VomitoSkinner by Lord-of-pig

Format: Commander

Commander: The Mindskinner

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive mono-blue tempo and mill strategy led by The Mindskinner. Rather than relying solely on incremental mill spells, the deck weaponizes its commander's unblockable 10-power body to convert combat connections into table-wide library destruction. Casting the commander on Turn 3 enables an immediate 10-card mill attack against all three opponents on Turn 4. From there, the deck accelerates the clock using damage doublers like Fireshrieker, mill amplifiers such as Bruvac the Grandiloquent, and non-legendary clone effects including Spark Double and Irenicus's Vile Duplication. A robust suite of cheap counterspells, equipment, and redirection creatures protects the fragile 10/1 commander from removal. Asymmetric graveyard stax pieces like Grafdigger's Cage and Soulless Jailer ensure opponents cannot use their filled graveyards against you. When left unanswered, the deck rapidly depletes opposing libraries within three combat rotations, closing the game with kicked spells like Maddening Cacophony or unblockable lethal mill swings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bonehoard
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 31 Island
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spell Rupture
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer