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Drowned Secrets

Enchantment1 generic manaBlue mana

Mill as a kill condition usually demands its own dedicated engine, but this enchantment piggybacks on a deck already built to win another way. The trigger keys off casting blue spells, not creatures or attacks, so it rewards a control or spell-velocity shell that was going to chain cantrips, counters, and card draw regardless. Two cards per spell sounds slow until you count how many blue spells a turn-cycle in such a deck actually contains; the mill total becomes a function of how hard you are already trying to do the thing you wanted to do anyway. That is the design tension it resolves: it converts incidental spell volume into a clock against the library while leaving the primary plan intact, no separate package of mill payoffs required. The cost is fragility and reach. Nothing happens the turn it resolves, it replaces none of the cards it commits, and it leans entirely on a deck that stays blue and stays active. Against a single opponent it is a patient secondary win; the trigger naming a target player means it scales sideways in a multiplayer pod, picking off whoever is closest to decking or simply spreading the pressure around. It is a payoff that asks a deck to be good at being blue, and pays out in graveyards.

Drowned Secrets (pgrn)
PGRN · #39prare
Pricing
Normal: $2.27
Foil: $4.74
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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