Self mill staples?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on March 22, 2015, 11:58 a.m. by MagicalHacker
Ignoring the conversation of how grave hate can blow out self mill decks, what are the best self mill cards from your experience? For me, the best is Mesmeric Orb. (Looking for cards of all colors, not just blue, black, or green... But those too.)
I'm actually a huge fan of an early game Hedron Crab as well
March 22, 2015 1:58 p.m.
jandrobard says... #6
Altar of Dementia is very good in my experience if you have things to sac.
March 22, 2015 4:38 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #8
Just to let you guys know, I'm wondering because of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. That means I've only got one suggestion that's relevant to that haha xD
March 22, 2015 10:30 p.m.
joriiiii12345 says... #9
two, to be exact ;)
Altar of Dementia and Buried Alive, the latter being very interesting in what you're trying to do.
March 22, 2015 10:56 p.m.
Unfortunately in those colors MagicalHackerI'm pretty certain the only self-mill thing you get is basically Altar of Dementia. However, you get the awesome 
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discard outlets and reanimator things like Entomb, Wheel of Fortune, Gamble, Faithless Looting, Tormenting Voice AND you get other sac outlets like Sadistic Hypnotist and Viscera Seer to play "value ETBs/reanimator.dec"
March 23, 2015 1:25 a.m.
jprest2478 says... #14
Balustrade Spy fuels your graveyard in addition to being a target for Alesha's recursion ability.
March 24, 2015 3:41 p.m.
Deckologist says... #15
Hair-Strung Koto it's a hefty mana cost but it was nice when I ran self mill
lemmingllama says... #2
Hermit Druid, Traumatize, Mirror-Mad Phantasm, Fauna Shaman, Survival of the Fittest, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Jace, Memory Adept, Windfall (and all of the wheel effects that are discard and draw), Buried Alive, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Cephalid Illusionist, Deranged Assistant, Forbidden Alchemy, Mulch (and all the other "look at the top X cards, take 1 and mill the others), etc.
Really it just depends on what you want to do.
March 22, 2015 12:10 p.m.