Windmill by user3808516

Format: Commander

Creator: user3808516

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Dimir mill build commanded by Phenax, God of Deception. Its strategy revolves around deploying cost-effective, high-toughness creatures like Caelorna, Coral Tyrant, Glacial Wall, and Charix, the Raging Isle early, using them as reliable blockers before converting their toughness into massive milling once Phenax enters on turn 5. Defensive pillowfort pieces such as Propaganda, Crawlspace, and Silent Arbiter discourage opponents from attacking, funneling combat away while the deck grinds down libraries. High-impact spells such as Maddening Cacophony, Bruvac the Grandiloquent, and Rise of the Dark Realms provide game-ending surges. While Phenax provides great resilience due to indestructible, the deck is naturally vulnerable to Eldrazi graveyard-shuffle triggers, graveyard-centric value decks, and mass exile sweepers. Operating without tutors or fast mana, the deck trades blistering speed for high defensive stability and methodical table-wide mill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Behold the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Doorkeeper
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Wall
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mnemonic Wall
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stinging Barrier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Wall of Mist
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Wall of Tears
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six