Oh Capt My Capt by Theverb

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir Horror/mill deck is helmed by Captain N'ghathrod, leveraging menace to push combat damage while the commander's end-step trigger steals the best artifact or creature from each opponent's graveyard each turn. The primary plan is an aggressive mill-and-steal tempo: assemble a Horror-heavy board, mill opponents with combat triggers and spells like Traumatize and Maddening Cacophony, then reap value via the commander and cards like Elder Brain and Brainstealer Dragon. The ultimate win condition is the deterministic infinite-mill-lock pair Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank; secondary paths include mass-mill through Phenax, God of Deception and a stack of cheap instant interaction to protect the turn. The deck plays a grind-it-out game with incremental advantage and one big combo punch.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avengers Monitoring Station
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hope's Aero Magic
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer