Horror Show by mtelkhunter

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Dimir deck executes a synergistic Horror typal and mill-theft strategy led by Captain N'ghathrod. The deck establishes early board presence with low-cost Horrors and continuous mill artifacts like Mesmeric Orb before casting the commander on Turn 5. Menace allows Horrors to connect consistently, milling opponents and enabling Captain N'ghathrod to steal their strongest creatures and artifacts each end step. The deck scales into the late game using exponential mill doublers like Bruvac the Grandiloquent, mass reanimation with Breach the Multiverse, and lethal threats like Consuming Aberration and Guiltfeeder. An alternate two-card combo between Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank provides a deterministic win. While vulnerable to early board wipes and graveyard exile, the list maintains high functional redundancy and resilient mid-game recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clammy Prowler
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Calculations
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nihilith
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer