Help with a deck idea.

[Oragren]

Hello,

I am currently thinkimg about a self mill deck but have no clue as to where to start except for Laboratory Maniac.

I would love some help on this as i think this could be a fun deck.

Any posts would be great please suggest cards and the reson why.

[stvnritch]

If you play blue red you can combo Sphinx's Tutelage with Harmless offering. Harmless offering would give Sphinx's Tutelage to your opponent, this would make you discard the top 2 cards of your library every time an opponent draws a card. Downside is if you dont discard a basic land or 2 different colors you have to keep discarding, upside is you can run out of cards quick this way and Laboratory Maniac becomes extremely useful, another downside is you  mill Laboratory Maniac and without graveyard retrieval its not much good. But hey its an idea lol 

[Oragren]

Thanks for the idea but im not a fan of sphinx's tutelage its so inconsistent. Im looking for a aggro style deck that just keeps firing now that i think about it

[stvnritch]

Oh trust me im no fan of it either lol been on the wrong side of it one to many times, but thought id throw the idea out there

[BlackSusanoo]

You could always use something like Fascination, as it can either mill yourself if you already have your maniac out, or draw if you need to find one. Screeching skaab or Sultai skullkeeper are not very powerful but they can help milling a bit while giving you some board presence. If you want something a bit more powerful or hard to block, try using Aberrant Researcher and Silumgar Sorcerer. Flying is a perfect evergreen for a blue-aggro, and these two can provide extra value (either by milling yourself a bit and become more powerful, or flashing/countering something too big your opponent wants to cast)

[KouriNick]

You could build Modern Dredge. Its a fast aggro deck that mills itself using Dread cards (like Golgari Grave Troll and Life from the Loam) to rapidly fill it's graveyard, then uses creatures like Bloodghast, Narcomoeba, and Prized Amalgam to swarm the board. It's a fun deck that can pump out huge power quickly, and is very difficult for your opponent to disrupt (since almost none of your spells are actually cast and your creatures can all come back from the yard). Obviously, it's weak to graveyard hate, but the sideboard is full of ways to get around that.

A common list looks something like this:

4 Faithless Looting #Discard your Dredge cards or creatures out of your hand, use the draws to dredge. Flashback is also great
4 Insolent Neonate #T1 play, then Sac to discard a Dregdge card, and then dredge instead of drawing
1 Lightning Axe #Removal that gets rid a card in hand (like a gravetroll)
4 Narcomoeba #flying power that triggers Prized Amalgam
4 Bloodghast #does most of the work
4 Tormenting Voice #discard a drege card, dredge and draw
3 Life from the Loam #gets back all the lands you've milled and can even be dredged itself
4 Stinkweed Imp #alternate dredge target when Gravetroll isn't in hand
4 Prized Amalgam #the beats
4 Golgari Grave-Troll #the engine of the deck
3 Conflagrate #dump whole hand, kill pesky opposing stuff
2 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Copperline Gorge
2 Dakmor Salvage
3 Mountain
1 Steam Vents
2 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills

And of course you can alter the list at your leisure and find what you like best! Enjoy

[Oragren]

Thank You BlackSusanoo & KouriNick for your helpful suggestion, i really like the sound of dredge it sounds like something that works well and will defiantly look into this type of deck more.