[Standard][Opinions] Dimir Mill/Kill

invisible stalker might be a good addition to the deck, or as a replacement to the Deathcult rogue. It is both cheaper than The rogue and has hex proof to prevent removal. Encoding it will allow your aberrations to keep on milling your opponent. I might be wrong as I'm absolutely new to this game. Jus started a month .

Open up a trade with me. I've got all the C/UC stuff in standard in droves.

I can help you out

I really want blue/black mill to win in standard.  Consuming Aberration can actually make it happen, but you need to survive until he hits the table.

Invisible Stalker paired up with cards like Hands of Binding and Paranoid Delusions can go a really long way in working towards both goals of surviving and milling.  Psychic Strike as well.

Dream Twist ensures early mill, with a late game come back (match one anyway..so much graveyard hate in standard).  You could replace this with Thought Scour though because drawing an extra card is pretty huge.

You are going to need to be largely defensive with only two win-cons, one being the Stalker with a few Cipher'd cards on him and the other being Consuming Aberration and Artful Dodge.  Blue does offer some good defense though, some cheap counters in the form of Dispel, Negate and Essence Scatter can really go a long way.  Black can give you cheap removal, Human Frailty because there are lots of humans out there and you could potentially pair this guy up with Tragic Slip to catch that non-human, and Ultimate Price to catch anything else.  Tribute to Hunger and Devour Flesh can help against hexproof stuff.

The Dimir Charm is an interesting card for a deck like this, but I feel that limiting it to only countering sorcery is going to hurt when someone plays a turn two Rest in Peace, that leaves you a removal option that is only viable early game and a mill that doesn't really compare to thought scour and dream twist.

So yeah that is my opinion, its definitely viable if you pair up Consuming Aberration and Artful Dodge.

Heavy on the defense though, which means mostly counters and removal.

Last edited by albonation (2013-02-25 15:17:47)

Mind Grind is also an effective mill in late game in my casual constructed games.

Nice discussion on this forum, glad I joined.

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Here is my build for a standard mill deck. There is enough removal to stall for enough mana to cast either a mind grind or to sideboard in Consuming Aberration. A card to look at is gridlock as it gives you the ability to tap as many of an opponents creatures as you need. Its good for stalling. The main combo in my deck is to put Whispering Madness on the Invisible Stalker so that every turn I can cycle my hand to get what I need. The elixir of immortality lets you do that and then put the stuff back into your library.

Running a mill deck is really fun and can hold its own against aggro if you include a enough removal. The best thing is to playtest and see what everyone at your LGS plays and then build to work around that.

Surely Wight of Precinct Six is made for this deck.

My 2 cents. I just like the card:)

srrogers1985,

Should that have read:
He is really bood as a blocker that most burn spells or tragic slip can torch?  I'm not really sure I understand your reply here.  Are you saying that you like to play him only as a blocker, because he is so vulnerable to burn and removal?

Personally I left him out, because:
1. No evasion (flying, unblockable, hexproof, intimidate, etc).  He would be pretty easy to chump block and then you don't have a big blocker.
2. He can get big, but its dependent on two things, the mill working, and milling a buncha creatures into the opponents graveyard. 

Sure he is cheap to cast, but I found the drawbacks here to much.  Plus he doesn't enable the mill at all.  Perhaps he has a place in the Sideboard against rakdos and boros or any deck with lots of weenies?

Thanks,
Kaffieen