Captain N by user7044971

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Horror tribal and mill attrition strategy commanded by Captain N'ghathrod. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap Horrors and hand disruption in the opening turns, casting the commander on Turn 5, and leveraging tribal menace to mill opponents during combat. At the end of each turn, Captain N'ghathrod steals the most impactful milled creature or artifact to break parity and build a commanding board presence. In the mid-to-late game, the deck accelerates its clock using explosive mill spells like Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, and Maddening Cacophony, alongside scalable finishers such as Consuming Aberration, Guiltfeeder, and Phenax, God of Deception. While it lacks fast mana acceleration and compact infinite combos, the list compensates with dense redundancy in mill outlets, steady card advantage from theft triggers, and resilient backup attackers that can close games independently of the commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Nocturnus
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anticognition
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aspect of Lamprey
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cry of Contrition
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demogorgon's Clutches
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Charm
  • 1 Discordant Dirge
  • 1 Dismal Failure
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
  • 1 Dying Wail
  • 1 Flesh Reaver
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frightful Delusion
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geralf's Mindcrusher
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grasping Tentacles
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Horrifying Revelation
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 1 Ipnu Rivulet
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Memory Sluice
  • 1 Mesmeric Fiend
  • 1 Mind Drain
  • 1 Mind Sculpt
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Navigator's Ruin
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nihilith
  • 1 Ordeal of Erebos
  • 1 Patient Rebuilding
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Psychic Symbiont
  • 1 Raiders' Wake
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Squirming Mass
  • 1 Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
  • 1 Strands of Undeath
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Yarok's Fenlurker
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer