Summary
- Milling is an alternative win condition in Magic: The Gathering, where players put cards from their deck into their graveyard.
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker and Umbris, Fear Manifest are both examples of powerful mill commanders in the Commander format.
- Each entry in this list offers various ways to mill opponents or self-mill, utilize graveyard resources, or create devastating mill effects that can quickly deplete an opponent's deck.
Though combat is the most popular means of winning a game of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering, there are other ways players can win. One of the most popular of these alternative win conditions is mill. Milling is the act of putting cards directly frౠom a player's deck ✨into their graveyard. If a player were to draw a card and there are no cards left in their deck, that player loses the game, making mill a potential means of taking out other players in a game of Commander.
While mill can be used on opponents, players are also capable of milling themselves as a means of easily accessing cards in their gravꦯeyard. So today, we're going to dive into mill decks in the Commander format and see which commanders are the best options for those seeking to build a mill deck.
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15 Wrexial, The 🍌Risen Deep ෴
A 5/8 for six mana, Wrexial the Risen D✤eep is a legendary kraken who upon dealing combat damage to a player, allo🐓ws its controller to cast an instant or sorcery from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
This ability pairs very well with the numerous mill options that a Wrexial playe🐷r has access to within its Dimir color identity, filling a given player's graveyard with impactful spells that can then be cast for free.
14 🀅 𓂃 Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
A straightforward mill option, Circu, Dimir Lobotomist removes a card from the top of a player's library from the game each time its controller casts a blue spell, and each time its controllꦗer casts a black spell, causing two cards to be exiled this way if the spell cast is both colors.
Circu is a reliable means of consistently milling an opponent due to its ability triggering upon nearly any spell in its respective deck being cast. Additionally, as the cards that Circu mills are exiled rather than being put in a graveyard, even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:decks with large amounts of recursion will suffer great losses.
13 ♛ Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
A 2/4 vampire with flying for five mana, Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker can mill a🐟n opponent a substantial quantity of cards each time it deals ไcombat damage to a player. Upon inflicting combat damage to a given player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they've revealed four lands. Then, each of those cards are put in that player's graveyard.
This ability can remove tons of cards from a player's deck, especially if Mirko Vosk is left unchecked over the course of multiple turns. This ability can truly be devastating against decks that contain low mana curves a💎nd by extension, less land cards.
12 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ
The head of House Dimir,𒆙 Lazav, Dimir ꦬMastermind is a shapeshifter who pairs well with copious amounts of mill spells.
Though Lazav is a 3/3 with hexproof for four mana, Lazav is capable of turning into a copy of any opponents' creatures that are put into a graveyard from anywhere. This means that while creatures destroౠyed with removal spells may be copied with Lazav, the same can be done with milled creatures. This means that a Lasav player may have access to an opponent's strongest creature before they do.
Furtheꦿrmore, whenever Lazav becomes a copy of a creature, it maintains hexproof and the ability to become a copy of creatures put in graveyards, so it can continue to adapt as its controller mills their opponents.
11 Arau💮mi Of The Dead Tide
Printed in Commander Legends, Araumi of the Dead Tide is a criminally underrated Dimir com෴mander that can provide great value to players able to fill their graveyards through the use🍰 of mill.
A 1/4 merfolk wizard for three mana, Araumi can be tapped, exiling a number of cards in its controller's graveyards equal to the number of opponents they have. Araumi then provides ꦡa creature in its controller's graveyard with encore, with its encore cost being equal to its mana cost, allowing for several temporary copies of that creature to be put into play. This allows Araumi decks to blend the use of self-milling effects and high-impact "enter the battlefield" triggers to potent effect.
10 The Mimeoplasm 🌊 ꩵ
A Sultai mill 🅘option, the Mimeoplasm has the distinction of being a powerful mill commander whether its controller is milling an opponent or themselv🍌es.
Upon entering the battlefield,🦹 The Mimeoplasm can exile any two creature cards from graveyards. It then enters the battlefield as a copy of one of the exiled creatures, coming along with an amount of +1/+1 counters equal to the power of the second exiled creature. This makes the Mimeoplasm quite flexible and adaptive, as it can use any creatures in players' graveyards as a source of both utility and offense.
9 Oon✱a, Queen Of The Fae
As long as a mil𒊎l player has mana to spare, few can comp𝔍are with Oona, Queen of the Fae.
A 5/5 with flying for six mana, at any time, Oona's controller may pay one mana and X, choosing a color. Target player than mills X, and Oona's controller creates an amount of 1/1 flying faerie rogue tokens equal to the number of cards milled this way that were of the chosen color. When paired with massive amounts of mana or even combos capable of creating infinite mana, Oona can mill massive chunks of a player's library at a time, even mil🐠ling an entire library if infinite mana is involved.
8 🅠 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
A dedicated self-mill commander, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant is a creature capable 😼of converting its controller's library into a self-milling engine of value.
Whenever Sidisi enters the battlꦺefield or attacks, its controller puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard. This synergizes in noteworthy effect with Sidisi's triggered ability which creates a 2/2 zombie token whenever one or more creatures are put in the graveyard from its controller's library.
Due to the wording of thi♓s ability, it's advised to use repeatable ღeffects that are capable of milling small numbers of cards at a time in order to create a zombie horde, as milling a massive portion of one's deck at once will only result in a single zombie being created.
7 ౠ 🍌 Grolnok, the Omnivore
Printed in Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Grolnok, the Omnivore is a creature that nearly convert💮s its controller's self-milling into card draw.
A 3/3 frog for four mana, Grolnok states that whenever a frog its owner controls attacks, that player mills three cards.However, w💖henever Grolnok's controller mills a permanent card, they exile that card with a croak counter on it. This is key, as Grolnok's controller is capable of casting spells and playing lands from exile as long as they have croak counters on them. This means in a deck made up primarily of permanent cards, even if Grolnok is the only frog present, it can provide its controller access to three additional cards each turn.
6 Anowon, the Ruin Thief ღ
For those looking for a Dimir commander that blends milling with tribal synergies, Anowon, the Ruin Thief may be the commander for you. A 2/4 vampire rogue for four mana, not only does Anowon provide other rogues with +1/+1, it states that whenever a rogue under its owner's control deal combat damage to a player, that player mi𓆏lls than mana cards.
As rogues tend to be quite evasive, this allows Anowon decks to simultaneously deal extra damage whilst filling their opponent's graveyards, enabling effects that allow for cards to be ♋stolen from opponent's graveyards.
