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9 months ago  ::  Sep 27, 2012 - 10:34PM #1
Deafwolf
Date Joined: Sep 8, 2012
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So my deck creation, I can't seem to really hit it on the button just yet. My focus is to either
a) cause my opponent to mill his deck into his graveyard to win the game, or
b) mill 10+ cards early in the game to enhance jace's phantasm
Please share your thoughts via forum or message...

Using:
x4 jace's phantasm
x4 mind sculpt
x3 jace, memory adept
x2 sands of delirium

with alternate strategy being
x3 talrand, sky summoner
x4 talrand's invocation
x2 fungal sprouting or some other rapid token population
sideboard bonehoard for those creature decks
or go defensive with fog bank ?

mana ramping
x4 arbor elf
x4 avacyn's pilgrim
because birds of paradise are too expensive and soon to be ejected from STD play.

Toss in a few control spells
redirect
negate
vapor snag
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 28, 2012 - 8:07AM #2
BiggBaddBill
Date Joined: Aug 22, 2012
Posts: 478
Most mill decks are straight blue, right?

Curse of the Bloody Tome
Dreadwaters
Dream Twist
Increasing Confusion This one looks really good.

My thought is that if you dedicate to mill enough, the opponent won't have enough answers, and won't find many of them in their library for long.

 

   
   
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 28, 2012 - 11:25AM #3
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Well, there is blue/black mill/recursion. Most people don't just mill straight, though.

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9 months ago  ::  Sep 28, 2012 - 3:42PM #4
Deafwolf
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One problem in my play testing is the need for mana. Also, straight milling is slow unless Jace enters play. Then I have to defend him. The greatest enemy is the beat down deck I believe. Again, I need a better way to play test it.
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 29, 2012 - 9:27AM #5
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 29, 2012 - 11:52AM #6
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Bojuka Bog and Mind Funeral are great, also Sword of Body and Mind is really cheap now.
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 29, 2012 - 6:38PM #7
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8 months ago  ::  Sep 29, 2012 - 9:14PM #8
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Sep 29, 2012 -- 11:52AM, montoyafan33 wrote:

Bojuka Bog and Mind Funeral are great, also Sword of Body and Mind is really cheap now.




Thank you Montoyafan for the suggestions. But bojuka bog sets my jace's phantasm back to 1/1. the others sound good.

I see a lot of black suggestions. I'll try making an alternate blue/black.

Monored burn, thank you, but I do want STD legal

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