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I didn't think that I'd be writing that a Mill deck won the Grand Prix this weekend, but here we are. The deck is the exact kind of durdly do-nothing that we've come to expect from Andrew Cuneo, and I'm sure that Michael Majors is happy that his hook-up wasn't able to get him an Abzan deck and that he battled with it this weekend.
Izzet Mill
The goal is to not die and then mill them with Sphinx's Tutelage. If that doesn't work, well... Then you lose, because this deck can't deal even a single point of damage to the opponent. Luckily, Sphinx's Tutelage is a very efficient milling machine, and getting it online and casting Treasure Cruise, especially if you have your Alhammarret's Archive in play, will get you very far along your mill plan in addition to stocking your hand.
I built the deck on MTGO as soon as the GP ended and played a match with some concern about opponents being able to destroy the Tutelage, but I pretty easily won a match against Abzan in which two of my Tutelages were destroyed. It just doesn't take long to mill opponents with one copy, and the concern isn't with your win cons getting destroyed, but likely much more with getting run over by aggressive decks. This is why we have a maindeck card as weak as Send to Sleep.
While I thought it might be a cute gimmick at first blush, I know see that this deck is the real deal. It will be interesting to see if the meta is able to adapt in a way that beats this deck and what the evolution will be as we progress towards Battle for Zendikar.
My arch nemesis returns to torment me. It begins.
Could this deck being good mean day,s undoing is a good sideboard card? Refill your hand and erase a lot of turns of milling