Every workday ahead of the set's paper release, Insight takes a quick look at a deck featuring cards from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. Dimir Mill has been getting useful additions all the time lately, first from Modern Horizons 2 and now again, taking it from outsider to real contender!
A little more than a year ago, I wrote about the then new and its possible influence on Modern Mill. Almost feels like it was yesterday …
But a lot has happened in the meantime! With eight Crabs in the deck, proved a powerful pick-up. Modern Horizons 2 gave blue players . More importantly, the set added another piece to the milling arsenal in .
This brings us to the present day and to . Modern has always been a format filled to the brim with fast decks full of cheap spells. These are usually the ones Mill struggles against the most, but that's about to change because of this card alone. Milling an opponent until they hit combined mana value 20 is crazy in a meta where runs rampant. Some of these Monkey decks run more spells that cost zero than spells that cost three mana.
And did I say "mill"? Scratch that, this one actually exiles cards! One big issue with milling is that it actually helps opponents who run graveyard synergies. With Laughter, however, they will hardly see their cards ever again, preventing early drops or escapes, above all.
Finally, don't forget that Laughter is highly synergistic with (or ). In many matchups you'll simply exile all copies of your opponent's biggest threats, for example or , which just so happen to coincide with their deck's biggest mana costs too!
is the real deal. All Mill decks that made Top 32 at Challenges over the weekend of July 10–11 included a full four copies—to some decent success.
| Helvetti's Dimir Mill, Top 8 at Modern Challenge |
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