Mill by TheMartyrMaker

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Phenax, God of Deception leads a mill deck that converts creature toughness into library pressure. The main plan is to reach seven blue/black devotion so Phenax becomes a creature, then tap big-toughness permanents (Sire of Stagnation, Wrexial, Tree of Perdition, growing Consuming Aberration) to mill. Backup lines include Bruvac plus kicked Maddening Cacophony for a full-library wipe, the Duskmantle Guildmage/Mindcrank drain loop, and Doomsday Excruciator followed by any large mill. Draw-mill enchantments, landfall crabs, and attack triggers fill graveyards and grow the deck's X/X horrors. It aims to empty all three libraries by turns 8-9; opponents then lose from decking on their draw steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Increasing Confusion
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Mortivore
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patient Rebuilding
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer