Trigger Blue

Pioneer Mill Mono-Blue

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Enchantment (16)

• 4x Drowned Secrets
• 1x Fate Foretold
• 1x Font of Fortunes
• 2x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Mirrormade
• 4x Omen of the Sea
• 2x Pin to the Earth
• 1x Riddleform

Land (21)

• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 11x Island
• 4x Mystic Sanctuary
• 2x Skyline Cascade

Creature (12)

• 4x Merfolk Secretkeeper
• 4x Ruin Crab
• 4x Sage of Mysteries

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer

Instant (6)

• 3x Didn't Say Please
• 3x Thought Collapse

Sorcery (4)

• 3x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Traumatize

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Hard Cover
• 1x Psychic Corrosion

Land (1)

• 1x Fabled Passage

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Hi There!

Trigger Blue is a Mono-Blue Pioneer Mill deck where the objective of this deck is to mill out your opponent primarily using Fraying Sanity to double the mill from Maddening Cacophony or Traumatize. Supporting this strategy is a mill through casting blue spells and getting enchantments on the battlefield using Drowned Secrets and Sage of Mysteries, respectively. This deck was built with the cards available.

The Ideal Gameplay

Turn 1: Play Sage of Mysteries to mill your opponent through putting enchantments on the battlefield.

Turn 2: Play Drowned Secrets to mill your opponent just by casting blue spells

Turn 3: Play Fraying Sanity

Turn 4: Play anything that can mill or triggers milling

Turn 5: Play Traumatize if you have Fraying Sanity on the battlefield. If not, play something that can mill.

Turn 6: Play a kicked Maddening Cacophony if you have Fraying Sanity on the battlefieled. If not, repeat Turns 3-5.

Triggers

I don't like depending on a single strategy to win. The variety in strategy here is more what is causing mill than the different ways to win. If a spell causes one set of cards to be removed from the deck, its not an immediate disaster. The four trigger cards are Drowned Secrets, Fraying Sanity, Rune Crab and Sage of Mysteries,

Dealing With The Weaknesses

Big creatures are dealt with through Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer, Pin to the Earth Skyline Cascade and a handful of blockers(Merfolk Secretkeeper, Ruin Crab and Sage of Mysteries) to slow them down. None of the creatures have any power, but the important thing is to buy time.

Graveyard hate is provided through the two copies of Ashiok, Dream Render.

Cards giving hexproof to opponents are outmaneuvered through Maddening Cacophony and Rune Crab because they don't target. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries allows for an alternate win strategy in the event Maddening Cacophony and Roil Crab can't do the job. That will be acheived by targeting myself for Fraying Sanity, then Traumatize if Jace, Wielder of Mysteries is still on the battlefield.

Everything else that can be thrown at me are dealt with using Didn't Say Please and Thought Collapse. Whatever can't be countered I'll have to depend on it getting milled. Since they're functional reprints its like having six copies of the same card.

Having only one or two copies of certain cards are dealt through card draw(Fate Fortold, Font of Fortunes, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Mu Yanling, Skydancer and Omen of the Seas), deck manipulation(Omen of the Seas and Riddleform), enchantment copy(Mirrormade) and interacting with my graveyard(Mystic Sanctuary).

Deckbuilding Notes

The Current plan is to shift my deck towards getting Psychic Corrosion and more copies of Mirrormade, and a full playset of Hard Cover will phase out Fate Fortold, Font of Fortunes, Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer, Pin To The Earth and Riddleform.

Well, that's it for this deck for now. I will post updates if and when they happen. If you have ideas to improve the deck please don't be afraid to leave a comment. In the mean time I hope this deck inspires you in some capacity.

God Bless!

Top Ranked	Achieved #84 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #4 position in Pioneer 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	B
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	63
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Elemental Bird 4/4 U, Emblem Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
Folders	Competitive Pioneer