Phenax, 'Mill to Death'

Commander / EDH Budget Mill UB (Dimir)

Gezzerka

Creature (26)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Enchantment (4)

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

Artifact (16)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Traumatize

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 14x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (6)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Snuff Out

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An EDH deck i have been working on for a while, has a fairly high success rate but always looking for suggestions!

Works by tutoring one of the many instant win cons or holding off until they appear.

Combos:

Eater of the Dead + Phenax: Tap eater of the dead to mill 4 > Remove a creature from any graveyard to untap Eater > repeat.

Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank: Tap 1UB to activate Duskmantle's first ability > find a way to mill your opponent (possibly his second ability?) > Mindcrank and duskmantle bounce off eachother completely draining opponents health.

Fraying Sanity + Traumatise: Traumatise an opponent cursed with Fraying sanity > at end of turn they will drop the other half of their deck in the graveyard. (sometimes leaves them with one card)

If opponents graveyards are getting high. Consuming Aberration, Wight of Precinct Six, Sewer Nemesis and Guiltfeeder are all decent win cons.

Open to suggestions on how to make it more consistent!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Mill ideas