Phenax Mill

Commander / EDH* Mill UB (Dimir)

MrSatirical

Creature (23)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Whispering Madness

Land (30)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 8x Island
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Saprazzan Cove
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (10)

• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Archive Trap
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

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This deck is not really meant to be a combo deck, though there are a couple in here. I've tried to have a good selection of creatures which all on their own can do well if Phenax is subdued. It's primarily meant to be a "grindy" mill deck, I focus on getting out my heavy hitters with tutor or graveyard fetch.

The following are the only heavy combos:

Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception

Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank

Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank

though there is a lot of synergy between the cards like:

Tree of Perdition + Guiltfeeder

Sphinx's Tutelage + Sire of Stagnation

Fraying Sanity + Traumatize

Fraying Sanity + Fleet Swallower

and Paradox Engine works well with all my low cost spells.

Traumatize, and Mind Grind are the only straight up mill spells in the deck. I decided on this rather than lots of small weak mill spells. This way I filled up instant and sorcery spell slots with a lot of card draw, removal, counters, and tutor. I think it does more for the tempo.

There are a lot of options for creatures and utility (like graveyard control, mill spells, tutor, NBL's etc). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	95
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Gold, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B