The most evil deck in Standard.

[@mgsBicycleO9]

Great that you show cards on screen when you mention them. Very helpful for new players like me

[@LegenVD]

Glad to help!

[@jesperstald]

Also for old players - to learn new cards :)

[@ariadne8789]

Jace's face in the thumbnail is a gleefully diabolical nightmare made flesh. Top notch work as always, Legend :D

[@439801RS]

Reminded me of diabolic tutor

[@lachlank.8270]

MFW X = 11

[@nicholasgilvin6396]

Great deck but your piloting is second to none. Thank you for the years of great content, keep up the good work!

[@LegenVD]

Much appreciated!

[@randomdudette1726]

If you are unsure on how to start when it is your first time, you can always ... 33:47 - it is a classic for a reason and does not disappoint! Jokes aside, what a masterly evil brew, LVD, I love it! Cool deck and very nicely piloted!

[@CyberBuster93]

Diabolical thumbnail and diabolical deck, Luca! I'm not a fan of mill, playing with or against, but this deck is seriously the busniess haha. You're the best, man! Appreciate you tons!

[@geronimo8159]

I think playing mill is quite fun, since your kind of playing your own little mini game 😅. And, to be fair, if your plan doesn't work out, you're pretty much fucked, since it's quite unlikely that you will win by damage. So it might be evil, but it's still kind of fair in my opinion. Not any "more" evil than control decks with any other win condition actually, even if losing to an empty library might be quite frustrating 😂.

[@tanegram]

yeah, really like the dynamic of a combo mill deck instead of the classic ruin crab

[@cloud9847]

it makes me pretty happy to know that I made this deck on my own a few months back. I only have 2 temporary lockdown so I have soul Partition and will switch in the random card for what I'm facing. Sometimes I'll make more counter spell. Love your stuff, Legen!!!

[@Arrwmkr]

Yes i play something similar with some black cards too

[@00110000]

As someone who watches a lot of Sonio, it feels really weird to see this kind of deck while hearing LVD's voice.

[@teusz16]

At 28:05 could have styled on the opponent by bouncing the Jukai Naturalist with Ottawara to make them draw their last card from Audacity going to the graveyard, with lethal at the next draw step

[@corpsefoot758]

@@WhatisAPaladin When did he claim to invent every deck he plays …? He literally clarifies it’s a Patron suggestion at the beginning of the video 😂

[@callumreilly9107]

I love Legend’s thumbnails, they’re often so funny or horrifying

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

Your one of the few that use Fields of Ruin , and in this meta they are needed!!

[@PaliSB94]

Nice deck mate. I use Mindbreaker in Historic. Discard it for unearth, pop Bruvac and bang.

[@R_Arsiks_6]

Really liking the decks you've been showcasing lately!

[@bekooler1]

Another smart deck build that takes control immediately, if lands permit.

[@XaeroGames]

Mindbreaker milling half your library on turn 4 is kinda busted. Some even play soul partition to recast Jace and be extra toxic :)

[@robertmcintyre9023]

28:00 the opponent does know you “have it”, it’s flashback.

[@LegenVD]

We could have some other instant in hand is what I meant.

[@panic--panic--]

not looking forward to facing this on the ladder. excellent deck as usual!

[@SilverFan21k]

Now thats weird! I was playing this exact deck as monoblue last night

[@jeremysmith4620]

"exact" might be the wrong choice if it was mono-blue, lol. That aside, what did you play in blue, counters to replace the other cards or something different?

[@superduper853]

ever since that one time i got destroyed by a mindbreaker in limited i've wanted to see you try it in standard haha

[@Calanaises]

In Game 5, Dennick should protect you from graveyard hate so you could have safely discarded the Mindbreaker.

[@LegenVD]

Good point!

[@denisskenderovic3707]

Loving Mill always. Great content!

[@astonishinglymediocre1760]

Hit mythic again with a slightly modified version of this deck. There are times when mono red will just alpha you, but it is really strong against the various aggro decks overall.

[@MidgarMerc]

28:20 if you didn't have another Jace you could have also bounced their creature with Otawara sending Audacity to the graveyard so they draw then mill for 21 exactly

[@LegenVD]

Indeed!

[@MELEROXGAMES]

One shoot, one legend. Awesome

[@teusz16]

Haven’t gotten to watch the whole deck tech so not sure if you mentioned this, but any consideration for Vantress Visions (the adventure side of Virtue of Knowledge) in this deck? Using it can double the amount of cards milled by Jace so that he also can mill half a deck.

[@LegenVD]

Would need a lot more good ETB effects for that to be worthwhile I feel.

[@Bon_Appetit09]

Really satisfying when u play it. But feels bad when against it...

[@Erictraiven]

The end is brutal against this

[@fwmlp]

This deck is the reason I now start a 15 minutes timer when starting any match, once the time is up is an instant concession from me. Playing 40+ minutes per match twice against it was enough for the rest of my life. On the other hand, I was able to defeat it using a Syr Ginger and an Agatha's Cauldron. The mill actually helped me finding Gingerbrute, Tough Cookie and Greta.

[@jimmyvandrunen5960]

Thx for the deck! I was stuck on plat tier 3 finally got to T2 =)

[@jimmyvandrunen5960]

@@WhatisAPaladin nothing here suggests I don't , I do. And decks like these usually have 4,5 different cards added for my starting one. It's just that I went back & forth too long on that tier and this deck helped me to move. Also, the higher tiers dont allow many cards beside the S & A tier cards,we all know that, you know it, so "own deck" in high ladder tiers pretty much is an illusion.

[@matejformanek9438]

28:05 you could also bounce Naturalist for a flashy exact lethal.

[@Dsmky117]

who the heck has time for ruin crab when you can pull off these shenanigans

[@naruedonsakulboonthanom1972]

Fun Deck. I like it!

[@geronimo8159]

Oh man, love me some sweet, delicious mill 😋. Always a treat.

[@skipper7152]

Such value

[@astonishinglymediocre1760]

I would like to say thank you for posting this deck. I am a dirty casual when it comes to Magic, and I am a bit too addicted to jank to get past Diamond. I have literally played this game since Guilds of Ravnica and had NEVER hit mythic. That changed today as I finally hit mythic for the first time ever using this mill deck. I did swap out two smite for two get lost, and am thinking of dumping the last smite for a march of otherworldy light, as sometimes artifacts feel bad. Do you have any suggestions for a sideboard?

[@lachlank.8270]

Realmbreaker

[@kngnate4087]

Could you make a Grixis Mill Deck Starring Lord Xander please?

[@LegenVD]

Lord Xander disappoints whenever I try to include it.

[@jessewatson4876]

I played against this scheme last night. I dropped a spark rupture. Their jace came in as a 5/5 creature. Opponent seemed a bit confused. Then scooped. I had a good laugh.

[@rafaelpardinifariabastos4545]

excellent thumbnail 😅

[@Cloud7648]

I saw a deck where the player play the same strategy jace/mill but the rest of the deck were fill with board wipe, that game gave me depression😢

[@fwmlp]

Yeah, I played against one of those a couple times and the opponent took ages to make any move and then passed... My entire lunchtime was gone and I had to concede anyways. Now I just concede on these grindier matches since I can recover playing 4-5 other matches on the same time.

[@dacenmclean7901]

It’s the gamble version of the deck. If they’re playing a creature deck and you play that, it’s an instant win. Any other matchup you get screwed. It’s interesting in arena because at least %60 of decks are creature based

[@1JarzaK]

Thanks for the deck, managed to enter diamond with it :) Do you have bo3 version by any chance? Would love to try it in paper at my local fnm...

[@PrimeSuspect50]

Would be cool to see an esper mill with breech too

[@ashkanlion23]

I tried running this deck in standard hell queue and went on the draw against mono red everytime. The matchmaker is the most evil thing in standard.

[@brendonford3838]

I played against this deck, it was brutal, and I enjoyed dying to mill that didn’t take 40 turns

[@lachlank.8270]

If you need to hit more land drops wouldn't a couple of copies of Realmbreaker fit well into the deck

[@LegenVD]

Certainly an option!

[@feedbacker89]

Why were you discarding mindbreaker when you had 7 mana available? Wouldnt getting two uses out of it be worth it when you still have a healthy life total?

[@LegenVD]

Especially against decks that might have removal that can exile our creatures it's best not to expose the Mindbreaker to make sure we can at least mill with it once.

[@leonorhelling982]

🎉

[@jibrilbetter]

the most irritating about this deck is when against player with 200+ more cards

[@jibrilbetter]

@@WhatisAPaladin sure, it's all about what cards in our hand

[@wiki-dg3fc]

I don’t know I made stax

[@Iutubsucs]

You need to stop posting videos, I'm a month behind, if you keep this pace your channel will have more episodes than One Piece!

[@douglasingersoll7486]

😊

[@CrimbusDaJimbus]

I was like, why no fraying sanity? but then I saw this is a standard deck

[@Jason-fv4rg]

I almost exclusively play mill decks in Historic. I like the idea of Fraying Sanity, but it has a couple of things going against it in such a fast format. It's slow at 3 mana, not doing anything when it hits the board. And it has no synergy with Tasha's Hideous Laughter, so there are scenarios where you spend that 3 mana for nothing and you're dead on turn 4 anyway. I've built a couple of decks around it, taking out Tasha's and running a full playset of Fraying Sanity. It makes weaker mill cards stronger, but still isn't as fast as just running the strongest mill cards that all have an effect the turn they're played.

[@CrimbusDaJimbus]

@@Jason-fv4rg I completely agree, Ive been playing it in explorer and been getting pretty consistent turn four kills but historic is just way too fast. Plus, to get the turn four you need to have turn two discard mindbreaker, turn three play fraying sanity, turn four bring it back and hope they have no instant speed removal which is risky. even so ive been doin decently well with it these past several weeks.

[@Tomsgate101]

Winning by milling. Whoever came up with that idea at WotC should have birds poo on his entire car every day, no exceptions. It's just daft.

[@fwmlp]

Yeah, I played mill for a brief time back in the original Ravnica set building around Glimpse the Unthinkable, but I gave up on drugs and I am clean now not playing with blue ever since.

[@danielstein8769]

Its a clock with no counterplay other than counterspelling, and even that doesn't help against mind breaker. I'd rather have poison counters be evergreen. It also effectively removes strong cards from your deck and sometimes mana screws you. There should be some more shuffle graveyard into library cards if this trash is floating around.

[@honestabe411]

This is the wrong game for you. Try Pokémon

[@Tomsgate101]

@@honestabe411 Not sure it would be worse than this

[@honestabe411]

@@Tomsgate101 candyland?

[@JamesBrown-xb7yi]

This deck seems so broken

[@JamesBrown-xb7yi]

What beats this deck

[@lachlank.8270]

Mono Red

[@keikapanen5555]

This may be a hot take, but I feel like showcasing decks like this just gets more people to make the deck and ruin Standard further.

[@LegenVD]

I showcase a wide range of decks and strategies. What you like to play with or against will differ for other people. Can't please everyone with every upload, and that's okay.

[@keikapanen5555]

@@LegenVD I like your vids and all, but like you noted on this, it's the most evil deck in standard. Unfortunately, seeing people start making it more just makes the game less fun.

[@LegenVD]

@@keikapanen5555 Only called it that because a vocal minority have a strong reaction when losing to mill, as evidenced here. I don't particularly mind.

[@keikapanen5555]

@@LegenVD I see just as many people saying they like it as much as they hate it along with some people making suggestions here, but it is what it is. I see little fun in grinding/buying cards that you cant play because a youtuber says a deck is mean, so they need to copy it and play it online, which in this case destroys decks fast. Good luck with your videos though! I do like seeing the deck tech to get some ideas of what's out there and just general playing strategies I mtg.

[@MitsisChris]

And this is the perfect video for wotc to see what standard meta is all about! Pathetic, and definitely not fun to opay anymore

[@salvatoreandreatta5666]

cringe deck asf