PHENIX PERFECT by ZEDDSDECKS

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Dimir mill deck built around Phenax, God of Deception, turning every creature into a repeatable mill engine based on its toughness. The primary game plan is to deploy high-toughness walls, crabs, and other creatures, then use Phenax's tap ability to mill opponents out. The deck also packs several infinite mill combos: Eater of the Dead + Phenax, Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank, and Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank. These combos can be assembled quickly via transmute tutors and Demonic Tutor. The commander's indestructibility makes it highly resilient, and multiple combo lines ensure the deck can win even without Phenax on the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Glacial Wall
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grisly Spectacle
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Psychic Spiral
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer