You want to slow down and disrupt your opponent’s game plan, and get into a longer game where mill spells and inevitability empty out the opposing library. In practice, Mill plays more like a blue-black (UB) control deck with combo and synergistic elements. On its surface, Modern Mill has a game plan similar to Burn, where you are trying to resolve a certain number of spells to run your opponent out of an in-game resource (life vs cards) as quickly as possible. Image credit: Kaja Foglio, Wizards of the Coast Personally, I’ve been playing Mill in Magic’s Modern format on and off ever since I got into the format in late 2013, and I still find myself coming back to the deck after all this time. Cards like Stroke of Genius, Brain Freeze, Nephalia Drownyard, and Grindstone have been centerpieces of noteworthy decks across multiple time periods and formats of Magic, all looking to run their opponents out of cards to draw. One of the earliest control decks in Magic, “The Deck”, could win via exiling its opponents’ creatures with Swords to Plowshares, reshuffling both players’ decks with Timetwister, and sitting back and waiting for its opponent to empty their now-smaller library first. This is commonly referred to as being “decked” or “milled out”, the latter term being derived from the card Millstone, the earliest example of a card designed to create such a game state.Įver since the printing of Millstone, winning via “milling” your opponent has enticed both casual players and seasoned pros. While most games end when one player’s life total is reduced to 0, a game can also end when one player tries to draw from an empty deck (“library” in game terms). A player who attempts to draw a card from a library with no cards in it loses the game the next time a player would receive priority.” – Magic: the Gathering comprehensive rules, written by Wizards of the Coast (WotC), updated 3 July 2020.Ī game of Magic: the Gathering can end for a few different reasons.
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