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Sometimes people try to use Morphing Jar #2 in a mill, aka
deckout, deck. I'm here to tell you why that isn't a great idea right now.
Now, MJ #2 can be useful, for example, possibly in a trample deck.
But not in mill, why?

Well, why might it appeal to people? It's name includes JAR :)
It can mill spells and traps right from your opponent's deck
into the graveyard. It summons monsters face down, which is a
big plus as the three best mill cards imho are all flips: Cyber
Jar, Morphing Jar and Needle Worm. So where's the problem?

Right now, mainstream decks are running very close to 20-20
for monsters and spells/traps. And very few monsters are over level 5.
That means on average, if your opponent has two monsters down,
they'll lose 2 spells/traps/tribs when MJ #2 gets activated. If
your deck has 20 monsters, it'll probably be too slow to win games.
If you are closer to 1 monster for every 2 spells/traps you'll
actually be milling yourself faster than your opponent unless they
have out at least 2 more monsters than you. That's not good.

The second thing is that the average deck is composed of cards
that function very well independently. Spirit Reaper, DDA and
Smashing Ground don't need a combo to be great. So whatever gets
milled, your opponent's still gonna be drawing independently strong
cards. Mill is very combo dependent. You need cards to accelerate
your flips, cards to recycle them, stall to protect your LP. The
flip effects themselves...so uncontrolled milling will probably hurt
you much worse than your opponent.

Rulings note: In order to be counted in how many monsters your
opponent has to draw to, the monsters have to be actually returned
to your opponent's deck. So you can NOT use Ojama Trio to increase
the count. And Scapegoats don't count against your opponent's total,
either. Too bad.

Now it may be worth siding MJ #2 to bring in if you find yourself
facing a lot of Magic Dimension and Gravekeepers decks. It has better
potential there, but bottom line -- most of the rest of the time it
does more damage to you than to opponent.

Wishing you every success
Change, aka nur27gling@yahoo.com