"When Walls Mill You To Death: Mono Blue Pauper Wall Mill 2014"

"When Walls Mill You To Death: Mono Blue Pauper Wall Mill 2014" 

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

I was so well rested over the holidays that all I could stare at in the house was walls.The 4 walls of my house. Yeah.

It got me to thinking about the Doorkeeper , this little blue monster that milled opponents for each creature with defender you controlled.

Out of my well rested brain came this Wall/Defender Miller deck:

22 X Islands

4 X Door Keeper - 2

4 X Murmuring Phantasm - 2

3 X Mnemonic Wall - 5

4 X Guardians of Meletis - 3

4 X Sage's Row Denizen - 3

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19 Creatures

4 X Traveler's Amulet

3 X Cancel

4 X Tome Scour

4 X Negate

4 X Divine Inspiration

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19 Spells

Sideboard:

4 X Essense Scatter

4 X Annul

3 X Inaction Injunction

4 X Disperse

So yeah , the deck revolves around 2 cards. The Door keeper and the Sage's Row Denizen. One mills opponents for 3 mana and the number of Defenders you have on your side of the board and the other mills opponents when a blue creature enters the battlefield under your control. With the exception of Guardians of Meletis , everything else here is Blue. 

So you have 2 mill strategies that are already working , you also have Tome Scour that mills 5 cards at a time. 

This deck is built for Maximum toughness and defense. Early attackers would have problems with the Door Keeper and Murmuring Phantasm which have 0/4 and 0/5 toughness respectively. At most early attackers coud only be 3/1 when you are facing a Boros Pauper deck. Once you have established enough mana you could just Cancel or Essence Scatter opponents creatures. Negate for Burn spells or other creature spot removal.

Traveler's Amulet is here so you do not miss a single land drop.Important when you are a control player.

Card draw is provided by Divine Inspiration. You want to refill your hand quickly and as often as you can to make sure that you could control your opponents spells. Mnemonic Wall also provides a recursion for your spells , especially for your card draw and counters.

I know that Blue/Black Mill maybe the current Meta in Standard pauper nowadays so consider this an alternate Mill deck that utilizes some underplayed cards. Plus they are mostly Wall/Defenders. So when was the last time you Milled somebody with walls?