Phenax Deck by gold295857

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir Mill and Combo-Control list helmed by Phenax, God of Deception. The primary objective is assembling compact, lethal mill and life-drain engines, predominantly the two-card infinite combo of Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank, or the commander synergy with Eater of the Dead to instantly deplete opposing libraries. The deck supports this game plan with a comprehensive tutor suite (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal), extensive graveyard reanimation tools (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Yawgmoth's Will), and robust card-draw engines like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and The One Ring. Defensively, the list features an elite suite of free and low-cost interaction, including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Mana Drain, Deadly Rollick, and Cyclonic Rift, alongside disruptive stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Dauthi Voidwalker. This structure allows the deck to control the board and eliminate all opponents in a single decisive turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer