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MTG question about milling? Why do people like it so much?
Why do so many seem to prefer mill cards to trying to overpower their opponent's? Thero's block had Ashiok, now it's the new Jace and Ulamog with ingest cards. I get how they win, you eventually can't complete the required draw step and thus you lose. But it seems like a cheap shortcut around power and strategizing doesn't it? No more worry about killing the other guys beast creatures or knocking out their life total, instead just run them out of cards and voila, easy victory. Why do many seem to prefer this to a real strategy? Make use of kill spells and cards that do stuff other than milling. I just don't get it.
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- 5 years agoFavorite Answer
Cheap shortcut? Obviously you haven't been playing the game long enough. Decking out your opponent is one of the harder ways to win. Milling cards is usually more inefficient than just taking out your opponent's life. That's why people prefer mill cards. Because it's harder and they like the challenge.
Even with Ingest, your opponent will lose to having 0 life sooner than losing his whole library.
- 5 years ago
Statistically I would have to say no; most decks are everything else other then "Mill".
If it is regards to current cards only; not sure; this new Eldrazi set has exiling cards from the library as a whole big set mechanic and ingestors and processors etc. so that would cause an increase in the number of decks like that.
