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Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is commanded by Captain N'ghathrod and focuses on a Horror typal strategy centered on combat-triggered mill and graveyard theft. The game plan opens with low-mana mana rocks and evasive Horror creatures to establish early board presence. Once Captain N'ghathrod enters the battlefield on turn 4 or 5, all Horrors gain menace, allowing them to bypass blockers, deal combat damage, and mill opposing libraries. At each end step, the commander reanimates an opposing artifact or creature milled that turn, turning opponents' resources against them. As the game develops into turn 6, massive threats such as Consuming Aberration, Guiltfeeder, and Nemesis of Reason accelerate the mill clock while Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance clear opposing boards. Standalone engines like Bolas's Citadel and Rise of the Dark Realms provide strong late-game closing power, allowing the deck to win through overwhelming combat damage, direct life loss, or library depletion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Araumi of the Dead Tide
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crypt Lurker
  • 1 Dark Hatchling
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Horror
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Faceless Devourer
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Infinite Reflection
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirror Mockery
  • 1 Mutated Cultist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Polymorphous Rush
  • 1 Psionic Ritual
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seal of Removal
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trickster's Talisman
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Zndrsplt's Judgment