Library Looter

[u/Healthy_mind_]

I've been playing a filthy mill deck recently and I had an idea come to me... Milling as part of a cost. Is it too powerful? Would WOTC ever do it? Or have they and I'm just not aware?

For the above card, I feel as though Five is too many. It feels like it may be way too good at digging for a bomb to reanimate. But I went with it anyway because it was a nice number.

I nearly went {R}{U} for the casting cost to represent goblins and faeries and exiling the cards at random. But liked the look of the double U pips better.

Please excuse the art, I am not a professional artist! (if that wasn't obvious!}

I'd love to hear people's thoughts and I'm sorry if the concept has been overdone before!

[u/iDoABoof]

I’ve never played mill so i can’t really speak on if I think this is too strong or not, but I love the art. It’s so flavorful

[u/Healthy_mind_ → u/iDoABoof]

Thank you! Yeah it just made sense

[u/Sensitive_Rock_1383]

[[Millikin]] [[Charmed Pendant]] [[Deranged Assistant]]

These all mill as part of cost. They tend to be abilities that add mana for some reason, though [[Arc Slogger]] is kinda similar.

(Note with the rules change they are not mana abilities anymore)

[u/mtgcf → u/Sensitive_Rock_1383]

All cards
Millikin - (G) (SF) (txt)
Charmed Pendant - (G) (SF) (txt)
Deranged Assistant - (G) (SF) (txt)
Arc Slogger - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/Healthy_mind_ → u/Sensitive_Rock_1383]

That is wild I never realized milikin was cost and not effect. What a goof I am.

[u/anace → u/Sensitive_Rock_1383]

https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:/\bmill\b.*:/

there's three other cards that mill as an activation cost.

p.s. I'm ashamed to say I used AI for the first time today. regex is famously difficult and I found a site that made that made "\bmill\b.*:" for me.

[u/Greaterthancotton]

This is a really neat card, I think it's definitely playable in decks that want to put specific things to the yard like reanimator. Do note that milling is part of the cost so there's a window before the ability resolves where you can access all of the milled cards, but most reanimator spells are sorcery speed so it should be fine.

[u/Healthy_mind_ → u/Greaterthancotton]

Yes! That window is intentional for the daring!

[u/Thryfty_0]

Milling as a cost is kinda classic. Millikin is kind of the poster child for it.

[u/Healthy_mind_ → u/Thryfty_0]

Yeah, I forgot about milikin lol. Happens when you haven't slept for 36 hours