Captain N'ghathrod by Anubi

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Horror tribal and mill strategy led by Captain N'ghathrod. It uses early acceleration and low-cost Horrors to establish an evasive board presence before casting the commander on Turn 4. Once assembled, Horrors attack with menace, mill opponents, and reanimate the best opposing creatures and artifacts every end step. The deck scales into massive threats like Consuming Aberration and Guiltfeeder, while locking boards with Sludge Monster. Alongside combat pressure, the list packs potent compact win conditions: Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles mill spells like Maddening Cacophony to empty libraries in one shot, Bloodchief Ascension loops with Mindcrank to drain life totals, and Painter's Servant pairs with Grindstone for single-target mill eliminations. Supported by premium black tutors and flexible disruption like Drown in the Loch, the deck transitions seamlessly between combat attrition, theft, and combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathgrip
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extraplanar Lens
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grell Philosopher
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad