![]() This is the bad kind of discard effect, but Nightmare Void has dredge on it. Still, it can be used as a regular board wipe or a one-sided removal depending on the circumstances if you manage to put counters onto it. Necroplasm is an exciting card because it’s a pseudo- board wipe that’s somewhat slow to use. If you have infinite mana, you can mill yourself out with ease to cast a Thassa's Oracle. What’s curious about this one is that you can pay as much mana as you like when you cast this spell. Liliana's Indignation reminds me a lot of Song of Blood because they both rely on creatures to trigger an ability. It might see some play in angel tribal decks. Renegade Reaper almost didn’t make it onto the list, but it gains some life when the conditions are met. It provides a new way of playing even if you run out of cards from your library. Out of the Tombs is a newly introduced card with lots of potential. The purpose is to follow that by casting or reanimating Thassa's Oracle to win on the spot. Cephalid Illusionist is where half the name comes from, and the idea is to pair it along with Nomads en-Kor or Shuko to mill yourself out. This card is the core of a deck called “Cephalid Breakfast” in Legacy. ![]() This is one of the most used cards to cast Tolarian Terror more cheaply in some formats like Pauper. You can quickly fill out your graveyard if you play multiples in any deck. Mental Note is one of the best self-mill cards because it replaces itself for cheap. Its primary role isn’t to mill cards from your deck but to use cheap mana artifacts like Mox Amber from the graveyard along with Paradox Engine to generate infinite mana in the right deck. Emry, Lurker of the LochĮmry, Lurker of the Loch isn’t your regular self-mill card. It’s often paired with See the Truth in formats where it’s legal, like Pioneer. Founding the Third Pathįounding the Third Path is a new card introduced with Dominaria United, and it’s perfect for decks that run cheap spells that can abuse its value like Consider. Unlike other cards that just put cards from your deck into the graveyard, False Memories does it in big chunks and cheaply. Rather, it’s an old card whose ruling has changed to “when Ertai's Familiar phases out or leaves the battlefield, mill three cards,” making it way better than its original printing. The particularity of Ertai's Familiar is that it’s not your usual self-mill enabler. The second is that it generates mana while doing so. The first is that it’s a creature that can mill you multiple times throughout a game. Deranged Assistantĭeranged Assistant has two things I like. While Covetous Castaway’s ability only triggers when it dies (strictly worse than an ETB), it made this list because its second half Ghostly Castigator has an ability that can return three cards from your graveyard to your library. Here are some other pseudo-self-mill cards that look like self-mill: But it usually does it by looking at or revealing cards from the library and then putting some of them into the graveyard. Interestingly, green is the color with the most ways to put cards into the graveyard. ![]() Strategic Planning, for example, is a card that puts cards into the graveyard for you, but it technically isn’t “from the top of your library.” Some cards “look” like self-mill cards because they’re often used to send cards to the graveyard, but by definition they’re not. Besides, the point is self-milling, not having options! Honorable Mentions I’m also excluding cards like Hedron Crab that can choose any player. I’m looking specifically at cards that target only yourself, so cards that affect the whole table like Dread Summons are out. Sorry Magmatic Channeler fans, we aren’t talking exile today. Sigil of Myrkul | Illustration by avid AstrugaĪs the name implies, self-mill cards are those that let you put the top X cards from your library into the graveyard, and only the graveyard. Ludevic, Necrogenius / Olag, Ludevic’s Hubris
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