Phenax, God of Deception by user5181481

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir mill deck built around Phenax, God of Deception, who turns every creature into a tap-mill engine. The primary plan is to deploy high-toughness creatures (Charix, the Raging Isle, Tree of Perdition, Wall of Frost, etc.), then attach untap auras like Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura to repeatedly tap the same creature for massive mill. Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles all mill, Fraying Sanity and Sphinx's Tutelage amplify the effect, and Altar of Dementia provides a sacrifice-based mill outlet. Secondary win conditions include direct damage from Syr Konrad, the Grim and Bloodchief Ascension, or the combat-prevention mill of The Mindskinner. The deck is a value-oriented mill strategy that pressures opponents' libraries while maintaining a solid defensive board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Fatestitcher
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magewright's Stone
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manic Scribe
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Watery Grave