Lord Xander, the Miller by Rohell

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Xander, the Collector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Grixis Mill and Reanimation deck commanded by Lord Xander, the Collector. The game plan centers on rapidly filling opposing graveyards through persistent mill engines like Mesmeric Orb and Court of Cunning, growing threats like Consuming Aberration and The Mindskinner, and draining life with Syr Konrad, the Grim and Bloodchief Ascension. During the early game, the deck develops its mana base using signets and low-cost utility creatures. In the midgame, it leverages graveyard recursion and value engines like Kess, Dissident Mage to maintain card flow while disrupting key opposing plays with efficient spot removal and countermagic. By Turn 7, the deck reaches its critical onset by deploying Lord Xander, the Collector or casting Breach the Multiverse to establish a commanding board state. It closes out games across Turns 8 through 10 via combat damage from enormous graveyard-scaled creatures, heavy mass mill, or an infinite drain loop with Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Erasure
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Maestros Charm
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge