Dimir Mill 2 by user3372022

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This Dimir deck focuses on converting defensive stats into an offensive win condition using Phenax, God of Deception. Early turns focus on deploying cheap, high-toughness creatures like Aegis Turtle and Wall of Mist alongside mana rocks. Once Phenax enters the battlefield on Turn 5, these blockers turn into potent tap-activated mill engines. The deck accelerates its win condition on Turn 6 with massive mill multipliers such as Consuming Aberration, The Mindskinner, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, alongside heavy sorceries like Traumatize and Maddening Cacophony. Untap synergies from Unstoppable Plan and Patriar's Seal double the mill rate. While the deck boasts high durability against standard combat damage, its clock requires several turns to empty three 99-card libraries, leaving it reliant on timely countermagic and creature pacification auras to stay alive while grinding down opposing libraries.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aegis Turtle
• 1 Amazing Acrobatics
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bane's Contingency
• 1 Blackblade Reforged
• 1 Blur
• 1 Captain N'ghathrod
• 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• 1 Charmed Sleep
• 1 Chase Inspiration
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Confusticate and Bebother
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Cryoshatter
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Displacer Kitten
• 1 Doc Ock, Sinister Scientist
• 1 Drown in Dreams
• 1 Drownyard Amalgam
• 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
• 1 Ember Island Production
• 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
• 1 Extravagant Replication
• 1 Fear of Falling
• 1 Frozen in Ice
• 1 Giant-Sized Flying Ant
• 1 Grappling Kraken
• 1 Grasping Tentacles
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Ice Magic
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
• 13 Island
• 1 It'll Quench Ya!
• 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
• 1 Kitsune's Technique
• 1 Leyline Axe
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Millstone
• 1 Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry
• 1 Multiversal Incursion
• 1 Nimbleclaw Adept
• 1 North Pole Patrol
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Patriar's Seal
• 1 Phenax, God of Deception
• 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1 Retro-Mutation
• 1 Ruin Crab
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Sage's Row Denizen
• 1 Screaming Swarm
• 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Specimen Freighter
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Mindskinner
• 1 Traumatize
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
• 1 Veteran Ice Climber
• 1 Vibrant Cityscape
• 1 Wall of Mist
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wizards of Thay