A janky combo I came up with a while ago is a perfect fit in this deck, Animate Land + The End. Turn an opponents basic land into a creature, cast The End on it and go exile every basic land with the same name from their deck.

Another good card for letting your opponents ramp is Old-Growth Dryads. It’s a 3/3 creature for G that on ETB lets each opponent search for a basic and put it into play tapped. It’s one of my favorites from my “undercosted high power creatures with hug downsides” deck.

I actually have a Smeagol milling deck as well, which was inspired by an older video where you talked about Bloodbond March. I mainly use Smeagol to ramp. The milling engine is 11 Ravenous Rats and Altar of Dementia. I use Bloodbond March and a lot of graveyard-to-hand cards. And of course, Secret Salvage (another card this channel put me on) to get all those Rats in the graveyard for Bloodbond March abuse.

You forgot tempt with discovery! I love that one!

Love this deck tech, I have been trying to build a smeagol mill deck, thanks for the recommendations for some of the janky cards to fill the deck out

Hey Demo, just wanted to let you know I found a neat card you might like to throw into your Shanna deck. Junkyo Bell is a 4 mana artifact that can replicate Shanna's ability and put it on a creature you control on upkeep. It makes you sac that creature at the end of turn, but you already plan on saccing big creatures in that deck anyways so I thought it was a good fit. It also lets you turn a token into a big sac target if you need it for some reason (since you probably won't always have Shanna around on your upkeep)

The reason this smeagol in particular is popular is bc most content creators hyped it up in preview season as it goes infinite with another card that tempts you whenever a land comes into play. So it was always a mill deck and it’s a 2 card combo half of which is in the command zone. Edit: i think you need a token and a sac outlet too mb. The card is “Dúnedain Rangers”.

Really nice decklist ! You should add Undercity Informer ;)

Sounds fun. Thx

wait scion doesn't give it's ability depending on land type, it's on creature colors

This forced ramp gravestorm is how I built my The Gitrog Monster back when it first came out! Love it so much

2:50 "Bramble Sovereign" might help you (she gives you clone tokens in green"

Great list, I had a Smeagol nazgul deck for a while but without this mill focus. Might rebuild! I ran blood pet and lotus field in mine. Effects that let you sac lands you control but don't own is great value. Blood pet (mana egg type things) let you get a Smeagol trigger as soon as he comes out!

this is great

Neat idea - I'm curious about if this deck can really function when so many of the cards that remove their lands only remove basics and give them the option with "player may search their library" as opposed to forcing them to. With so many groups opposed to certain amounts of land destruction and the ridiculous amount of utility lands now - most people don't run that many basics and the core milling engine (Smeagol) is for any land. We don't seem to currently have many cost effective tools to remove the nonbasics.

I have head games in my Smoegal deck. It works great for thinning decks... give the player in the lead a hand of lands. It also gives the option of helping out someone who is behind.

I actually have a Naya combo deck like this! It's built around Zo-zu and Realm Razer, but it's even easier when you get to include white because of cards like Path to Exile and Settle the Wreckage!

not sure it if is just all ready an auto include in the deck, but ghoulish procession does work in smealgol. all but guarantees the end step triggers, not a bad ring bearer target either.

One of my favorite pet cards called sadistic sacrament would work well here!

Oh man, I have been wanting to make a deck around this card since I pulled it in the ore release.

Gotta use -trepanation blade- too

wait I built this theme with this commander yesterday

You gotta throw in Deadly Cover-up!

I recently made a knight tribal deck with smeagol and hakkon as the secret commander, smeagol is a surprisingly fun build around

kind of cool... i wonder how well it works

You can add voracious varmint

How does it feel falling into the “unique deck guy” title? Stuff like this is why I watch you ❤

I recently built Rakdos, the Muscle from Outlaws of Thunder Junction and it really surprised me how easily you can mill people out with that Commander, The only card in the actual deck that references milling is Alter of Dementia which I have used before to get to that end, but I've also milled people out without using it at all. Rakdos exiles off the top of Target players library equal to the mana value of creatures you sacrifice and when you have repeatable sac outlets and stuff like living death or just a really wide board, you can get there pretty easily.

Nice Idea! I think also a good include would be Deadly Cover-Up. You potentially could exile all basics of a type from the library.

Demo, I built and played a Kaho, Minamo Hostorian deck due to you bringing them to light. It is mainly about getting Kaho out & casting Prologue to Phyresis. Everyone at my table actually loved it, even though it is infect. The deck has 0 infect creatures but does run all of the good Proliferate cards like the blue dominus & the 7/5 whale from MH3. It has a subtheme of planeswalkers with Ichormoon Guantlet. The guys all liked it because it adds a clock to everyone, evenly. I love it because I end up having two main ways to win, through Infect or through the planeswalkers constantly growing each turn. I just wish there were a few more instant spells that gave an infect counter because as of right now, I have to be extremely careful when playing Kaho & exiling the spell.

I built a Dimir Lord of the Nazgul deck with nine Nazgul cards, and found the explosion of +1/+1 counters on Wraiths from Nazgul ring-tempts-you triggers totally overwhelmed all other deck dynamics and win conditions. Once you get Call of the Ring and 3+ Nazguls in play, there's no stopping the +1/+1 counter population explosion. You hardly even need your commander in play - Lord of the Nazgul just adds more Wraiths to the battlefield and blows out the game when you reach nine Wraiths. Smeagol, Helpful Guide is intriguing, but the lack of Blue makes it harder to defend from removal. With nine Nazgul in a deck, I think I'd prefer to go Sultai rather than switch from Dimir to Golgari. Perhaps Yarok, the Desecrated would make a good Sultai bridge commander, doubling the ETB ring-tempts-you triggers your Nazgul generate to pump Smeagol's mill assaults? You could double it again with Panharmonicon or Reflections of Littjara as well.

Smeagol gave our pod the best commander story when they got our first mill victory by killing us out, and then another week won by milling themselves out after reanimating an opponent's lab man effect!

"My precious"

I went the combo route with Smeagol for infinite mill using Nazgul, sac outlets, and landfalls. I've won several times with the deck and it's always a satisfying win because the combos usually take 4-5 pieces to pull off.

I have been using bitter ordeal on cedh and the card is pure gas if you can turbo it.

He's actually cool. I don't know why he isn't as popular. I even got the playmat.

Some guy I used to know had a mono blue artifact deck,with no basic lands in it. He would make all of his permanents hexproof,and indestructible. The only thing that terrified him, was Wave of Vitriol.

Interesting.

Need build ratadrabik with nazgul and watch see how easy aristocratic theme with the ring mechanic busted with ratadrabik as commander

Uniquely interesting...

Would think you would want Urborg in this.

What about Geth, Lord of the Vaults?

Is it milling, because it reveals? Just Like Nadu as non-draw?

Eradicate and The End can exile a bunch of basics from opponents' decks if you can animate one of their lands. Maybe requires running suboptimal land aninators, but seems like it fits the theme. I tried a smeagol mill deck without the extra exile from the library cards and it was too inconsistent because there just aren't enough good "ring tempts you" cards, but I didn't think to otherwise actively remove lands from opponents' decks. That's cool.

Hey i made this idea as well!

Collective Voiage is a force ability. Your opponents can choose to not pay any mana, but they have to search for the basic lands. Because you want them to have fewer lands in play you can pay as much mana as you want. Each deck, even the non-basic havy decks, have at least 5-10 basics, just in case of swords or ramp effects. /e whoops, I made a mistake. You can always "fail to find" when you're searching in a hidden zone like the library. Nevertheless I let this comment here, if someone else thought the same like me.

Inb4 some tells you you're being too negative 😂

Oblivion sower

And this is why I love your channel. You have interesting ways to build decks. Very entertaining!

I dont know. Its interesting but I dont see how it plays as fun. Targeting a single opponent with many of these spells just to focus down one players library at a time seems like you’re going to make yourself the problem.

Great video! Just a small error in the tittle. It should be built, not build

"The ring tempts you" No thanks, I don't know what that does and I couldn't be bothered to look it up every time I play.

Great ideas! Thanks for sharing. "Domain" seems to be very much going against all the tricks you play in order to get lands out of your opponents' decks. What's your feedback from the field on this?

Your vids are super fun and interesting, however on this one, i have onoy ever played against smeagul mill, literally every single person saw this as golgari mill

Wowsa, Wave of Vitriol. And here I though green didn't have board wipes! Why am I not running this?

If you are doing milling, where is syr Konrad and the dog?

neverending torment is so funny.... CANT CAST SPELLS FOR THE REST OF THE GAME... insane!

Once you remove all of their lands it stops milling, this doesn't work bro. Revealed untill is just reveal if no land is found.

The domain thing is interesting i agree, but youre still playing one of the most salty mill commanders out there. Its mill UNTIL i hit a land, so youre milling all my good stuff and then stealing my land from my grave. And now youre gonna run cards that just exile the best things in my library? Who is going to like playing against this deck my brother? Are you okay?