MILL/KILL by Frank5530

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Dimir deck leverages Phenax, God of Deception to convert high-toughness defenders into massive milling power. The early game focuses on deploying efficient walls like Wall of Frost, Wall of Junk, and Charix, the Raging Isle to establish an impenetrable defensive perimeter against aggressive combat strategies. Once Phenax enters on turn 4, these defenders immediately tap to deplete opposing libraries during end steps. On turn 5, the deck escalates into lethal win attempts through Eater of the Dead, which repeatedly untaps by exiling milled creatures to mill out the entire table in a single loop. Complementing the primary mill plan are several independent two-card combo packages, including Duskmantle Guildmage with Mindcrank, Painter's Servant with Grindstone, and Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation. A robust control suite of counterspells, draw denial, and search hate from Ashiok, Dream Render and Narset, Parter of Veils protects the game plan while suffocating opponent resources.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Deceit
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Hullbreacher
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six