wow for 3 mana you could destroy someone's deck completely? OP much?
Krausinator
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(12 votes)
I LOVE THIS CARD!!! Perfect for my deck, based around discarding, then taking from opponent's libraries. IT'S A BLUE-BLACK MIRACLE!!!!!
davidhuman
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(10 votes)
its like glimpse the unthinkable again
Dingo777
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
a new facorite of mine, this card rules in sealed and draft due to the smaller mana base, also I got to twincast this card while playtesting my new deck, hehe 35 cards went down the drain, leaving my opponent with 12 cards left in library, mostly lands, Telemin Performance finished him off next turn
Willyum
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(5 votes)
absolulty incredible! reminds me of the ravnica black blue cards. especially good with Dimir Doppelganger the cards in reborn are powerful but i dont think you can make a good deck with just reborn cards.
Dynames
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think it's a great card, since it doesn't let you mill yourself, and is great with Liliana Vess. This with Nemesis of Reason can be leathal far too quickly.
Cenelder
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(6 votes)
average 10-15 card mill for 3 mana
Demonic_Angel13
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(4 votes)
cloven castings it and mill for 8 lands. happened to me at a prerelease.
Westin
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Great card against those opponents that like to run light on the land cards in their deck. On the day we played drafts with the Alara Reborn boosters one guy got 3 of these, and sure enough he killed in the games, in the game I played against him, he took out about 15 of my cards before 4 lands came up. I said right then and there that I've got to get a playset of those, and now after going through an entire Alara Reborn Booster box, I've managed to scrape together 4 of them.
WhiteRoseDuelist
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is a bomb in Limited.
SavageBrain89
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Mind Funeral and Twincast for epic mill. Mind Funeral and Nemesis of Reason for epic mill. Mind Funeral and Oona, Queen of the Fae for epic mill. Mind Funeral and Glimpse the Unthinkable for epic Mill. Actually just about any mill card used with Mind Funeral has great synergy.
metalking
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
4 my millin deck this is a God sent BLACK AND BLUE 4 LIFE =D
Iwaaan
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
A player recently told me that Mind Funeral really isn't that great of a card.
After adding 4 to my mill deck, I can easily say that the player had no idea what the hell he was talking about; This card is amazing. Playing 4 of these with 4 Nemesis of Reason, a Jace Beleren, and Twincast?
Seriously. TWINCAST?!
It's a stupid good card that can mill the HELL out of your opponent...as of now, the highest price I could find for this card was 99 cents. I wonder if anyone has read what this card does.
lol.
MoonUnderaMask
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
better than glimpse! very strong, one of the best cards for library burning decks, undoubtedly!
Ciper
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
If the libary is emptied without a fourth land being revealed then you put all the revealed cards into the GY.
Mikezila
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Not to death. Save a couple till they've already put out a bunch of lands. Then it's Miller Time.
One_Winged_Angel
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I had the joy of running this and having the mana to hit my opponent with this and Twincast right after using a Traumatize. He was left with 3 cards. All it took from there was a bit of tapping from Cathartic adepts. This card is mean since it's one of the few mill cards that hunt lands specifically.
Eggroll
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I loooooove Cloven Casting this card. An appropriate string of carefully selected curse words flow out of my opponents mouth when that happens. :D
inmypants22
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
whats great about this card is that even if you didnt mill a whole lot of cards, 4 lands just went into their graveyard.
i have some good experiences with this card, once, i milled my cousin for 34 cards.
Grimn777
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
special hint for those of you paying blue black mill like me. Try and play as many of these as you can BEFORE resolving haunting echoes. Afterwords, these are like 4 card mill spells... So, if you have the option, save the tome scours and such till after. Oh, and wait a turn on jace's ultimate till after haunting echoes, that is usually game. 5/5
wicked_pick
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Simply the best mill card for 3 reasons:
1. cheap cost 2. you also buried 4 lands! just like you destroyed a land! 3. can actually mill a lot against your opponents.
This has got to be the sickest mill card ive ever seen. Seriously wipes out green decks after the've manna accelerted for a few turns since they don't have many land cards left. Use with Tome Scour(M10), Lich Lord of Unx, Barbed Shocker, Nemesis of Reason, a few Memory Erosions, and maybe even Jace Beleren and you have a pretty mean and cheap to play mill deck. I love p***ing off people with this card. :D
Schlappi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh dear whoever-you-are-Goood...^^
Finally, after about 20 boosters or so, I got this card once and I even got to cast it in 1 or 2 games already. Milled my opponent for 25 cards once - I felt so GOOD & POWERFUL...(should that make me worry...?^^)!
;-)
Delta556
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play this w/Dralnu, lich lord & play them out of your graveyard one more time..... 4=8! like you would ever have to use them 8x. :)
xonix2002
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm liking the flavour text.
Moosecadet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
More like Mime Funeral!
But seriously, good card. 4/5
Mikolash
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Screw this card. Gaea's Blessing for anyone who wants to counter this nonsense.
klauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
use this then Bitter Ordeal in a combo, worst case scenario is you mill 4-lands and exile 5 cards you want from his library, not bad for a 6 mana combo
flzooman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
love playing with this card, but haate playing someone with it
Ritius
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it... this card was born to be Cascaded into: Kathari Remnant and Deny Reality are your best friends with this card. It seems a little reckless, but having this as the only three to cast card, and Kathari as the only four to cast card, and no other lower CMC cards in your deck than 5 will means you will score this every time you cascade, so 12 chances in your library to get it. And since each one removes 4 lands, totaling to 16, plus the four or five your opponent is likely to have already dropped, you probably win. Supplement with higher CMC control and lands that function as creatures like Spawning Pool, and you've got a competitive deck.
nineyears
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Mind Funeral is nice. especially if you are running things like Rise From The Grave. Mill and steal a bomb from their graveyard, then give them a taste of their own medicine.
Mind Funeral es grandioso. especialmente si tienes cosas como Rise From The Grave. Basia su libreria y luego le robas una bomba de su cemeterio, y despues le das de su propia medicina.
GrimGorgonBC
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Even just twin casting this it brutal, nevermind the huge combos ppl come up with using this card.4.7/5
@klauth: The Bitter Ordeal combo wouldn't work. Creature/land/etc. cards aren't permanents if they never enter the battlefield, so milling won't trigger Gravestorm.
Azymth
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Holy Cheating card Batman! 3 mana? Are you kidding me? And I thought traumatize was bad! Grinding out is such an insulting way to lose. Out of curiosity, are there any cards that can put a bunch of cards back into your graveyard after some weasel pulls this Mind funk out on you? I don't mind this type of stuff if I'm playing a graveyard deck, but otherwise they just kill the mood.
Studoku
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0)(29 votes)
Putting the fun into funeral.
Gaussgoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The first time I saw this card I must have done a quadruple take. For the paltry 3CC, this thing will absolutely terrorize your opponents. A must-have in any deck that uses graveyards and/or sets out to mill the opponent from the game.
Very effective, easily a 5/5 card.
GrimjawxRULES
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Davidhuman : "it's glimpse the unthinkable again"
- lol imagine playing an actual Glimpse followed by this on the third turn >_> I've milled decks for 22 cards and more using this card. It may be luck, but that's still incredibly powerful for an uncommon.
Guntz1092
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i played this against a deck that uses the mox artifacts to produce mana
Johnald
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Absolutely awful design. :| Entirely too devastating for it's cost for it to be anywhere near fair.
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
should cost {3}{U}{B} question, if they run out of lands before they hit 4 and their entire deck has been run through, what happens?
surewhynot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hit someone with a Sadistic Sacrament and take out the first three lands that you see, then play this for one hell of a 6 mana mill.
RowanKeltizar
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
creepy...
fernaske
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
One of my favorite cards. Got a play set of these babies along with 18 other cards signed today by rk post at GP Manila. Totally worth the four hour commute to and from home.
AzirSeroz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even if they only discarded the lands, it would be well worth the price. I have one in my deck and I mill anywhere between 10 and 20 cards. A full playset would bring a deck down to its knees, leaving the opponent down 16 mana. Simply exile the graveyard and you'll have no problems cleaning house. BU mill ftw.
Poptart50100
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card against a Goblin Charbelcher deck and its GG for them. Oh whats that you only had a measly island in your deck for Mystical tutor? Should have packed some more lands.
Gezus82
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Type your comment here.
qaq456
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
that. is. just. unfair. too good! should be rare or mythic rare... too good
Guest513736147
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(43 votes)
I haven't seen any rock-solid math for this card on here yet, so I programmed a simple simulation to see how many cards on average this spell would mill. I used a deck size of 60 cards, casting this spell after the opponent had drawn their starting hand of 7, plus 3 cards, which seems reasonable given that this is a 3-mana spell. I varied the lands between 19 (hyper-aggressive) and 26 (hyper-control) to show the effectiveness spectrum. The simulation was run one million times for each scenario. Here we go:
Average cards milled from deck with 19 land cards: 12.2 Average cards milled from deck with 20 land cards: 11.62 Average cards milled from deck with 21 land cards: 11.09 Average cards milled from deck with 22 land cards: 10.61 Average cards milled from deck with 23 land cards: 10.17 Average cards milled from deck with 24 land cards: 9.76 Average cards milled from deck with 25 land cards: 9.38 Average cards milled from deck with 26 land cards: 9.04
We can conclude from these results that this card is more effective against decks light on lands (obviously), but specifically that this seems to be, on average against the typical deck you would face, strictly worse than Glimpse the Unthinkable. That said, it's a) in standard, b) uncommon, and c) undoubtedly more fun to play than the aforementioned benchmark mill spell. I give it a 4.677/5.
spaceninja_222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is amazing. Bloodchief ascension is fun. Traumatize is good (for grabbing a lot of land out of the target deck). I use three in my miller-killer.
Akaleth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not the quickest combo ever, but hilarious with Echo Mage
NecroticNobody
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
NecroticNobody could not stop drooling over this card to write a proper comment
Baconradar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is superb, if a little bit overrated. For three mana in the definitive mill colours, you are going to be blasting, realistically, around 10 cards off their library. That makes it like having a second glimpse the unthinkable.
But a lot of mill decks can, and will, bounce stuff to the top of the opponents library. If these aren't lands, you are essentially able to blast through them for free. The pyschological impact of the card shouldn't be overlooked.
I give it 4.5 for power, fun and originality.
rctoons
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(4 votes)
i had to counter this spell then Extirpate it.. this card is brutal! yet fun when you cast it :)
guitargamer79
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
The true definition of the term "broken" in Magic the Gathering.....
djflo
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(10 votes)
Guest, I love the statistical approach. Glimpse the Unthinkable is generally the more efficient card. However, the great thing about this is that so many people thin their decks of lands disproportionately. So as they get more lands out, this will probably be more effective than Glimpse. I'd stick it in against decks using harrow and the like.
Musume
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I really wish this was back in standard. This would *@%! Valakut decks like nobody's business. =
Moleland
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Evil, Evil card.
InHarmsWay-
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
People hate to play against this card cause I see it in their faces!
PhyrexianAdvocate
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now that all of your Valakut's are under spreading seas, let's see...how many lands did you yank out of your deck with Primeval Titan as it crashed repeatedly into my Wall of Frost?
All of them you say?
Well, have I got a card for you.
sarroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't care if it costs {1} more than Glimpse the Unthinkable and is much less effective; it's less than 1/3 of Glimpse's price. Plus, it's quite possible this, while powerful, is more balanced than Glimpse. I'd feel less bad running it at least.
Vanisher65
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of my favourite cards! 5/5
Discoduck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mycosynth Lattice + Splinter targeting their basic land followed by Mind Funeral? You're right, too costly and color-intensive. But satisfying.
kor6sic6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Killer combo against any mono-deck: Wind Zendikon on opponents land followed by Eradicate, then one of these bad boys. Auto library death. I've had it happen to me in a mill-deck frenzy match-up.
Tetsu_tora
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play with 4, burn 16 out of an opponents likely 20 lands. This card is sick...I would wrap a deck around this spell...
Ava_Adore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I remember how deadly this card was at the prerelease,
One guy pulled 3 of them, his deck was pretty good, I managed to beat him with nemesis of reason by milling him to death before he could mill me!
@Discoduck I been trying to pull that off for a while, now liquimetal coating makes it easy
heavyterror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
4x mind funeral 4x sadistic sacrament 4x dark ritual
woot woot.
Kitty_the_Kat
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Would be better if you could target yourself..
alucard311
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This needs to be seriously reassessed now the the fetches are so common. As someone ahead of me said, now that Valakut is back and monored/vampires is still running scalding tarn, this card might be able to actually kill somebody.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is there a place in Alara where the conscious severed heads of Vedalken are dumped into a heaping pile? Or is this merely an artistic representation of mill? The former disturbs me.
Minus_Prime
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@kryptnyt- I'm thinking it's an actual mass grave. Only the heads go in because their etherium body enhancements get recycled.
Gabriel422
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Against Manaless Dredge / Ichorid, this could be an instant win or loss depending on if they have at least four lands left in their library. (or actually, if they play four lands at all.)
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I think my favorite part is that this guarantees four lands into the graveyard. That can be serious tempo disruption to nearly anyone, except for huge mana accel decks I suppose.
Astronautic_Bullfrog
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I cringe every time I see somebody commenting that milling 4 lands is in any way disruptive of your opponent's tempo, or "like land destruction." It is in no way the case. Milling cards from the library to the graveyard feels like you are getting rid of those cards, but you are not. It is statistically irrelevant and meaningless. Unless you got rid of their last 4 lands, your opponent will basically be just as likely to draw another land as they are to draw a spell, since what you dumped into the grave will roughly be the same ratio as what is in the library. The same goes for any given spell. The likelihood of card X being on top of your opponent's library is exactly the same as card X being 10 cards down and drawing it after you mill them.
Dr.Pingas
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't get this card. Not it's effect or anything, just the art/name/ect. What the heck is a "mind funeral", and what does it have to do with lands and heads?
And, astronaut_bullfrog dude, I can see your point, but I also get why people say it messes with tempo. Sure, milling lands A-D wont really effect the placement of land E at all, it actually gets them out of the way so you can get land E faster; but statistically, it does mess with the overall number of lands. Just let the people who love mill cling to their weird fantasies of slowing people down.
PeanutTheDestroyer
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
my experience with this card has been that it mills between 15-26 on average, but even if you mill only 4 and they are all lands early in the game that can be devastating.
ignaeon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
my first thought was how hilarious to wind up using this against a person who runs a manland based deck...
This card is a fun, but PAINFUL mill card. I'm surprised that innistrad didn't reprint this, it would've fit so well.
As for the rating, In a mill deck, this is perfect. OR, if you manage to extract every land from someone's deck (liquimetal coating + splinter, or other combos), insta-kill!
Just be warned, you might not get far, if their lands are clustered. its a fun mill card, which is quite an oxymoron.
5/5
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This flavor text proves that Sharuum is a badass.
Blackworm_Bloodworm
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Gummi heads!
A good, fun card, but it'd be nice if it wasn't so expensive. Here's hoping for a reprint. With the same art, of course.
SnackyNorph
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dear god. Awesome mill spell. Turn 1: Island, Jace's Phantasm Turn 2: Island, two more Jace's Phantasms, swing for 1 Turn 3: Swamp, this; if they mill for at least 10, swing for 15. Seems pretty straightforward to me. 5/5.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Got this in the same pack as a Nemesis of Reason. Was pretty awesome
Glimpse the Unthinkable is better not only because it's more stable (always 10 cards), but also cost one less. That said, nothing keeps us from using both, GtU on turn two, then MF on turn three.
Layk
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
New Gatecrash spoilers show Consuming Aberration which is a kind of Mind Funeral and a part of Sewer Nemesis rolled into one, and to think, I used to play with those cards separately.
Zom-B
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I run this with Ghost Quarter and Archive Trap. Don't search your deck for a replacement land? My Ghost Quarter is as effective as a Strip Mine. You do search for another land? I get to Archive Trap you and later my Mind Funeral will be more potent.
Doghealer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dangit Wizards, why didn't you reprint this in Gatecrash? It thematically fits pretty much everything it could possibly thematically fit! That, and I want to see mill viable in GTC Standard!
If you are thinking of creating a Modern Mill/Control deck, this could usually be better than Glimpse.
Look on any of the "Decks of the Week", and you'll see that the Modern finalists consistently play fetchlands (like Verdant Catacombs and Scalding Tarn). That means that although they are thinning their decks down, they will also have fewer lands in their deck, and thus, more cards to mill with Mind Funeral.
Perhaps the most necessary card to play with this (and... well, all mill decks) is Surgical Extraction/Extirpate. Extraction is essentially a free "well, now I see your strategy. I'm going to make it not work", while Extirpate is a "I'm going to screw your deck up. Don't try to stop me".
'sigh' with this as well, it looks like Deathrite Shaman can fit in YET ANOTHER modern deck.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
"Mind Funeral" sounds like an awesome name for a metal band. The card's pretty good too.
Comments (91)
BLACK AND BLUE 4 LIFE
=D
After adding 4 to my mill deck, I can easily say that the player had no idea what the hell he was talking about; This card is amazing. Playing 4 of these with 4 Nemesis of Reason, a Jace Beleren, and Twincast?
Seriously.
TWINCAST?!
It's a stupid good card that can mill the HELL out of your opponent...as of now, the highest price I could find for this card was 99 cents. I wonder if anyone has read what this card does.
lol.
i have some good experiences with this card, once, i milled my cousin for 34 cards.
1. cheap cost
2. you also buried 4 lands! just like you destroyed a land!
3. can actually mill a lot against your opponents.
Best to be paired with Haunting Echoes.
Finally, after about 20 boosters or so, I got this card once and I even got to cast it in 1 or 2 games already. Milled my opponent for 25 cards once - I felt so GOOD & POWERFUL...(should that make me worry...?^^)!
;-)
But seriously, good card. 4/5
Mind Funeral es grandioso. especialmente si tienes cosas como Rise From The Grave. Basia su libreria y luego le robas una bomba de su cemeterio, y despues le das de su propia medicina.
Very effective, easily a 5/5 card.
- lol imagine playing an actual Glimpse followed by this on the third turn >_>
I've milled decks for 22 cards and more using this card. It may be luck, but that's still incredibly powerful for an uncommon.
question, if they run out of lands before they hit 4 and their entire deck has been run through, what happens?
Average cards milled from deck with 19 land cards: 12.2
Average cards milled from deck with 20 land cards: 11.62
Average cards milled from deck with 21 land cards: 11.09
Average cards milled from deck with 22 land cards: 10.61
Average cards milled from deck with 23 land cards: 10.17
Average cards milled from deck with 24 land cards: 9.76
Average cards milled from deck with 25 land cards: 9.38
Average cards milled from deck with 26 land cards: 9.04
We can conclude from these results that this card is more effective against decks light on lands (obviously), but specifically that this seems to be, on average against the typical deck you would face, strictly worse than Glimpse the Unthinkable. That said, it's a) in standard, b) uncommon, and c) undoubtedly more fun to play than the aforementioned benchmark mill spell. I give it a 4.677/5.
But a lot of mill decks can, and will, bounce stuff to the top of the opponents library. If these aren't lands, you are essentially able to blast through them for free. The pyschological impact of the card shouldn't be overlooked.
I give it 4.5 for power, fun and originality.
All of them you say?
Well, have I got a card for you.
5/5
I've had it happen to me in a mill-deck frenzy match-up.
One guy pulled 3 of them, his deck was pretty good, I managed to beat him with nemesis of reason by milling him to death before he could mill me!
@Discoduck I been trying to pull that off for a while, now liquimetal coating makes it easy
4x sadistic sacrament
4x dark ritual
woot woot.
And, astronaut_bullfrog dude, I can see your point, but I also get why people say it messes with tempo. Sure, milling lands A-D wont really effect the placement of land E at all, it actually gets them out of the way so you can get land E faster; but statistically, it does mess with the overall number of lands. Just let the people who love mill cling to their weird fantasies of slowing people down.
As for the rating, In a mill deck, this is perfect. OR, if you manage to extract every land from someone's deck (liquimetal coating + splinter, or other combos), insta-kill!
Just be warned, you might not get far, if their lands are clustered. its a fun mill card, which is quite an oxymoron.
5/5
A good, fun card, but it'd be nice if it wasn't so expensive. Here's hoping for a reprint.
With the same art, of course.
Turn 1: Island, Jace's Phantasm
Turn 2: Island, two more Jace's Phantasms, swing for 1
Turn 3: Swamp, this; if they mill for at least 10, swing for 15.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. 5/5.
Look on any of the "Decks of the Week", and you'll see that the Modern finalists consistently play fetchlands (like Verdant Catacombs and Scalding Tarn). That means that although they are thinning their decks down, they will also have fewer lands in their deck, and thus, more cards to mill with Mind Funeral.
Perhaps the most necessary card to play with this (and... well, all mill decks) is Surgical Extraction/Extirpate. Extraction is essentially a free "well, now I see your strategy. I'm going to make it not work", while Extirpate is a "I'm going to screw your deck up. Don't try to stop me".
'sigh' with this as well, it looks like Deathrite Shaman can fit in YET ANOTHER modern deck.