Episode 51 - Ransacking the Library: Fifty-Three to Go

Whether it's caused by eroding your memory, freezing your brain, dampening your thoughts, having your secrets drowned or your grimoire stolen, glimpsing the unthinkable, looting, brokering, or just being driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away, Milling is never a fun way to lose a game of Magic. But it sure is a great way to win a game of Magic! If you can get it to work, that is. In this episode, which is brought to you with one more Polar Kraken than usual, we're going to take a long, hard look at being run out of cards. We have three decks that each win by depleting your opponents' libraries, albeit each one does so in its own particular fashion, which you can see further down in the show notes. Different colors go about milling in different ways, and we'll cover all the ones that come to us. Keep an ear out for a lively biological discussion about the classification similarities and disparities between crustaceans and cephalopods. And no, I'm not making that up. Dirk's Milling Deck Creatures: Drift of Phantasms x3 Soratami Mindsweeper x2 Lore Broker x4 Belltower Sphinx x4 Blizzard Specter x2 Vedalken Entrancer x4 Thought Courier x1 Lurking Informant x4 Artifact: Millstone x2 Enchantment: Seal of Doom x4 Instant/Sorcery: Last Gasp x3 Psychic Drain x4 Glimpse the Unthinkable x3 Lands: Swamps x8 Islands x8 Dimir Aqueduct x4 Brian's Milling Deck 10:Plains 11:Island 2:Azorius Chancery 1:Boreal Shelf 4:Ink Dissolver 3:Drowner of Secrets 3:Fallowsage 3:Information Dealer 3:Silvergill Adept 2:Wandering Graybeard 1:Surgespanner 1:Stonybrook Schoolmaster 1:Grimoire Thief 1:Riptide Chronologist 4:Merrow Commerce 3:Memory Sluice 2:Forced Fruition 2:Pemmin's Aura 2:Summon the School 1:Hoofprints of the Stag Mike's Squid (Mollusc?) Alarm Land (22) 15: Island 2: Cephalid Coliseum 2: Saprazzan Skerry 2: Sveylunite Temple 1: Shelldock Isle Creature (14) 2: Cephalid Broker 2: Cephalid Looter 2: Chronozoa 2: Riptide Shapeshifter 1: Arcanis the Omnipotent 1: Isleback Spawn 1: Magus of the Future 1: Murkfiend Liege 1: Polar Kraken 1: Tidespout Tyrant Non-Creature (24) 4: Accumulated Knowledge 4: Rune Snag 4: Serum Visions 4: Wistful Thinking 2: Capsize 2: Feldon's Cane 2: Homarid Spawning Bed 2: Intruder Alarm   Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-51-ransacking-the-library-fifty-three-to-go-t240.htmlEmail us at [email protected] me an article at [email protected] located at http://www.cardshark.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool