Self-Mill - Mono-Blue by JLCitadel

Format: Commander

Commander: Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-blue self-mill combo deck helmed by Emry, Lurker of the Loch. The primary game plan is to mill through the entire library and win with Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries once the library is empty. Leveler and Mirror-Mad Phantasm provide one-shot library-emptying effects, while Hedron Crab, Cephalid Vandal, Stillness in Motion, and a dense suite of mill spells accelerate the self-mill. Emry contributes affinity-based cost reduction, an ETB mill of four, and the ability to recast artifacts from the graveyard, making her a value engine rather than a combo piece. A secondary, slower plan mills opponents out via Hedron Crab, Drowned Secrets, and Fraying Sanity. The deck is slow and durdly, relying on card flow and a handful of tutors to assemble its three-piece win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Cephalid Vandal
  • 1 Chill of Foreboding
  • 1 Chronic Flooding
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Dream Twist
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 32 Island
  • 1 Jace's Erasure
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm
  • 1 Mission Briefing
  • 1 Moment of Truth
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightmares and Daydreams
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Remand
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stillness in Motion
  • 1 Taigam's Scheming
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Tome Scour
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke