Strange Anti-Mill Challenge

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Posted on April 19, 2013, 9:19 a.m. by DancesWithGoblins

We all know how popular Dimir mill has become recently with the new cards, how time for some inventive anti-mill.

Your objective: Build a working deck using Colfenor's Plans to make mill irrelevant. Set limit: Modern. Card limit: 60.

Remember: A mill deck only wins if you attempt to draw from an empty library.

wreckedd says... #2

Laboratory Maniac the best anti mill card ever printed.

April 19, 2013 9:35 a.m.

Devonin says... #3

It doesn't make mill irrelevant. Once milled, you won't lose by drawing during your draw step since Colfenor's Plans skips your draw step, but your opponent can certainly play any spell or ability that makes you draw a card to make you lose anyway.

April 19, 2013 9:39 a.m.

Yes wreckedd, but that's not really much of a challenge

And I guess you're right Devonin, but quite a few Dimir mill decks don't have forced draw because they're focusing on mill. If I could edit my post, I'd change it to "make mill far less effective". Would that suit you better?

April 19, 2013 9:50 a.m.

Blakkhand says... #5

just run Maralen of the Mornsong , then you absolutely cannot draw.

April 19, 2013 10:38 a.m.

Rayenous says... #6

That would stop all drawing... but the first card they would search for would be removal.

April 19, 2013 11:05 a.m.

Rayenous says... #7

Some concepts that might work well...

Cipher/Flashback cards or effects like Nightveil Specter 's , so you don't need to draw to have spells to cast.

Perhaps splash in ways to return Colfenor's Plans to you hand, so you can recast, and get a new 7 cards. (of course that permanently loses any remaining from the previous 7)

The "only one spell per turn" is probably worse than the "skip your draw"... there are a number of ways to draw cards. Underworld Connections would work well, especially against mill, as you should be able to afford the life.

April 19, 2013 11:16 a.m.

DarkHero says... #8

April 19, 2013 1:35 p.m.

Sigh. This isn't about the best cards to stop mill, this is about building a working deck about Colfenor's Plans , that's what the challenge is. If you don't want to do the challenge, don't post.

April 19, 2013 1:43 p.m.

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