Put Through the Mill by eviljingo

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Mill Control strategy commanded by Phenax, God of Deception. The primary game plan establishes an early defensive perimeter using high-toughness blockers such as Rune-Sealed Wall, Riptide Turtle, and Bruvac the Grandiloquent. Once Phenax, God of Deception resolves, these creatures turn their defensive stats into offensive milling power. The deck accelerates into a decisive win state around Turn 6 by deploying massive scaling threats like Consuming Aberration or assembling the two-card infinite mill loop with Eater of the Dead. Additionally, reanimation spells like Animate Dead and Chainer, Dementia Master leverage full opposing graveyards to steal high-impact threats. While the deck boasts high durability thanks to Phenax's indestructible nature, thin low-cost ramp and high-CMC interaction make mana management crucial. By balancing defensive deployment, targeted grave manipulation, and explosive burst mill spells like Maddening Cacophony, the deck rapidly empties opposing libraries to close games through deck-out.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ambassador Laquatus
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Belltower Sphinx
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dire Undercurrents
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drownyard Amalgam
  • 1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Frost Marsh
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grasping Tentacles
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Induce Paranoia
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Isolation at Orthanc
  • 1 Jade-Cast Sentinel
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Junktroller
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Knowledge Exploitation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lo and Li, Royal Advisors
  • 1 Locke Cole
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Master's Councillors
  • 1 Mortivore
  • 1 Necromantic Summons
  • 1 Necromaster Dragon
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Riptide Turtle
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Rune-Sealed Wall
  • 1 Secret of Bloodbending
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Szadek, Lord of Secrets
  • 1 Talent of the Telepath
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Toshiro Umezawa
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Tunnel Vision
  • 1 Uneasy Partings
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival