Zellix by Hrothrik

Format: Commander

Commander: Zellix, Sanity Flayer and Scion of Halaster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Dimir deck adapts the competitive Lantern Control archetype to multiplayer Commander by pairing Zellix, Sanity Flayer with Scion of Halaster. The strategy centers on establishing total information dominance through Lantern of Insight, Field of Dreams, and Telepathy, revealing the top cards of all libraries and opposing hands. By utilizing repeatable mill tools like Codex Shredder, Ghoulcaller's Bell, Thoughtpicker Witch, and Zellix, the deck actively controls opponents' draw steps, binning critical threats and answers while leaving them with dead cards. Ensnaring Bridge completely shuts down creature combat, taking advantage of the deck's low mana curve to empty the hand. Zellix, Sanity Flayer generates an army of 1/1 Horror tokens whenever creature cards are milled, fueling sacrifice outlets like Skullclamp and Warren Soultrader. The deck closes games through relentless attrition with Syr Konrad, the Grim, mass mill from Mesmeric Orb, or reanimating devastating payoffs like Breach the Multiverse and Valgavoth, Terror Eater.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Artificer's Intuition
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consult the Star Charts
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Ensnaring Bridge
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Field of Dreams
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scion of Halaster
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Scrib Nibblers
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Selhoff Occultist
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Palace
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thoughtpicker Witch
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undercity Informer
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vantress Gargoyle
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vengeful Pharaoh
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer