New Untitled Deck by radagastly

Format: Commander

Commander: Zellix, Sanity Flayer and Folk Hero

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck combines Zellix, Sanity Flayer with the Folk Hero Background to generate steady card advantage and a swarm of 1/1 Horror creature tokens whenever cards are milled. Operating in Azorius, the deck pairs incremental mill engines like Ruin Crab, Court of Cunning, and Altar of the Brood with explosive finishers like Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Maddening Cacophony, and The Mindskinner. Early turns prioritize establishing mana acceleration and deploying both commanders. Once the commanders are active, every mill trigger has the potential to spawn tokens, which in turn draw cards and fuel secondary sacrifice or attack engines. Defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison help shield life totals while opposing libraries are depleted. The deck leans heavily on permanent-based synergies to outvalue opponents and secure victory either by milling libraries completely or overrunning the board with buffed Horror tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avian Changeling
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Celebrate the Mountain-king
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Ego Erasure
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Extricator of Sin // Extricator of Flesh
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Far Traveler
  • 1 Flock Impostor
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Guiding Hydra
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inspiring Leader
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Personify
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shapesharer
  • 1 Shields of Velis Vel
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wings of Velis Vel
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer