Dimir EDH - Phenax Mill

Commander / EDH* Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (28)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Instant (3)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Hero's Downfall

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 9x Island
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Traumatize

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

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Creature (12)

• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Deceiver of Form
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Instant (4)

• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Silumgar's Command

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mindcrank

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Phenax Mill

The Engine - Big Butts

Phenax is an interesting mill deck to build, because the primary mill effect deals with creature toughness. This lends to running a fatty-heavy build in Dimir, which is a weird proposition to say the least. While Dimir fatties can be quite powerful in their own right, Dimir is not a color combination which easily breaks through the 1-big-spell-per-turn barrier, meaning that it can easily be outpaced by more competitive decks.

Jamming a bunch of ramp into the deck does help you get to your fatties while everyone else is still setting up their synergies and combos, and the pair of Paradox Engine and Intruder Alarm create mill storm scenarios where your turns are signficantly more impactful.

Tech

Mind Over Matter + Temple Bell / Jace's Archivist can force everyone to infinitely draw their decks (while you're able to pitch away Eldrazi Titans to shuffle yours back up).

Paradox Engine + Temple Bell + Mana Rocks can extend the life of your turn significantly while continually milling your opponents and untapping your creatures.

Eater of the Dead is basically a one-card combo (with Phenax in play). As long as a creature ends up in your opponents graveyard, Eater can exile it to untap itself and mill again.

Undead Alchemist + Thousand-Year Elixir / Lightning Greaves allows you to mill players and, if you mill a creature, create a hasty zombie to mill some more. Throw in an Intruder Alarm and you're untapping your entire board every-time a creature gets milled.

Relic of Progenitus , Leyline of the Void , Scavenger Grounds , and Disallow combat the threat of an opponent milling an Eldrazi Titan themselves. Oblivion Sower synergizes with these exiling cards as well as Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger .

How it Plays

The deck comes out of the gate fairly quickly, ramping and setting up board while not committing much in the way of creatures to the board early. This allows you to board-wipe once you're comfortable with your resources and follow up with big fat creatures. This deck favors more explosive milling over grindier creature-heavy builds that flood the board with mediocre big-toughness creatures (only to be blown out by board-wipes).

Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.63
Tokens	Copy Clone, Gold, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Works in Progress