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Mill has held steady around 0.4% of the Modern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 0.4% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Modern Mill maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 49 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Fractured Sanity | 4.0 | 100% |
| Hedron Crab | 4.0 | 100% |
| Island | 3.3 | 100% |
| Polluted Delta | 3.9 | 100% |
| Ruin Crab | 4.0 | 100% |
| Watery Grave | 1.8 | 100% |
| Oboro, Palace in the Clouds | 1.0 | 98% |
| Archive Trap | 4.0 | 96% |
| Surgical Extraction | 3.4 | 96% |
| Undercity Sewers | 1.7 | 96% |
| Visions of Beyond | 2.2 | 96% |
| Fatal Push | 3.7 | 94% |
| Tasha's Hideous Laughter | 3.6 | 94% |
| Field of Ruin | 3.3 | 92% |
| Flooded Strand | 2.8 | 90% |
| Swamp | 1.2 | 90% |
| Otawara, Soaring City | 1.0 | 88% |
| Drown in the Loch | 3.6 | 84% |
| Shelldock Isle | 1.0 | 82% |
| Glimpse the Unthinkable | 2.6 | 57% |
| Jace, the Perfected Mind | 1.6 | 41% |
| Exhibition Tidecaller | 2.3 | 39% |
| Preordain | 3.0 | 39% |
| Scalding Tarn | 1.3 | 39% |
| Misty Rainforest | 1.5 | 37% |
| Sink into Stupor | 1.0 | 35% |
| Crypt Incursion | 1.2 | 24% |
| Cephalid Coliseum | 1.0 | 22% |
| Echoing Truth | 1.0 | 20% |
| Murderous Cut | 1.0 | 18% |
| Mikokoro, Center of the Sea | 1.0 | 16% |
| Snow-Covered Island | 1.8 | 16% |
| Founding the Third Path | 2.0 | 12% |
| Prismatic Vista | 1.4 | 10% |
| Snow-Covered Swamp | 1.0 | 10% |
| Ashiok, Dream Render | 1.0 | 8% |
| Hallowed Fountain | 1.0 | 8% |
| Sheoldred's Edict | 1.0 | 8% |
| Spell Snare | 1.3 | 6% |
| Toxic Deluge | 1.0 | 6% |
Typical Modern Mill sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 49 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 49 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Extirpate | 2.4 | 78% |
| Consign to Memory | 3.6 | 69% |
| Crypt Incursion | 1.8 | 63% |
| Ensnaring Bridge | 1.7 | 47% |
| Toxic Deluge | 1.3 | 47% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.7 | 39% |
| The Meathook Massacre | 1.0 | 39% |
| Baleful Mastery | 1.0 | 33% |
| Mystical Dispute | 2.2 | 33% |
| Feed the Cycle | 1.0 | 29% |
| Murderous Cut | 1.0 | 29% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 1.8 | 29% |
| Hurkyl's Recall | 1.8 | 27% |
| Ashiok, Dream Render | 1.0 | 18% |
| Damnation | 1.0 | 18% |
| Echoing Truth | 1.1 | 18% |
| Illness in the Ranks | 1.9 | 18% |
| Vexing Bauble | 3.3 | 18% |
| Engineered Explosives | 1.3 | 16% |
| Bloodchief's Thirst | 1.0 | 14% |
| Long Goodbye | 1.0 | 14% |
| Ghost Quarter | 2.0 | 12% |
| Profane Memento | 2.0 | 12% |
| Tasha's Hideous Laughter | 1.2 | 12% |
| Amulet of Safekeeping | 1.6 | 10% |
| Damping Sphere | 1.8 | 8% |
| Go for the Throat | 1.0 | 8% |
| Surgical Extraction | 1.5 | 8% |
| High Noon | 3.3 | 6% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 6% |
| Chalice of the Void | 3.5 | 4% |
| Leyline of the Void | 3.0 | 4% |
| Riverchurn Monument | 1.0 | 4% |
| Spell Pierce | 3.0 | 4% |
| Wrath of the Skies | 2.5 | 4% |
| Celestial Purge | 1.0 | 2% |
| Ceremonious Rejection | 4.0 | 2% |
| Collective Brutality | 2.0 | 2% |
| Meltdown | 2.0 | 2% |
| Path of Peril | 1.0 | 2% |
Mill Modern FAQ
Is Mill good in Modern right now?
It's a fringe pick right now — Mill is 0.4% of Modern decklists in the last two weeks (down 17% vs the prior window). Best recent finish: 9th (5-2) at Modern Challenge 64 on Jul 20, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Mill?
Nearly every list runs Fractured Sanity, Hedron Crab, and Ruin Crab (99%+ of Modern Mill decklists in the last 90 days). Most lists are Stock (20); variants add Exhibition Tidecaller (10) and Founding the Third Path (5).
What's a typical Modern Mill sideboard?
The most common Modern Mill sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Extirpate (78% of lists), Consign to Memory (69% of lists), Crypt Incursion (63% of lists), and Ensnaring Bridge (47% of lists).
Are there different builds of Modern Mill?
Recent lists split into Exhibition Tidecaller, Founding the Third Path, and Stock approaches.
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Modern Mill decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 249 Modern Mill decklists all-time (7 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Mill result Jul 27, 2026.