Captain Horror v13 by Beyondthebeat

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Mill and Reanimator strategy led by Captain N'ghathrod. It accelerates early with two-mana artifacts to cast continuous mill pieces like Mesmeric Orb, Court of Cunning, and Ruin Crab. Once Captain N'ghathrod hits the board on Turn 4, all Horrors gain menace and mill opponents upon dealing combat damage. At each end step, Captain N'ghathrod reanimates an artifact or creature card milled from an opponent's library that turn, turning opposing decks into fuel for your board. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition around Turn 5 using massive threats like Consuming Aberration, direct damage from Syr Konrad, the Grim, and table-wide mill from kicked Maddening Cacophony. A compact interaction package featuring Drown in the Loch, Toxic Deluge, and efficient countermagic protects the board while disrupting opposing strategies, closing out the table by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke