Phenax, Mill God (B4) by andresh86

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a dedicated mill deck helmed by Phenax, God of Deception, leveraging its high-toughness creatures and tap-to-mill ability to drain opponents' libraries. The primary win path is through mill, with several infinite combo lines that create loops of mill and life loss. The deck also includes a strong suite of card draw and selection to find its key pieces, and a surprising number of overlapping combo interactions that give it resilient finishing power. Phenax itself is indestructible and serves as a consistent engine, but the deck can win without it through combos like Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank or Bruvac the Grandiloquent + kicked Maddening Cacophony. The overall strategy is to control the board with a handful of removal and mass bounce while gradually or suddenly milling opponents out.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar of the Brood
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Cunning
• 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1 Eater of the Dead
• 1 Eddie the Judge
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fractured Sanity
• 1 Freed from the Real
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Halimar Depths
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Into the Story
• 1 Intruder Alarm
• 15 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Memory Erosion
• 1 Mind Grind
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Phenax, God of Deception
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychic Corrosion
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Riddlekeeper
• 1 Riverchurn Monument
• 1 Ruin Crab
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Silent Arbiter
• 1 Singularity Rupture
• 1 Sire of Stagnation
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Teferi's Tutelage
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The Mindskinner
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 The Water Crystal
• 1 Thirst for Discovery
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Traumatize
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Tui and La, Moon and Ocean
• 1 Undead Alchemist
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Visions of Beyond
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windfall