Phenax, God of Deception by Meecrob

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir control deck utilizes Phenax, God of Deception to convert high-toughness creatures into repeatable mill engines. The primary strategy grinds down opposing libraries using incremental mill permanents like Ruin Crab, Court of Cunning, and Phenax taps, scaling rapidly alongside high-toughness threats like Consuming Aberration and Mortivore. As graveyards fill, the deck exploits the discarded cards through reanimation, Syr Konrad triggers, and direct theft engines like Geth and The Scarab God. The primary infinite win condition is the two-card combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, which causes a lethal damage and mill loop whenever an opponent loses life or a card enters an opposing graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1 Blast Zone
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Cunning
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dictate of Kruphix
• 1 Dreamborn Muse
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Fractured Sanity
• 1 Fraying Sanity
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Howling Mine
• 6 Island
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Memory Erosion
• 1 Mesmeric Orb
• 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1 Mind Grind
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mortivore
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Phenax, God of Deception
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Praetor's Grasp
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychic Corrosion
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Ruin Crab
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Singularity Rupture
• 1 Sire of Stagnation
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
• 1 The Haunt of Hightower
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 The Water Crystal
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Undead Alchemist
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Visions of Beyond
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
• 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer