Mind Flayarrrs by Docentus

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Horror tribal build centered on Captain N'ghathrod. The strategy focuses on deploying evasive Horrors in the early game, curving into the commander to mill opponents upon dealing combat damage, and stealing high-value creatures and artifacts directly from opposing graveyards at each end step. It converts opponent graveyards into massive offensive pressure through cards like Consuming Aberration and Guiltfeeder. While the deck possesses explosive midgame board presence and resilient reanimation lines, it relies heavily on creature combat and unhindered graveyards. Its lack of tutors makes it reliant on steady card draw, but its tribal synergies and asymmetric wipes like Crippling Fear allow it to dominate casual and mid-power tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Horror
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 From the Catacombs
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Horrid Shadowspinner
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Vashta Nerada
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer