The Mindmiller by Darknight1502

Format: Commander

Commander: The Mindskinner

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized mono-blue mill deck helmed by The Mindskinner. Rather than relying solely on incremental mill spells, the deck turns combat into a table-wide mill engine: The Mindskinner is an unblockable 10/1 creature that converts all damage you deal to opponents into simultaneous mill for every opponent. By augmenting The Mindskinner with double strike equipment like Fireshrieker, Leyline Axe, and Genji Glove, cloning it with Spark Double or Auton Soldier, or doubling mill triggers with Bruvac the Grandiloquent, each combat step mills 20 to 40 cards per opponent. A suite of mass mill spells (Fractured Sanity, Maddening Cacophony, Traumatize) and graveyard doublers (Keening Stone, Riverchurn Monument) closes the remaining library count rapidly by Turn 6. The list is supported by efficient low-mana countermagic to protect its fragile 1-toughness commander and defend against table interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Belltower Sphinx
  • 1 Bonehoard
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 29 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trepanation Blade
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble