Is a haunting echoes + traumatize mill deck viable in pre-modern Magic?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Something like this (needs polishing):

4 Haunting Echoes

4 Traumatize

4 Millstone

4 Grindstone

4 Dark Ritual

4 Mutilate

4 Recoil

4 Duress

4 Cabal Therapy

24 lands

SB:
4 Powder Kegs

2 Feldon's Cane

4 Engineered Plague

4 No Mercy

1 Persecute

The idea here is to run the opponent out of cards by removing their entire deck (except lands) from the game.

[AI Opinion]

It’s a super fun idea thematically 😈 but in Premodern it’s pretty clunky and slow.

Haunting Echoes + Traumatize shines when you can reliably fill their graveyard first, but here you’re spending 5 mana on Traumatize and 5 on Echoes with almost no ramp or control shell. Millstone/Grindstone are very mana‑hungry and inefficient compared to actual Premodern wincons.

Black control is solid in Premodern, but if you want Echoes to work, you usually pair it with heavy discard and removal, then use it as a finisher rather than building the whole deck around mill. As-is, this list probably folds to fast aggro and combo before the engine comes online. 🖤📜