How to build a Mid-Range Mill deck in Magic the Gathering?
Imagine a trading card game that has already existed over 20 years but still has more than 20 million current players. Magic the Gathering (MTG) is first published in 1993, and the most common way to win the game is to take down your opponent’s health from 20 to 0. On the other hand, the goal of a Mill (the action of putting opponent’s library to his/her graveyard) deck is to win the game by making your opponent to draw from an empty deck. A Dimir (combination of Black and Blue color) Mill deck is the most popular color of deck among all Mill deck because the synergy of Black color and Blue color cards is greater than that of other color deck. Building a Dimir Mill deck involved 4 …show more content…
A main deck consisted of 60 cards and the most challenging task here is to strike a balance between different card types. A conventional Mill deck contains 4 kinds of cards: Land, Creature, Planeswalker, Spell (Included Sorcery and Instant). Firstly, Land is our magic power or mana base; player needs sufficient mana to cast any spell or summon any creature. Secondly, Creature is the players’ soldiers, some with magic effect; soldiers can protect the players or attack enemies. Thirdly, Planeswalker is the players’ partner or mercenary. He/She is loyal to the player and can act in different ways such as being a decoy or being the main threat. Lastly, Spell is voodoo, bewitchment or curse. It helps player to play different trick to get an edge over his adversary. A typical MTG deck will have 24 Land to ensure player has enough mana to play his/her cards, nevertheless, it is not a fixed number that implied in every single deck. For example, a Mono-Red Aggro deck may only have 18 Land as speed is the first priority of the deck. For a Mid-Range deck (muilti-color deck), I recommended to put 22-24 Land in a deck, any number above 24 or below 22 will slow down the deck’s pace in the game and lower the deck efficiency drastically since it will either make the player having a surplus or deficit of Land. After solving the Land problem, determining …show more content…
Although you can have all the cards you wanted listed on a paper, the cost of the deck might be a concern. If you are super rich that money is not a problem to you, you can buy all the new top tier cards on your deck list. Otherwise, I would suggest to replace some of the expensive cards with some cheaper one. The price of a card mainly determined by the card condition and the card effect. Card condition is about the quality of a card, a Near Mint card is the most expensive one and a Damaged is the least expensive. I would suggest to buy Lightly Played or Moderately Played card, since those scratching or scuffing will become less noticeable after putting in a card protector and the price of them is slightly lower than the price of a Near Mint card. The part which help us to save our money is the card choose of the deck. In our Dimir Mill deck, one way to reduce the price is replacing 4 Glimpse the Unthinkable by 4 Mind Sculpt. They are both 2 mana drop Spell but the significant difference between two cards is the former card mill for 10 and the later one mill for 7. It seems like a small disparity between two cards, but when you think of 4 Glimpse the Unthinkable can mill 40 cards while 4 Mind Sculpt can only mill 28 cards. As the result, a Glimpse the Unthinkable cost around 25 USD meanwhile a Mind Sculpt only cost around 0.1 USD. Besides, the type of Land can greatly affect the
Imagine a trading card game that has already existed over 20 years but still has more than 20 million current players. Magic the Gathering (MTG) is first published in 1993, and the most common way to win the game is to take down your opponent’s health from 20 to 0. On the other hand, the goal of a Mill (the action of putting opponent’s library to his/her graveyard) deck is to win the game by making your opponent to draw from an empty deck. A Dimir (combination of Black and Blue color) Mill deck is the most popular color of deck among all Mill deck because the synergy of Black color and Blue color cards is greater than that of other color deck. Building a Dimir Mill deck involved 4 …show more content…
A main deck consisted of 60 cards and the most challenging task here is to strike a balance between different card types. A conventional Mill deck contains 4 kinds of cards: Land, Creature, Planeswalker, Spell (Included Sorcery and Instant). Firstly, Land is our magic power or mana base; player needs sufficient mana to cast any spell or summon any creature. Secondly, Creature is the players’ soldiers, some with magic effect; soldiers can protect the players or attack enemies. Thirdly, Planeswalker is the players’ partner or mercenary. He/She is loyal to the player and can act in different ways such as being a decoy or being the main threat. Lastly, Spell is voodoo, bewitchment or curse. It helps player to play different trick to get an edge over his adversary. A typical MTG deck will have 24 Land to ensure player has enough mana to play his/her cards, nevertheless, it is not a fixed number that implied in every single deck. For example, a Mono-Red Aggro deck may only have 18 Land as speed is the first priority of the deck. For a Mid-Range deck (muilti-color deck), I recommended to put 22-24 Land in a deck, any number above 24 or below 22 will slow down the deck’s pace in the game and lower the deck efficiency drastically since it will either make the player having a surplus or deficit of Land. After solving the Land problem, determining …show more content…
Although you can have all the cards you wanted listed on a paper, the cost of the deck might be a concern. If you are super rich that money is not a problem to you, you can buy all the new top tier cards on your deck list. Otherwise, I would suggest to replace some of the expensive cards with some cheaper one. The price of a card mainly determined by the card condition and the card effect. Card condition is about the quality of a card, a Near Mint card is the most expensive one and a Damaged is the least expensive. I would suggest to buy Lightly Played or Moderately Played card, since those scratching or scuffing will become less noticeable after putting in a card protector and the price of them is slightly lower than the price of a Near Mint card. The part which help us to save our money is the card choose of the deck. In our Dimir Mill deck, one way to reduce the price is replacing 4 Glimpse the Unthinkable by 4 Mind Sculpt. They are both 2 mana drop Spell but the significant difference between two cards is the former card mill for 10 and the later one mill for 7. It seems like a small disparity between two cards, but when you think of 4 Glimpse the Unthinkable can mill 40 cards while 4 Mind Sculpt can only mill 28 cards. As the result, a Glimpse the Unthinkable cost around 25 USD meanwhile a Mind Sculpt only cost around 0.1 USD. Besides, the type of Land can greatly affect the