need help with monoblue mill...

phatlee · Joined: 27 Feb 2012 Posts: 43

ok so i have it set in my mind that i HAVE to build a mono blue mill deck. this is what ive some up with but all it is IS mill, no control or draw support with it. i think it needs help. suggestion???

Lands:
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Nephalia Drownyard
8 Islands

Creatures:
2 Delver of the Secrets
4 Shriekgiest
4 Stern Mentor
4 Merfolk Mesmerist
3 Selhoff Occultist
3 Geralf's Mindcrusher

Planeswalkers:
2 Jace, Memory Adept

Spells:
4 Increasing Confusion
4 Dreadwaters
4 Dream Twist
4 Thought Scour
2 Curse of the Bloody Tomb

not really sure where to change this up at all. im thinking of just making my sideboard for this nothing but draw and control and switching into it as needed....

LuckyDucky · Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 165

I played a deck on mwsplay that used fog and clinging mist to stay alive. it used otherworld atlas, rite of flourishing, and Jace to mill.

MassO · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 260

Tamiyo's emblem with Tome Scour is gravy

Play it in a UWb shell with DoJ, BSZ, Lingering Souls, Think Twice, Forbidden Alchemy, Ob ring, Liliana, ect with spot removal

Timely in board with batterskull

Something like that.

By the time you get Tamiyo's emblem you will be at around 8 mana with at least 5 blue land.....that is 25 cards milled with 5 land.

Temporal Mastery is just great in this type of deck, if you happen to top deck it early, then it gets you ahead early, late game of the top allows you to either get the combo set up or combo out for 2 turns and win.

I know this is casual, so maybe alittle expensive, so in that case 3 of each Jace and Tamiyo with 3 Tome scour seems right.

Astarael · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 33

The problem with mill decks is that in order to be effective you pretty much can't run non-mill stuff (control, aggro etc) otherwise it just runs far too slow.

I experimented and built a Modern UB Mill which I'll post below (seeing as you run the darkslick shores perhaps you'd be willing to add some black?).

For mono blue there's still certain cards which are a must imo:

Archive Trap
Hedron Crab
Tome Scour

Onto the Modern UB Mill decklist I've settled with for now:

==LAND==
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Watery Grave
4 Drowned Catacomb
2 Island

==CREATURES==
4 Hedron Crab

==MILL==
4 Archive Trap
4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
4 Haunting Echoes
4 Memory Sluice
4 Mind Funeral
4 Mind Sculpt
4 Tome Scour

==CONTROL==
4 Dismember
2 Mana Leak

Hope that gives you some ideas!