Phenax Mill by brocoliguy

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated mill strategy helmed by Phenax, God of Deception, leveraging his ability to tap creatures to mill based on toughness. The primary plan involves deploying high-toughness creatures (e.g., Charix, the Raging Isle, Tree of Perdition) and untap synergies, while also assembling infinite mill combos like Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank or Phenax + Eater of the Dead. Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles all mill effects, enabling one-shot wins with Maddening Cacophony (kicked). The deck packs a dense suite of mill spells (Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, Tasha's Hideous Laughter) and recursion via Breach the Multiverse. Win conditions are primarily mill-based, with Syr Konrad, the Grim and Mindcrank providing an alternative infinite loop. The commander is a key engine but not strictly required for all combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mortivore
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Screeching Scorchbeast
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer