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Title: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 01:26:02 AM
I am working on a mill deck for modern that I want to actually be competative with but I can not get anything to be fast enough:(
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: Mattacheu on July 08, 2014, 05:30:22 AM
{mind funeral} as well as {mind crank}. {Jaces phantasm}. {mind shrieker} maybe?
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: InfinitiveDivinity on July 08, 2014, 07:57:13 AM
Quote from: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 01:26:02 AM
I am working on a mill deck for modern that I want to actually be competative with but I can not get anything to be fast enough:(
My list works.
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: DimirOverlord1300 on July 08, 2014, 08:39:21 AM
Lots of fetches, {Hedron crab}
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: Mattao19 on July 08, 2014, 09:32:38 AM
Go esper mill! I thought you already built it
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: Prplprince on July 08, 2014, 01:43:14 PM
If you have money  {Glimpse the Unthinkable} if not  {Breaking // Entering}
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: Spencer Addington on July 08, 2014, 01:50:49 PM
I've never seen a mill run it, but what about {ensnaring bridge}?
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 07:06:40 PM
Quote from: Mattao19 on July 08, 2014, 09:32:38 AM
Go esper mill! I thought you already built it
I have yours mostly built, but my land base is crap:/ and anytime I try to play test with fetches it mill is so slow
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 07:07:37 PM
Quote from: Spencer Addington on July 08, 2014, 01:50:49 PM
I've never seen a mill run it, but what about {ensnaring bridge}?
I have been thinking about that one a lot lately because someone has some I know.. I do like that
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 07:08:40 PM
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on July 08, 2014, 07:57:13 AM
Quote from: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 01:26:02 AM
I am working on a mill deck for modern that I want to actually be competative with but I can not get anything to be fast enough:(
My list works.
The deep sea milling? I have that one but right now I have been trying to see what else there is too. I do like that deck
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: DrainCleaner on July 08, 2014, 07:16:49 PM
 {Archive Trap} +opposing fetchlands or {Path to Exile} or {Ghost Quarter} = profit

Also 4 archive trap + opposing fetchland kills on turn 2 draw step
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: InfinitiveDivinity on July 08, 2014, 11:27:14 PM
Quote from: DrainCleaner on July 08, 2014, 07:16:49 PM
Also 4 archive trap + opposing fetchland kills on turn 2 draw step
And is more rare than the lochness monster, bigfoot, and megalodon sightings combined.
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: InfinitiveDivinity on July 08, 2014, 11:28:57 PM
Quote from: ibtrickey on July 08, 2014, 07:06:40 PM
Quote from: Mattao19 on July 08, 2014, 09:32:38 AM
Go esper mill! I thought you already built it
I have yours mostly built, but my land base is crap:/ and anytime I try to play test with fetches it mill is so slow
The manabase is easily the most important part of the deck. That may be where your deck is snagging up.
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: Mattao19 on July 09, 2014, 12:39:20 AM
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on July 08, 2014, 11:27:14 PM
Quote from: DrainCleaner on July 08, 2014, 07:16:49 PM
Also 4 archive trap + opposing fetchland kills on turn 2 draw step
And is more rare than the lochness monster, bigfoot, and megalodon sightings combined.

I dream and pray every night that Megladons still exist!!! Oh man I hope they do!!
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:)
Post by: ibtrickey on July 09, 2014, 03:27:58 AM
I need suggestions on mana base:/
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:
Post by: Mattao19 on July 09, 2014, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: ibtrickey on July 09, 2014, 03:27:58 AM
I need suggestions on mana base:/

Mine as of now is:

2 Mesa
2 Marsh
2 Verdant
4 Watery
2 Godless
2 Hallowed
2 Ghost 1/4
2 Shelldock
3 basics (1 of each(
2 Drowned catacomb
1 Isolated Chapel
Title: Re: Looking for modern mill ideas:
Post by: DeathlyFoiend on July 10, 2014, 08:42:56 PM
Quote from: Mattao19 on July 09, 2014, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: ibtrickey on July 09, 2014, 03:27:58 AM
I need suggestions on mana base:/

Mine as of now is:

2 Mesa
2 Marsh
2 Verdant
4 Watery
2 Godless
2 Hallowed
2 Ghost 1/4
2 Shelldock
3 basics (1 of each(
2 Drowned catacomb
1 Isolated Chapel

That mana base seems kind of shaky.
Here is one I suggest:

1 Darkslick Shore
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Island
1 Marsh Flats
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Swamp
3 Watery Grave

White should only be a splash and having the 1 of Marsh Searches for Watery Grave and the Basic Plains while the 6 Blue always search for Hallowed Fountain and Watery Grave. The Darkslick is reassurance and an extra BU source so you don't lose life.

3 Ghost Quarters is the best land destruction for mill and almost never lower unless you have a hard time casting spells. It can slow the opponent down off of needed sources for harder to cast Cryptic and Kikis. This way you draw it almost always, but you can't get a hand full of them 95% of the time. Never run more than 3 colorless lands unless you increase your land count.

Blue and Black are your most important colors, but blue is your most. You shouldn't run WB lands because of this.