Phenax, God of Deception

Commander / EDH Mill UB (Dimir)

MKTuba

Creature (26)

• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Dragon's Eye Savants
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Murmuring Phantasm
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Sidisi's Faithful
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Tide Drifter
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wall of Deceit
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts
• 1x Wall of Mist
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Instant (7)

• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Negate
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Thought Collapse

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Jester's Cap
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of the Suns
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Breaking Wave
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Whispering Madness

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Training Grounds

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 15x Island
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Warped Landscape

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

Creature (1)

• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent

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The meat and potatoes of this is from Commanders Quarters youtube channel. I have subbed out some cards for some better ones, and to just fit my playstyle a little better.

Phenax's ability is the main focus in this deck. Giving all your creatures the ability to mill for their toughness (a 3/5 would mill five cards) is a killer ability, and is why we are running a lot of walls. We are also running the crab, Charix, the Raging Isle. This is a 0/17 that also makes our opponents removal spells cost 2 more mana. Equipping Charix with something like Lightning Greaves makes it harder for him to be a target.

Another important card in this deck is Isochron Scepter. Being able to have theoretically infinite removal (or any other instant you chose to run) is super important. I would personally choose to pair it with Dramatic Reversal, because of the utility of our Commanders ability. Tapping all of your creatures to mill out your opponents, and then untapping with Dramatic Reversal is a great win con in this deck.

Basically, this deck focuses on having high toughness creatures that utilize Phenax's ability to mill other players out.

On my maybeboard is Bruvac the Grandiloquent. I would like to include him but am not willing to pay $33 for him yet. He is a pillar of any mill deck as he quite literally doubles the effectiveness of your mill. Bruvac + Traumatize = an instant mill out. Bruvac = Charix means you are milling 34 cards each turn, resulting in a 3 turn mill out. Even less if you have a way to untap charix.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	City's Blessing, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Monarch Emblem