Mind Flayarrrs - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate by user1467861

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck executes a synergistic Dimir Horror tribal strategy led by Captain N'ghathrod. The primary game plan develops low-curve Horrors and mana rocks during turns 1 through 3, resolving the commander on turn 4 or 5. Once the commander is active, all Horrors gain menace and mill opponents whenever they connect in combat. During each end step, the commander reanimates an artifact or creature milled that turn, turning opposing graveyards into an asymmetric resource pool. The deck closes games around turn 9 by escalating combat damage with massive scaling Horrors like Consuming Aberration and Uchuulon, direct graveyard-based life loss from Guiltfeeder, and stolen opposing bombs. It features resilient recursion and solid board wipes, though its reliance on combat damage and lack of dedicated tutors keep its execution grounded in fair, interactive gameplay.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Hatchling
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Horror
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dross Harvester
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 From the Catacombs
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nihilith
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Plague Spitter
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer