Phenax by jmidge1994

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Dimir mill control strategy commanded by Phenax, God of Deception. The core game plan uses high-toughness creatures like Charix, the Raging Isle, Tree of Perdition, and graveyard-scaling threats like Consuming Aberration as massive tap-to-mill engines. Phenax provides an indestructible, hard-to-interact-with outlet from the command zone. The deck supplements this board-based attrition with powerful combo packages, including the infinite Duskmantle Guildmage plus Mindcrank pairing and the near-deterministic mill loop of Eater of the Dead with Phenax. Crucially, the list runs a dedicated suite of instant-speed and static graveyard exile effects like Stone of Erech, Crypt Incursion, and Nihil Spellbomb to prevent opponents from weaponizing the cards milled into their graveyards. While thin on low-cost mana rocks, the deck's high land count and redundant defensive bodies ensure reliable curve progression toward a lethal mid-game finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abyssal Harvester
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Bandit's Haul
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cruel Calculations
• 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demonic Counsel
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Doomsday
• 1 Doomsday Excruciator
• 1 Dreadhound
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Duress
• 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1 Eater of the Dead
• 1 Fractured Sanity
• 1 Freed from the Real
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 16 Island
• 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
• 1 Kitsune's Technique
• 1 Macabre Waltz
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Magewright's Stone
• 1 Mathemagics
• 1 Mind Grind
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Mortivore
• 1 Nighthowler
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Patient Rebuilding
• 1 Pemmin's Aura
• 1 Phenax, God of Deception
• 1 Pilfer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Refute
• 1 Restless Reef
• 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1 Ruin Crab
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Serpent's Pass
• 1 Singularity Rupture
• 1 Sinister Hideout
• 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1 Stone of Erech
• 1 Superior Spider-Man
• 15 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Séance Board
• 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 The Water Crystal
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Tormod's Crypt
• 1 Tormod's Cryptkeeper
• 1 Traumatize
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 We Say Thee Nay!
• 1 Wight of Precinct Six