Do You Believe in Ghosts

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a focused Dimir mill-and-reanimator deck helmed by Captain N'ghathrod. The primary game plan is to mill opponents' libraries using mass-mill spells, creature-based mill engines (Phenax, God of Deception, Bruvac the Grandiloquent), and Horror combat triggers, then capitalize on the filled graveyards with the commander's end-step reanimation. The deck leans heavily into infinite and near-infinite mill combos (Mindcrank + Duskmantle Guildmage, Bruvac the Grandiloquent + kicked Maddening Cacophony) as its fastest closed wins. Secondary value comes from reanimating opponents' best creatures and from token generation via Zellix, Sanity Flayer. A dense suite of premium tutors ensures the table-thinning mill combos are reachable every game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperious Mindbreaker
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer