Milling-A-Ton 2.0 by PooPooDypa

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Ancient One is a Dimir self-mill deck that wants to fill its own graveyard to switch on Descend 8, turning the 8/8 commander into a reusable draw-and-mill engine. The primary plan is to use the command-zone looting to stack the graveyard, then close with huge mill effects like Traumatize, Fleet Swallower, or The Mindskinner converting combat damage into mass mill. The Mindskinner acts as a hidden commander, giving the deck an evasive 10-power alternate wincon against a single opponent. Secondary lines use Duskmantle Guildmage, Mindrew, and Syr Konrad to drain while milling, or reanimation with Victimize, Extract from Darkness, and Rise of the Dark Realms to rebuild a board out of the graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Don't Make a Sound
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Grasping Tentacles
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace's Erasure
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mind Sculpt
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mindwrack Harpy
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Perilous Vault
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke