I put it in my ANT sideboard once against Belcher, Oops All Spells, and Manaless Dredge. A turn one Mind Funeral against one of these players will result in a deck being thrown across the room 40% of the time.
Sarcastic-but-also-honest answer: Never, because one-shot mill effects suck.
Mind Funeral accomplishes absolutely nothing for your board state on its own until that last card is milled. There are a few cards like Jace's Phantasm that like you to mill cards, but none are particularly powerful and you're also risking enabling your opponent if they have Flashback spells or something like Whip of Erebos.
Ask yourself this question: If Mind Funeral milled cards from the bottom of your opponent's deck, would you be as excited about it? In 90% of situations, the deck is random and top and bottom are the same.
Playing mill is like playing a deck full of Lava Spikes. Until you hit your ninth spike, you haven't done anything useful.
Of course, if you enjoy playing mill, by all means go for it. But don't be under the impression that it is as effective as playing cards that affect the board or hand.
No, if you aren't a mill deck, don't use it. There's basically no reason to run dedicated mill cards in non-mill decks (outside of things like Nephalia Drownyard in a control deck as an alternate win condition that isn't actually taking up spell slots). Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't even remotely understand how the game works.
An accurate response to his question isn't helpful?
The first quote is the question, should you play Mind Funeral early or late. All of the following either don't answer the actual question asked or are not helpful in their answer. The question was not "should I play Mind Funeral?" but "when should it be played, early or late?"
If I make a thread and ask "When's the best time to Lightning Bolt my face when I'm at 3 life, during their turn or my turn?", is the only acceptable answer "Whenever you have spare mana."?
If someone posts a thread asking a question that stems from a severe lack of understanding of the game's/card's mechanics, it is completely fair to treat him as a new player and give him related advice. This isn't the rulings forum. We're not strictly limited to answering exactly the question asked and nothing more.
You know, I'm finding it awfully hilarious that Xger made an additional post, rather than letting the thread which had obviously run its course die, to complain about Jerno not contributing to the thread's original purpose by making a post that doesn't contribute to the thread's original question, either. Of course, it's even more amusing that he's continuing to do so.
The bottom line is: You don't get to police the threads on this board for material that doesn't quite settle with your sensibilities, leave that responsibility to the moderators. The guy was asking for advice, and I don't see the rules being as stringent on this forum for what composes off topic discussion (so there was nothing wrong with Jerno providing advice with the flow of the discussion versus just answering the thread's question), so I don't really see why you're going so far out of your way to rag on Jerno except for the fact that he disagreed with you initially. Which, if that's the case, that's immature and it'd be nice if you'd be the bigger person and just let him have the last word rather than continuing to post because this is not going to get anyone anywhere, right?
Or you can just keep on what you're doing. Not like it's my problem, lol.
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The first quote is the question, should you play Mind Funeral early or late. All of the following either don't answer the actual question asked or are not helpful in their answer. The question was not "should I play Mind Funeral?" but "when should it be played, early or late?"
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If someone posts a thread asking a question that stems from a severe lack of understanding of the game's/card's mechanics, it is completely fair to treat him as a new player and give him related advice. This isn't the rulings forum. We're not strictly limited to answering exactly the question asked and nothing more.
The bottom line is: You don't get to police the threads on this board for material that doesn't quite settle with your sensibilities, leave that responsibility to the moderators. The guy was asking for advice, and I don't see the rules being as stringent on this forum for what composes off topic discussion (so there was nothing wrong with Jerno providing advice with the flow of the discussion versus just answering the thread's question), so I don't really see why you're going so far out of your way to rag on Jerno except for the fact that he disagreed with you initially. Which, if that's the case, that's immature and it'd be nice if you'd be the bigger person and just let him have the last word rather than continuing to post because this is not going to get anyone anywhere, right?
Or you can just keep on what you're doing. Not like it's my problem, lol.
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