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I have a friend who has two self-mill decks, one centered around splinterfright and another centered around lumberknot. How would I go about building a deck that specifically defeats those decks? I was thinking about using Tormod's Crypt from M13, but I haven't a clue as to how to beat the decks. Any ideas would be highly appreciated.

Cards like Barter in Blood get around Lumberknot 's hexproof. Trinket Mage is able to fetch Crypt among other useful things, though I'd recommend Relic of Progenitus since it draws you a card and can be used to constantly lock down his graveyard by tapping it. You can kill Splinterfright with your standard black and white removal spells usually, bounce and counters are options in blue, and Trinket Mage can even fetch Brittle Effigy which does the job. In white you can use something like Day of Judgment instead of Barter to deal with his hexproof guy. In blue another option is just to stick a Fog Bank in front of his creatures. Evasion like flying, intimidate, and shadow works for getting around the opposing creatures.

@raginggoblingrenade: I'm building a deck specifically targeting his self-mill decks. While I know it's not necessary, I want a specific deck built against self-mill.
@Sleeping: I don't exactly know what type of deck I'm running as of yet. That's one of the reasons why I made this thread. If anything, I want the deck to be fast, so red will probably make its way into the deck.

Lol @slave telling the newbie to play dredge...hahaha! Like that will fly.

And luluemon. Don't build a deck just to solely fight another one. That is super lame. Cuz then all he has to do is say switch to something like RDW and he will hose you. Build a deck that is actually good and can handle a self-mill deck with sideboard pieces. I'd recommend either a super fast aggro route or control.

First up-being new is totally fine-I didn't mean to offend you; if I have, my apologies.

I understand wanting to spite your friend and build the "anti" deck to his cuz you are tired of getting beaten. I'm telling you though, doing that severely limits your ability to grow and learn proper deck building.

Let me put it this way; you are limiting your own growth by taking the easy way out. It's EASY to build an anti-deck. Grab all the hate pieces you can and win. But like I said, you will lose when he switches decks because you are so finely tuned for 1 deck. You are also being REACTIVE instead of PROACTIVE.  Force him to play your game, to switch his plays for your end game, make him work for it.

Building a real deck that seeks to win, not "plays not to lose", is not hard and it sounds like you are on the path already with some of your other decks. So lets see what you are working with, say, with control (my favorite), and build a deck that not only beats his, but also beats other decks.

We can also do aggro, cuz it tends to be more budget friendly than control (if that's an issue)