All Milly willy by user6505977

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir Horror tribal and mill-theft strategy commanded by Captain N'ghathrod. The deck aims to establish cheap, evasive Horrors in the early game, such as Dauthi Horror and Silent Hallcreeper, alongside mill engines like Ruin Crab. On Turn 5, deploying Captain N'ghathrod grants menace to the tribe and mills opponents upon combat contact, generating card advantage by stealing the best milled creature or artifact during each end step. In the mid-to-late game, the deck scales aggressively through graveyard-fueled powerhouses like Consuming Aberration, Guiltfeeder, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. A high land count (41 lands) ensures steady mana drops, while interaction like Drown in the Loch and Toxic Deluge provides defensive utility. While the deck possesses an incidental infinite combo between Duskmantle Guildmage and The Master of Lake-town, it primarily finishes games through evasive combat and overwhelming stolen board states.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Charmed Sleep
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Horror
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grasping Tentacles
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Mental Modulation
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nihilith
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Plague Stinger
  • 1 Power Word Kill
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Serum Snare
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Zombify