Ghost of the Mill by LordFather

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Captain N'ghathrod leads a Dimir mill deck that uses Horror beatdown to fill opponents' graveyards and then steals the best artifact or creature milled during the turn. The deck also has a fast inner combo shell built around Bruvac the Grandiloquent as a de facto hidden commander: doubling any half-library effect can empty all libraries. Secondary paths are the Mindcrank/Boodchief Ascension drain loop, Duskmantle Guildmage-based mill/drain chains, and mass graveyard recursion with Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms. No double-faced Commander exists here, so the deck is built to use Captain N'ghathrod's menace and reanimation trigger plus its auxiliary Horror beatdown.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Ipnu Rivulet
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Liliana Vess
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Mutated Cultist
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Windfall