Magic the Gathering (MTG) Commander - Cloudhoof Kirin EDH Mill Deck

by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist

While milling your opponents out of cards isn’t always the best strategy in Commander, there is one mono-Blue Commander who combines Spirit Tribal with mill! Meet Cloudhoof Kirin, who mills X cards where X is the converted mana cost of an arcane or Spirit spell you cast. Granted it only affects one target player. It may not be the most efficient way to mill ever. But it’s at least fun.

In Shadows Over Innistrad, Cloudhoof Kirin got a boost from a new Spirit, Rattlechains, and a new mill card, Startled Awake. Rattlechains allows you to play any of your Spirits at instant speed, which makes Cloudhoof’s ability that much better. Startled Awake can return from the graveyard transformed as a Persistent Nightmare, which then returns to your hand after it deals combat damage. While it's not the most efficient spell, it's reusable.

Here’s a sample decklist you can build from.

Commander
1     Cloudhoof Kirin     3uu     

Creatures (37)
1     Dreamcatcher     u     
1     Kami of the Crescent Moon     uu    
1     Mindshrieker     1u     
1     Rattlechains     1u     
1     Shape Stealer     uu     
1     Shapesharer     1u     
1     Shriekgeist     1u     
1     Drift of Phantasms     2u     
1     Kira, Great Glass-Spinner     1uu     
1     Lantern Spirit     2u     
1     Niblis of the Breath     2u     
1     Riddlekeeper     2u     
1     Sage's Row Denizen     2u    
1     Dreamborn Muse     2uu     
1     Dungeon Geists     2uu     
1     Phyrexian Metamorph     3up     
1     Rushing-Tide Zubera     2uu     
1     Sakashima the Impostor     2uu     
1     Shimmering Glasskite     3u     
1     Solemn Simulacrum     4     
1     Soulsworn Spirit     3u     
1     Tower Geist     3u     
1     Tradewind Rider     3u     
1     Battleground Geist     4u     
1     Kiri-Onna     4u     
1     Quillmane Baku     4u    
1     Soul Seizer     3uu     
1     Sturmgeist     3uu    
1     Teller of Tales     3uu    
1     Deadeye Navigator     4uu    
1     Keiga, the Tide Star     5u    
1     Sire of the Storm     4uu   
1     Soramaro, First to Dream     4uu     
1     Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar     5u     
1     Patron of the Moon     5uu     
1     The Unspeakable     6uuu     
1     Myojin of Seeing Winds     7uuu    

Spells (24)
1     Tormod's Crypt     0     
1     Personal Tutor     u  
1     Reach Through Mists     u    
1     Relic of Progenitus     1   
1     Sol Ring     1     
1     Consuming Vortex     1u    
1     Counterspell     uu    
1     Dampen Thought     1u   
1     Disrupting Shoal     xuu    
1     Eye of Nowhere     uu    
1     Psychic Puppetry     1u     
1     Sapphire Medallion     2     
1     Stream of Consciousness     1u     
1     Veil of Secrecy     1u     
1     Eerie Procession     2u   
1     Jace Beleren     1uu   
1     Rhystic Study     2u    
1     Sift Through Sands     1uu  
1     Toils of Night and Day     2u     
1     Startled Awake     2uu     
1     Jace, Memory Adept     3uu     
1     Petals of Insight     4u     
1     Ribbons of the Reikai     4u     
1     Reweave     5u     

Lands (38)
1     Halimar Depths       
30     Island       
1     Lonely Sandbar       
1     Myriad Landscape       
1     Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx       
1     Reliquary Tower       
1     Remote Isle       
1     Shelldock Isle       
1     Temple of the False God       

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