Horrors, Oh No by fr3nziii

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir Horror-tribal mill deck helmed by Captain N'ghathrod. The game plan is to deploy a board of Horrors, attack to mill opponents (N'ghathrod grants menace and mills on combat damage), then steal the best cards from opponents' graveyards each end step. The deck closes games through several mill-out lines: Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubling every "mill half" effect (Traumatize, kicked Maddening Cacophony, Cut Your Losses) into a full-library kill; the Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank infinite life-loss/mill loop; Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank chains; and combat mill from The Mindskinner, Fleet Swallower, and Terisian Mindbreaker. The commander is a value engine rather than a combo piece - the deck can execute its plan without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gluttonous Slug
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Horrid Shadowspinner
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Liability
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 2 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator