The ultimate mill deck on Arena.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena deck tech & gameplay with a Blue/Black or Dimir mill deck, featuring Glimpse the Unthinkable, Archive Trap and Surgical Extraction from Outlaws of Thunder Junction in Timeless.
Patreon: / legenvd
00:00 - Deck Tech
03:14 - Match 1
07:13 - Match 2
12:44 - Match 3
20:54 - Match 4
22:55 - Match 5
26:41 - Match 6
31:03 - Match 7
Decklist:
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"Movement Proposition" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Opponent spamming the snooze emoji like they aren't voluntarily playing in the strongest format on Arena lmao
@user-il5td2fi1c
Ай бұрын
Because they’re playing a cool reanimating strategy versus something that you literally can’t interact with since it’s BO1. Facing combo is basically a non-game.
@MongoTheMagnificent666
Ай бұрын
@@user-il5td2fi1c found the guy 😴😴😴😴😴😴
@loam4187
Ай бұрын
@@user-il5td2fi1cthat’s why timeless is a meme format
@ryanwesneski5359
Ай бұрын
Mill suuuuuucks
@JME2191
Ай бұрын
It's always a good laugh when an opponent spams. Just take the L, say good game, and concede. It's not that serious
I don't know if you've played surgical before but it can be nice to wait for their draw step to use it since they might draw a copy of what you're extracting
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Yeah good call, it's been a while!
@Raghetiel
Ай бұрын
Is there a time to response between draw and main phase?
@squizioo1098
Ай бұрын
@@Raghetielyou can act during upkeep
@Dupernerd
Ай бұрын
@@squizioo1098Upkeep comes before draw step. But yes, you have an opportunity to cast spells between their draw and their main phase.
@frazerman1
Ай бұрын
@Raghetiel yes each player has the opportunity to gain priority after the draw but before the first main
I love match 5 opponent's deck, just a 5 color saga deck in timeless. living their best life over there.
I had a play set of Glimpse the Unthinkable back when it first came out. ...I was not a popular kid at school, lols.
@davestier6247
Ай бұрын
Lol
@ERealslimshady
Ай бұрын
Still better than land hate. I’m a new gen magic player and just learned they use to print black cards that are also land hate.
@AutkastKain
Ай бұрын
Gotta keep the goofy decks honest with some mill amirite
@HarverTheSlayer
Ай бұрын
Oh, you're not alone, mate. I had a control mill deck when I was a teenager, with crabs, Glimpse, Traps and Traumatize to mill, and Propaganda and counterspells to keep aggro decks at bay. Needless to say, it was traumatic indeed.
@kek8695
Ай бұрын
@@ERealslimshadyyeah baby sinkhole is an awesome card
I had a Tasha’s Hideous Laughter hit for 34 once. It was sick. It was against a mono red deck whose curve stopped at 1. 😂😂😂😂
@dipian
5 күн бұрын
Mono red decks with 1 drops that's my style of deck
@AkodoNoEyes
5 күн бұрын
@@dipian it was sick. I’m old. Like been playing since Beta old. I remember when Sligh//Geeba was invented and people started to build decks on a curve. It was mostly 1 drops. With some 2 drops. 4-6 3 drops. 2-4 4 drops and 2 Xspells for the finish.
I like the new animation when you draw from an empty library.
@zephyroswest3823
Ай бұрын
I think the skull is a bit gratuitous, but the blue/black swirls are cool
Personally, I've been playing with thr new Jace in mill. Plotting Maddening Cacophany and casting mill half for 4 mana is pretty good. Not to mention just plotting Tasha's, and the combo Jace has with Leyline of Anticipation.
with scheming symmetry from M20 you can force them to search their library while getting a copy of the archive trap so you can maybe mill for x times 13 on turn 1
@Readceras
Ай бұрын
The scheming symmetry, trapmaker's snare & mission briefing build was pretty spicy. Maybe some day they'll add merchant scroll to arena.
Great video. Nice set of games, fun deck and informative commentary. Top quality as always.
Surgical Extraction is a fantastic spell to use for those pesky Gaea's Blessing cards that totally shut down mill decks. As soon as one triggers, cast it before it's effect resolves and you wipe ALL copies of it to prevent players from getting their graveyards back into their library. Things like Tormod's Crypt work well for that also but not many people use it that often Edit: Tasha's Hideous Laughter is a massively underrated card also as it lets you nuke their cards into exile rather than the graveyard, thus avoiding the dreaded Gaea's Blessing triggers. I have 2 copies of Gaea's Blessing in my W/G/U deck that I play on Arena and the number of mill deck players that I've seen instantly scoop the second that I get my graveyard back with Gaea's Blessing is astounding. It's so immensely satisfying seeing half my library in the GY one turn and then getting it all back the next. Although the opposite is true when they blast me with Tasha's and I lose both copies to exile. At that point I'm the one who scoops immediately
@KimahEye
Ай бұрын
3 mana Ashiok is also pretty funny, Gaea's animation starts playing out like the cards are gonna go into the library, but then Ashiok's effect puts it all in exile before it can resolves. Gaea's Blessing spells doom for mill decks, but everytime it's put in exile the opponents scoops immediately
@TheAlmightyGoiter
Ай бұрын
You can also use stifle to stop blessing and it pulls double duty hitting fetch lands.
Timeless is such an interesting format
I’d like to take the time to appreciate the breaking news flavor text. For example “ dead horse deliverers beating”
I'd love to find a deck like this when I'm playing my silly mushroom deck that revolves around milling myself
23:50 My Arakis...My Dune...
Yessss love the mill. Used to hate it so much but then I just embraced it. Still way cooler, more interactive and simply better than that endless Capenna landspam deck from Standard 🤣
Who hurt you ....?
@kevincastner4541
Ай бұрын
Show us where the bad man milled you
@AesirOdinn
Ай бұрын
My man here has never been milled before
Love me a good mill deck
Always a good day for Mill.
Oh HELLS yes!!! I don't even like mill, but all is fair in a hyper strong format like Timeless. This deck is lethal and DISGUSTING and I love it! Evil Luca is back in the house y'all!!! 😂😄🤘
Orcish Bowmaster be like: "LOOKS LIKE MILL IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!" xD
I love mill it's so much fun. Also, love how you didn't acknowledge the person spamming the snooze emote at all can't give them the satisfaction.
interesting list, thanks for the video
Really like playing this kind of deck in bo3 with some thoughseize, couple of bounce spells for white leylines, cheap counterspells and the surgicals on the sideboard with some more card draw in the main. Really like the manabase, will copy it lol. Great video as always
RAAAAHH WE LOVE TIMELESS GAMEPLAY
Let's jump in some games and see how da deck doz!
@Big_Dai
Ай бұрын
Into*
big mill fan. love it!
What cards do you recomend for bo3?
Mill players rise up!
Love me some mill!
I want you to do a brawl deck with oko or a standard either one no one seems to do any 😢😢😢
No Prismatic Vista to go with crab?
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
There's other fetches we can play, but there's only so much room.
@Gnilson5
Ай бұрын
@@LegenVDYeah that makes sense. It was the 4-of Field of Ruin that made me ponder
I want to archive trap with the rebound god.
The OTP cards are cool and all but you sure can't tell the colour identity of many of them without knowing or looking really hard (I wasn't familiar with i.e. surgical extraction and wouldn't know without the tooltip). Must be a super pain in paper.
I would have punched my screen after that game 1 top decks...
Crazy mirror match at the end 😵💫
Ah mill… the only thing worse than counter spells. Blue, the color of sadness
@zirilan3398
19 күн бұрын
The colour of no friends
All but the lands, you could make this exact same deck in Historic. Why not play it there instead?
@LegenVD
20 күн бұрын
Fetchlands enable our crab and we rely on opponents having them for Archive Trap.
what formats can this be played ?
@stefanoriva1738
Ай бұрын
Timeless
I just got back onto Arena because of Legend and got my butt kicked in a draft... luckily my duct tape mono green standard deck still works :,D
I like good sportsmanship, but I would never gg someone who counters literally everything you try to play.
I think you couldn't play Archive Trap because there was nothing to play "in response" since the library searching happens after the cycling resolves
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Normally you still have priority before the turn ends. Arena will usually skip over it to save time unless you put a stop, although they've programmed a lot of cards to still hold priority if you can cast them for free, which sadly wasn't the case here.
why timeless instead of historic? Looks like its all valid in historic except the fetch lands?
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Fetchlands are a big part of what enables Archive Trap.
Quick tip: if you put a stop in your own endstep while the opponent's spell or ability is on the stack, you'll always get priority afterwards.
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
I shouldn't have to.
Why not brainstorm or mana drain??
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Those are indeed options. Brainstorm does get punished by the omnipresent Orcish Bowmasters and in some of the faster games you don't always have time to cast a bunch of cantrips. Mana Drain is great, but the way this deck is configured we often want to tap out in our own turn, so keeping up double blue isn't always easy. I would certainly want some more counterspells in the 75 for combo and control matchups so we can swap them for removal.
Is there a reason that the Fallout stuff wasn't added to online?
@jannikwinkelmann2050
Ай бұрын
Its commander, legacy and vintage only.
Cycling is just a draw, not a search effect.
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Swampcycling is a search.
@ryanbolson23
Ай бұрын
@@LegenVD ah ok, I only heard “cycling” since the video was in my pocket as I work 8-5. Of which cycling isn’t a search.
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
@@ryanbolson23 Indeed, I even added a little popup to emphasize the Swampcycling, but you wouldn't have seen it.
I'll never understand why people dont like mill. Its just burn, a check on the format. If you're too slow you lose.
@zirilan3398
19 күн бұрын
The reason is very simple: it`s easier to prevent damage or regain life than it is to prevent mill or regain cards in your library. Just by playing you lose cards in your library which is not the case for lifepoints. I personally have a inherit hate towards all non-combo-mill-players (combo-mill beeing things like Painter/Grindstone, RiP/Helm of Obedience) cause every single time I got paired against a millplayer in a competitive encounter it was always the greasiest, most foul smelling dude with a disgust for soup you could find. I have yet to encounter a millplayer who is pleasant to play against.
@kaemonbonet4931
19 күн бұрын
@@zirilan3398 you can beat mono red without playing life Gain. And mill is usually slower than that
@Clint_Beastwood
12 күн бұрын
@@kaemonbonet4931 Yeah but mono red players are chiseled with amazing jawlines and they usually show you pictures of all the girls they've been with on their phone immediately after they pass their 4 second turn.
@napoearth
18 сағат бұрын
Because like everything blue, it just tries to prevent you from playing your own cards. That's not fun. It's actually quite simple to understand.
@kaemonbonet4931
11 сағат бұрын
@@napoearth but every deck wants you to not play your cards. Either you're hoping to get an insurmountable lead before the cards are useful, or you're trying to put together some value that engine that makes their cards worthless, or you're ignoring what they're doing and pulling a big fuckoff gun. That's aggro/tempo, mid-range/control , ramp/combo. There's "I win" decks and "you lose" decks and both want the same thing. None of the opponents cards getting chance to mess up their plan. What it comes down to for me is do you enjoy the game or do you enjoy navel gazing. It's one of the reasons I don't like commander as much as literally any other format. Commander is all about ignoring each other as opposed to 60 card formats where it's important to sculpt your interaction around the things happening in the meta. I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes you lose to burn. the experience is the same as losing to mill. Sometimes you lose to control, it feels the same as losing to mill. No matter what you lose to You took a slow hand, they had some good pieces and got started before you could get to killing them. Eventually you have to either build your deck to do better in the matchup or accept that the deck beats yours and move on.
you get me every time.. i start watching the video and get more and more confused the more cards i see until i finally realize "its NOT standard" ... it would be realy great if you could add the format on the thumbnail.. thx
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
I mention the format within the first 5 seconds. It's also written in the video description.
@LashlayDS9
Ай бұрын
@@LegenVD ya maybe its my own fault. i always skip directly to the gameplay. the detailed explanation of every card is a bit too dry for my taste... personal opinion, nothing to worry about. just a little suggestion, a single letter would be enough. S or E. edit: i see the problem, when i skip your Intro scene by pressing the right arrow key once, it skips in 5 second increments.. that brings me right behind the mentioning of the format... thats a habbit of mine for a long time already.. i never watch channel logo intros or the mandatory hello for the viewer. most channels are doing that and of course thats just social protocol but it's not of interest to me, at least not more then once per channel.
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
@@LashlayDS9 I did this when Historic and Standard were the main formats on Arena by adding a special border around the thumbnail for Historic videos, nowadays there are way too many formats. Adding a symbol or letter would add unneeded clutter to the thumbnail and most people wouldn't know what it stands for.
@xddddddddddddd
Ай бұрын
@@LegenVDmini ribbon on top right might work?
MILL DECK???? Free like.
Luckily I play MtG only online, otherwise lots noses of mill players would have "interesting shapes", not to mention their kneecaps! xD
@LegenVD
Ай бұрын
Haha, violence!
So, this is what cancer looks like from the other side😂
Where's the free mill. You pay for almost all. I thought You create a deck where you mill all for free.
@LegenVD
13 күн бұрын
Archive Trap is the big one, having everything be free wouldn't be very reasonable.
@ciesma6381
13 күн бұрын
@@LegenVD One card is your free mill?.
@LegenVD
13 күн бұрын
@@ciesma6381 You could argue that Surgical Extraction is too, and even Ruin Crab after an initial investment. But Trap and Surgical are the only new cards for the archetype introduced in the latest set. There are various combo decks can mill an entire deck for "free" with the right interactions, but you wouldn't really refer to them as mill decks.
@ciesma6381
13 күн бұрын
@@LegenVD I understand, but if You put a title: Free Mill (That means that all is for free). I supposed that You Will play a card that gives You the Power to mill for free in the rest of the Match, but you "create" a deck that is a copy of something that I already played vs a lot of times. That what i'm talking about. Where is your creativity?.
@LegenVD
13 күн бұрын
@@ciesma6381 I made this deck when the set just came out, so nobody was playing with these cards yet at the time. Doesn't surprise me that this strategy has picked up in popularity since. Sounds like your interpretation is having a copy of Omniscience on the battlefield, easy to accomplish with Show and Tell, but at that point there are better ways to win the game.
I immediately concede to mill. Its not interesting or fun. Its a solitaire goldfish deck, go play against the computer and stop wasting people's time
@ieldarb12
28 күн бұрын
Lmfao nice opinions, do you cry when people play “paper” in “rock, paper, scissors”?
@Derpy_fish63
27 күн бұрын
Skill issue
@gabriels1163
27 күн бұрын
@@Derpy_fish63 That is the problem. A game vs mill leaves both players in the position of playing a game of solitaire that requires zero skill. Goldfishing just isnt a good use of time.