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Whether it’s caused by eroding your memory, freezing your brain, dampening your thoughts, having your secrets drowned or your grimoire stolen, glimpsing the unthinkable, looting, brokering, or just being driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away, Milling is never a fun way to lose a game of Magic. But it sure is a great way to win a game of Magic! If you can get it to work, that is.
In this episode, which is brought to you with one more Polar Kraken than usual, we’re going to take a long, hard look at being run out of cards. We have three decks that each win by depleting your opponents’ libraries, albeit each one does so in its own particular fashion, which you can see further down in the show notes. Different colors go about milling in different ways, and we’ll cover all the ones that come to us. Keep an ear out for a lively biological discussion about the classification similarities and disparities between crustaceans and cephalopods. And no, I’m not making that up.
Dirk’s Milling Deck
Creatures:
Drift of Phantasms x3
Soratami Mindsweeper x2
Lore Broker x4
Belltower Sphinx x4
Blizzard Specter x2
Vedalken Entrancer x4
Thought Courier x1
Lurking Informant x4
Artifact:
Millstone x2
Enchantment:
Seal of Doom x4
Instant/Sorcery:
Last Gasp x3
Psychic Drain x4
Glimpse the Unthinkable x3
Lands:
Swamps x8
Islands x8
Dimir Aqueduct x4
Brian’s Milling Deck
10:Plains
11:Island
2:Azorius Chancery
1:Boreal Shelf
4:Ink Dissolver
3:Drowner of Secrets
3:Fallowsage
3:Information Dealer
3:Silvergill Adept
2:Wandering Graybeard
1:Surgespanner
1:Stonybrook Schoolmaster
1:Grimoire Thief
1:Riptide Chronologist
4:Merrow Commerce
3:Memory Sluice
2:Forced Fruition
2:Pemmin’s Aura
2:Summon the School
1:Hoofprints of the Stag
Mike’s Squid (Mollusc?) Alarm
Land (22)
15: Island
2: Cephalid Coliseum
2: Saprazzan Skerry
2: Sveylunite Temple
1: Shelldock Isle
Creature (14)
2: Cephalid Broker
2: Cephalid Looter
2: Chronozoa
2: Riptide Shapeshifter
1: Arcanis the Omnipotent
1: Isleback Spawn
1: Magus of the Future
1: Murkfiend Liege
1: Polar Kraken
1: Tidespout Tyrant
Non-Creature (24)
4: Accumulated Knowledge
4: Rune Snag
4: Serum Visions
4: Wistful Thinking
2: Capsize
2: Feldon’s Cane
2: Homarid Spawning Bed
2: Intruder Alarm
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