Zellix by toddybowl

Format: Commander

Commander: Zellix, Sanity Flayer and Haunted One

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Zellix, Sanity Flayer is the deck's token generator and incidental mill engine, while Haunted One transforms those Horror tokens into recursive attackers with undying. The actual kill is a combo rather than incremental milling: Bruvac plus kicked Maddening Cacophony, or Duskmantle Guildmage plus Mindcrank with Altar of the Brood/Ruin Crab, empties every opponent's library in one turn. Zellix buys time, fills graveyards, and provides chump-blockers; Haunted One gives a beatdown fallback. A small tutor package (Demonic, Grim, Mystical, Lim-Dul's Vault) finds the pieces, and counters, bounces, and graveyard hate protect the combo turn. Bruvac is effectively the hidden commander: most game-ending lines are built around his doubling.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Helm of Obedience
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nephalia Academy
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Pilfered Plans
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer