Captain N'ghathrod by Dabearsown

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Captain N'ghathrod runs a Horror-tribal mill strategy that aims to empty opposing libraries. The primary plan is to attack with menace Horrors, especially the captain, while throwing out big mill spells; Fraying Sanity then turns a single Traumatize or kicked Maddening Cacophony into a lethal end-step trigger. Secondary paths involve Ashiok planeswalkers, Dredge the Mire, and Visions of Dread stealing opposing threats, plus The Mindskinner converting damage into extra mills. There is no hidden commander; the Ashioks are support pieces that reinforce the mill-and-theft plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dreadwurm
  • 1 Dredge the Mire
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grasping Tentacles
  • 1 Grim Bounty
  • 1 Gulping Scraptrap
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Necrogen Communion
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Pilfered Plans
  • 1 Portal Mage
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Qutrub Forayer
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sewer Nemesis
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Surgical Skullbomb
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Visions of Dread