MTG Salvation

I am taking a millatron deck to a lgs for fnm tonight. this is the deck I am running.



I will post how I do tomorrow

Has anyone tryied using the urza lands to power cards like Sands of Delirium or Increasing Confusion?

6 mana is a whole lot and the tokens enter the battlefield tapped. So I'm not so sure.

I agree that the 6 mana can be alot but I have not had an issue with mana as much as needed that one or two more turns to empty the other deck. The blockers could be nice to delay death. Also, the tokens do not come into play tapped so they can block right away.

any thoughts about Rise From the Tides from SOI. With all the instants and sorceries in the deck, this seems like a way to protect yourself from creatures.

Hide // Seek does a good job on against one ofs. Using Tormod's Crypt or Ravenous Trap works well in response to them hitting the gy. Surgical Extraction does a good job to make sure that it only messes with you once. Outside of that we have NOTHING to deal with eldrazi or the blessing

I watched Sphinx's Tutelage mill about 20 cards off an abzan deck in standard. And that was off the draw step. IMO Sphinx's Tutelage is about as reliable as Mind Funeral. It gives 2 cards off per turn, not the best but recurring.

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How about maindeck Leyline of the Void and Day's Undoing? This would keep us up while they have every time less and less resources.

Also gets around the Eldrazi and Gaea's blessing or other graveyard to library effects

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I actually prefer the aggro route, because opponents rarely expect it.

My list runs phantasmal images, which gives you 8 crabs, or 8 Phantasms. Which is what we need.

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Land (23) 2x Bloodstained Mire 2x Darkslick Shores 2x Flooded Strand 2x Ghost Quarter 4x Island 4x Polluted Delta 3x Shelldock Isle 2x Swamp 2x Watery Grave	Creature (14) 4x Hedron Crab 4x Jace's Phantasm 4x Phantasmal Image 2x Undead Alchemist Instant (11) 4x Archive Trap 3x Crypt Incursion 4x Visions of Beyond Artifact (4) 4x Mesmeric Orb Sorcery (8) 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable 4x Mind Funeral	Sideboard (15) 1x Crypt Incursion 2x Dispel 3x Extirpate 4x Set Adrift 4x Sun Droplet 1x Thoughtseize

I am not a fan of the competition between Crypt Incursion and Undead Alchemist. I do like the Phantasmal Image. I would use breaking in place of the incursion MD. Thats just me. Over all I like the aggro approach, it is not something that people see coming.

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If mill is not competitive in modern at the moment, what is it lacking?

Easy: it lacks cards that mill. There is not a single creature that attacks and mill for example. There is no card that mills 9 cards for 1 mana (lightining bolt 3 damage for 1 mana...)

It is not cheap to play but there is Nemesis of Reason. But otherwise you are correct the closest thing you get to the "Lightning bolt" for mill is Glimpse the Unthinkable or Mind Sculpt.

Any thoughts on how to get around Gaea's Blessing or Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. I have no Surgical Extraction so I found Ravenous Trap. I want to make sure that it will work. Also would popping a Tormod's Crypt work?

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random thought crossed my mind as I was looking through my cards. Any thoughts on Avatar of Woe. I am sorry if this was brought up earlier in this primer.

Oh...I like!
I don't follow this deck real closely (not planning on building outside of mtgo atm), but this idea really intrigues me! Would love to hear more thoughts on it.
Nice idea Jay

Thank you, it is hard to argue with a 6/5 for two with creature removal

random thought crossed my mind as I was looking through my cards. Any thoughts on Avatar of Woe. I am sorry if this was brought up earlier in this primer.