phenax budget by user2972743

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Phenax, God of Deception serves as the deck's primary mill engine: every creature becomes a 'mill equal to toughness' outlet, so early high-toughness walls (Aegis Turtle, Wall of Lost Thoughts, Drift of Phantasms) create a steady clock. The secondary path is a scaling graveyard synergy built around Consuming Aberration, Undead Alchemist, Keening Stone, and Fraying Sanity, which convert accumulated cards into either a single huge activation or a self-replacing zombie army. Syr Konrad and Duskmantle Guildmage can turn that milling into life loss, giving an alternative finish. The deck is a mid-speed grinder that can rebuild via recursion, but it lacks counterspells and mass protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Cast Down
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Deceit
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grisly Spectacle
  • 1 Guard Gomazoa
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Manic Scribe
  • 1 Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Mnemonic Wall
  • 1 Mortivore
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise from the Grave
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Zombify