Mill Nye the Science Guy

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie, Ghost of the Navigator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Horror tribal build helmed by Captain N'ghathrod, aiming to deploy a swarm of Horrors, attack to mill opponents, and then steal key permanents from their graveyards via the commander's end-step trigger. The primary win condition is milling opponents out using Bruvac the Grandiloquent combined with Maddening Cacophony or Fractured Sanity, or through repeated combat damage from The Mindskinner. Secondary paths include stealing game-winning threats with Elder Brain, Mind Flayer, and Intellect Devourer, or grinding out value with Toxrill, the Corrosive and Hullbreaker Horror. The deck relies on its commander for sustained advantage but can function without it once a mill engine is established.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Hatchling
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Horror
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eddie the Judge
  • 1 Eddie, Ghost of the Navigator
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nihilith
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Flood of Mars
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer