New Untitled Deck by megagigantus

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Combo and Mill strategy led by Phenax, God of Deception. The game plan operates on two complementary axes: establishing a defensive fortress of high-toughness creatures that tap to mill large chunks of opposing libraries, while assembling compact game-ending combos. The primary win condition centers on the infinite loop between Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank, which drains and mills all three opponents simultaneously upon dealing a single point of damage or milling a single card. Backup win conditions include Bruvac the Grandiloquent paired with a kicked Maddening Cacophony, Isochron Scepter generating infinite mana and untaps with Dramatic Reversal, and Bloodchief Ascension loops. Robust card draw engines like Rhystic Study and Sire of Stagnation keep resources flowing, while free interaction like Fierce Guardianship and Deadly Rollick protects development and shields combo execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mnemonic Wall
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Wall
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Watery Grave