Horror by sleeth

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Dimir Horror tribal and mill-reanimator deck commanded by Captain N'ghathrod. The strategy accelerates on Turn 2 with efficient artifact ramp to cast the commander on Turn 4. From there, it leverages Horrors with built-in menace to deal combat damage, milling chunks of opponents' libraries and stealing their most powerful milled creatures and artifacts at each end step. On Turn 5, it deploys dominant Horrors such as Consuming Aberration, Sludge Monster, or Uchuulon to create an overwhelming, asymmetric board presence. The deck maintains table control with low-cost countermagic, spot removal, and asymmetric sweepers like Crux of Fate and Cyclonic Rift. Opponents are systematically eliminated across Turns 6 through 8 via heavy combat damage, graveyard scaling via Guiltfeeder, and massive mills.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chupacabra Echo
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer