phenax by user1605190

Format: Commander

Commander: Phenax, God of Deception

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir mill strategy commanded by Phenax, God of Deception. It leverages an asymmetric resource engine by deploying high-toughness creatures and defenders—such as Charix, the Raging Isle, Tree of Perdition, Wall of Frost, and The Ancient One—and tapping them at instant speed to rapidly deplete opponents' libraries. The deck smoothly transitions from early board stabilization into explosive mid-game mill bursts powered by Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Consuming Aberration, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Maddening Cacophony. An emergency infinite combo between Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank provides an alternate win condition. While resilient against traditional creature board wipes due to Phenax's indestructible enchantment nature, the deck relies on natural draws due to a lack of nonland tutors, and it must manage opposing graveyard-based strategies and shuffle effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eater of the Dead
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer