• Clinquant Skymage
• Conundrum Sphinx
• Corsairs of Umbar
• Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• Golden Guardian  
• Iron Mastiff
• Reef Worm
• Oneirophage
• Phantasmal Dreadmaw
• Phantom Beast
• Phantasmal Dragon
• Phantom Steed
• Shadow Kin
• Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• Viseling
• Zephyr Singer
• Wonder

Change V0 2024-03-12 Show

Switch out

Clone

• Rite of Replication to Shadow Kin
• Saheeli's Artistry to Viseling
• See Double to Crashing Drawbridge
• Stunt Double to Charix, the Raging Isle
• Vizier of Many Faces to Clinquant Skymage
• Copycrook to Conundrum Sphinx
• Irenicus's Vile Duplication to Corsairs of Umbar
• Mirrorhall Mimic   to Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Goad

• Bloodthirsty Blade to Jace's Phantasm
• Coveted Peacock to Iron Mastiff
• Laser Screwdriver to Azure Beastbinder
• Maeve, Insidious Singer to Oneirophage
• Mocking Doppelganger to Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• Psychic Impetus to Curie, Emergent Intelligence
• Renegade Silent to Zephyr Singer
• Sly Instigator to Wonder

Gain Control

• Coveted Falcon to Avalanche Caller
• Djinn of Infinite Deceits to Phantasmal Dragon
• Tempt with Reflections to Golden Guardian  

boardwipe

• Sunstone to Spectral Deluge
• Winter's Chill to The Phasing of Zhalfir

Mana rocks

• Midnight Clock to Ruin Crab
• Sky Diamond to Hedron Crab

Post category changes

• Curie, Emergent Intelligence to Ingenious Prodigy - curie only works on artifact creatures
• Beyeen Veil   to Island

New potential additions to add / directions

• Open Into Wonder
• Levitation
• Archetype of Imagination - a couple of mass evasion spells for an aggro strategy
• Tempest Caller - Instead of mass evasion, tap down a single opponent to swing hard, look for other single tappers as well
• Thassa, God of the Sea - solid evasion adder
• Octavia, Living Thesis - interesting direction to swing the deck to
• Kiora, the Rising Tide
• Silent Hallcreeper
• Flood
• The Blackstaff of Waterdeep - not that good, only targets nontoken artifacts

Consider a change to a merfolk startegy, more evasion, more buffs

https://moxfield.com/decks/RjUT4cAjzU-bnqS69N1pwQ

• Coralhelm Commander - anthem
• Draka Mystic - everyone draws or mills
• Emperor Mihail II - token gen, top card play
• Expedition Lookout - beefy stats
• Fallowsage - draw
• Harbinger of the Tides - bounce
• Kopala, Warden of Waves - proctection
• Lord of Atlantis - Anthem, islandwalk
• Master of the Pearl Trident - Anthem, islandwalk
• Merfolk Looter - loot
• Merfolk Soveriegn - Anthem, evasion
• Merfolk Trickster - tap down creature
• Merrow Harbinger - merfolk tutor
• Merrow Rejeerey - anthem, tap
• Metallic Mimic - Anthem
• Mist-Cloaked Herald - evasive
• Silvergill Adept - draw
• Stonybrook Bannerat - 1 mana cheaper merfolk
• Tempest Caller - tap all creatures
• Thieving Skydiver - take sol ring
• Tidebinder Mage - tap down red or green
• Tide Shaper - enemy land to island for islandwalk
• Tideshaper Mystic
• Triton Shorestalker - evasive
• Voliadian Hexcatcher - anthem, counterspell
• Wake Thrasher - big off of tapped stuff
• Distant Melody - draw spell
• Filter Out - boardwipe for artifacts
• Deeproot Pilgramage - token gen
• Deeproot Waters - token gen
• Merrow Commerce - untap merfolk
• Reflections of Littaja - copy
• Spreading Seas - land to island
• Adaptive Automation - anthem

scrap

Clone

1x Copy Enchantment (RVR) 1x Mirrormade (DSC)

Give Control

1x Sudden Substitution (C19) 1x Spawnbroker (RAV)

Ramp

1x Arcane Signet (DSC) 1x Fellwar Stone (DSC) 1x Mind Stone (DSC)

Buff

1x Wonder (MH2) 1x Zephyr Singer (MOM)

Beater

1x Avalanche Caller (J22) 1x Azure Beastbinder (BLB) 1x Charix, the Raging Isle (ZNR) 1x Clinquant Skymage (FDN) 1x Conundrum Sphinx (C18) 1x Corsairs of Umbar (LTC) 1x Crashing Drawbridge (CMM) 1x Eluge, the Shoreless Sea (BLB) 1x Golden Guardian (RIX) 1x Hedron Crab (MYS1) 1x Iron Mastiff (CLB) 1x Jace's Phantasm (MYS1) 1x Oneirophage (J25) 1x Phantasmal Dragon (MYS1) 1x Ruin Crab (ZNR) 1x Shadow Kin (MIC) 1x Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (FDN) 1x Viseling (C13)

Draw

1x Illusory Ambusher (BLC)

Date added	6 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Foretell, Merfolk 1/1 U, Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof, Phyrexian 2/2 B