Theory Crafting Golgari Self Mill
Golgari Midrange has been a relevant deck for a while in Standard. It has put up results at all levels. Now, we are seeing a lot of good cards for it rotating out, and we are losing some very useful lands. I thought it might be a good time to shake up the archetype a bit and try out a different archetype within Golgari. Today we are going to be looking at Golgari Self Mill. We will be milling ourselves with a few different creature abilities, and also ramping a bit. Eventually, we will cast some pretty big creatures, and then take advantage of the number of creatures within our graveyard by making the opponent lose life equal to that number. Don't worry if it doesn't quite seem fast enough compared to some of the other creature decks out there—we have a few different ways to gain life that should help us stabilize and set up our combo!
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Let me start by saying that I saw Ygra, and my love for cats immediately made me want to throw her into a deck. I think this is a pretty good shell and could be the start of figuring out the best way to use her. I'm not convinced this is the best way to use her, but we have to start somewhere, and we will never know if we don't try out some builds. This deck uses a lot of new cards from the set, and I won't go over all of them, but I will go over the cards that help us the most to set up our win con.