Captain I LIKE THIS v12 FINAL by Beyondthebeat

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Dimir mill and combo-control strategy led by Captain N'ghathrod. While the commander presents a thematic horror-tribal front that mills opponents through combat and steals their best creatures and artifacts, the deck's primary competitive path is a compact two-card infinite combo featuring Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank. Supported by transmute tutors like Muddle the Mixture and Shred Memory alongside artifact search via Tribute Mage, the deck reliably assembles and executes its win condition on Turn 4. A robust interactive shell of low-cost counterspells, efficient removal, and asymmetric hate pieces such as Ashiok, Dream Render and Dauthi Voidwalker disrupts opposing game plans while protecting development. If the primary combo is disrupted, the deck smoothly transitions into a punishing midrange plan, deploying heavy hitters like Consuming Aberration, The Mindskinner, and Syr Konrad, the Grim to mill libraries and drain life totals through combat and reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 War Room