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The Mindskninner - Low Power Mill

The Mindskinner Commander Deck

by TheJungleTurkey100 cards

The deck is a mono-blue voltron-mill hybrid built around The Mindskinner. The commander turns every point of damage its sources would deal to opponents into milling each opponent for that amount, so a single big hit mills the whole table. The list loads evasive and pumpable bodies with equipment, auras and hand-size scaling, so each connection mills dozens of cards, while graveyard-size payoffs and hate pieces keep milled cards from becoming a liability. How it wins: It empties every opponent's library at once by attacking with oversized, unblockable or flying threats, plus noncombat damage pings, all converted into table-wide mill, with Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubling the totals and combining with a kicked Maddening Cacophony to deck everyone outright. Key roles: - Damage multipliers: Equipment and auras inflate power on The Mindskinner or other evasive attackers, and double strike or stacking pumps turn one swing into a mill of most of a library. (Brass Knuckles, Blackblade Reforged, Octopus Umbra) - Hand-size scaling: Effects that remove the maximum hand size and big draw spells keep the hand full, which pumps creatures and equipment that grow with cards in hand. (Empyrial Plate, Body of Knowledge, Nerd Rage) - Evasive damage sources: Unblockable and flying creatures make sure damage connects. Noncombat damage triggers from vehicles and artifacts also become mill under the commander. (Invisible Stalker, Giggling Skitterspike, Knight Paladin) - Mill amplification and payoffs: A replacement effect doubles every mill. Supplemental mill pieces fuel threshold cards that grow, unlock attackers or get cheaper once opponents' graveyards fill up. (Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Maddening Cacophony, Into the Story) - Graveyard hate: Milling opponents feeds their graveyards, so these pieces stop opponents from recurring or casting what gets dumped. (Soulless Jailer, Silent Gravestone, Unlicensed Hearse) - Keeping the 1-toughness commander alive: Hexproof, ward, phasing and umbra armor shield a fragile 10/1, and tempo removal clears blockers or threats. (Swiftfoot Boots, Slip Out the Back, Eel Umbra)

The Mindskninner - Low Power Mill decklist

  • Lavaspur Boots
  • 34× Island
  • Flood of Tears
  • Reality Shift
  • Thieving Skydiver
  • Pongify
  • Hunted Phantasm
  • Hand of Vecna
  • Relic Golem
  • Blackblade Reforged
  • Soulless Jailer
  • Spectral Sailor
  • Silent Gravestone
  • Undead Alchemist
  • Keep Watch
  • Jace's Phantasm
  • Empyrial Plate
  • Solemn Simulacrum
  • Invisible Stalker
  • Thought Vessel
  • Military Intelligence
  • Octopus Umbra
  • Cryptic Coat
  • Unlicensed Hearse
  • Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
  • Esperzoa
  • Sleep-Cursed Faerie
  • Knight Paladin
  • Tome of Legends
  • Slip Out the Back
  • Brass Knuckles
  • Into the Story
  • Frantic Search
  • Sol Ring
  • Forebear's Blade
  • Body of Knowledge
  • Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • Resculpt
  • Vantress Gargoyle
  • All-Seeing Arbiter
  • Imprisoned in the Moon
  • Diluvian Primordial
  • Ruin Crab
  • Struggle for Project Purity
  • Pouncing Shoreshark
  • Arcane Signet
  • Siren Stormtamer
  • Defiler of Dreams
  • Giggling Skitterspike
  • Fellwar Stone
  • Nerd Rage
  • Mighty Servant of Leuk-o
  • Negate
  • Dreamtide Whale
  • Swiftfoot Boots
  • Tempest Djinn
  • Strata Scythe
  • Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • Kefnet the Mindful
  • Maddening Cacophony
  • Eel Umbra
  • Scavenger Grounds
  • Verity Circle
  • Castle Vantress
  • Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • Illusory Angel

The Mindskninner - Low Power Mill

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updated 3h ago100 cards