Milly maxing by Gaullo

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

Phenax, God of Deception turns the deck's creatures into repeatable mill outlets, with Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubling each mill event. The strongest ordinary board is a high-toughness creature such as Charix, the Raging Isle supported by Phenax, God of Deception, producing large library reductions rather than immediate combat damage. Fast mana, tutors, card draw, and free countermagic let the deck reach this engine earlier than a casual mill deck. Painter's Servant and Grindstone add a compact one-player library kill, but the combo needs an untap plan or separate activations to defeat the remaining opponents. The deck therefore plays more like a control deck that builds toward a mill engine than a reliable cEDH combo deck. Its main weaknesses are expensive assembly, dependence on several permanents, limited creature protection, and the lack of a dependable same-turn table finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Aphetto Alchemist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chains of Mephistopheles
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Helm of Obedience
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tolaria
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Windfall