Self Mill by ImUrNemesis

Format: Commander

Commander: Grolnok, the Omnivore

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Simic deck leverages Grolnok, the Omnivore to convert combat steps and self-mill triggers into massive card advantage. By stocking cards in croak exile, Grolnok creates a virtually untouchable secondary hand filled with permanents. The list maximizes creature and permanent counts to ensure nearly every milled card is playable from exile. Type changers like Arcane Adaptation turn the entire board into Frogs, triggering rapid library-milling bursts. Once the engine is established, the deck rapidly empties its library to win through Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, or closes the game by overwhelming opponents with Craterhoof Behemoth and Scute Swarm. Heavy equipment and creature-based protection help preserve Grolnok against spot removal, though the list sacrifices reactive interaction to maintain maximum permanent density.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Aetherworks Marvel
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Augmenter Pugilist // Echoing Equation
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chalk Outline
  • 1 Chronic Flooding
  • 1 Clement, the Worrywort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Diplomatic Immunity
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dredger's Insight
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Grolnok, the Omnivore
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lasyd Prowler
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lilypad Village
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plaxmanta
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Quest for Ancient Secrets
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Slogurk, the Overslime
  • 1 Stickytongue Sentinel
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Turntimber Sower
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Willow Geist
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wood Sage
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth