Phenax - by Dviance

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control and mill engine commanded by Phenax, God of Deception. The primary game plan converts oversized toughness stats into massive mill bursts. Early turns focus on establishing high-toughness blockers like Caelorna, Coral Tyrant, Wall of Frost, and Charix, the Raging Isle, while defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Silent Arbiter halt opposing combat. Once Phenax enters the battlefield, these creatures tap at instant speed on opponent end steps to strip libraries of 15 to 30+ cards per cycle. Mill doublers such as Bruvac the Grandiloquent and The Water Crystal accelerate this process toward a lethal Turn 7 finish. The deck also includes compact win conditions like Duskmantle Guildmage with Mindcrank and Eater of the Dead, backed by countermagic and targeted graveyard hate to prevent opponents from benefiting from their filled graveyards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
  • 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Calculations
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Pilfered Plans
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Watery Grave