Phenax Mill by user8230982

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 14

Deck overview

This is a mono-engine Dimir mill deck led by Phenax, God of Deception. It uses high-toughness creatures such as Charix, the Raging Isle, Caelorna, Coral Tyrant, and Wall of Frost as repeatable mill sources, with Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubling their output. Smaller effects from Hedron Crab, Ruin Crab, Court of Cunning, and Memory Erosion build graveyards before the larger creatures arrive. Thousand-Year Elixir, Unstoppable Plan, and Freed from the Real can improve activation timing. The deck also contains a real infinite-mana package with Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal, supported by Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, but it lacks a consistently assembled outlet and does not convert that loop into a dependable win. Its main weaknesses are high mana costs, limited tutoring, slow assembly, and heavy reliance on vulnerable singleton permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Corrupted Shapeshifter
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Lost Thoughts
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer