The Milling Odyssey

Format: Commander

Commander: Homer, the Hermit

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai landfall mill deck helmed by Homer, the Hermit, a Crab Druid whose landfall trigger mills any number of players for twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control. The strategy floods the board with cheap crabs and type-fixers (Ruin Crab, Hedron Crab, Maskwood Nexus, Leyline of Transformation), stacks extra land drops (Exploration, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait), and multiplies every trigger with Yarok, the Desecrated, Roaming Throne, and Bruvac the Grandiloquent. Primary wins come from library depletion via repeated landfall mills, Scapeshift bursts, and finishers like Riverchurn Monument or The Water Crystal. Combat tokens from Scute Swarm and Mole Man, Moloid Master provide a secondary clock. The deck plays as a grindy value engine that turns every land drop into progressive table-wide mill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Canyon Crab
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fog
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Scuttler
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homer, the Hermit
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Purple-Crystal Crab
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scrabbling Skullcrab
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scuttletide
  • 1 Scuttling Sentinel
  • 1 Shambleshark
  • 1 Sharktocrab
  • 1 Shorecomber Crab
  • 1 Sigiled Starfish
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sinister Starfish
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spiny Starfish
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated