Charix, the Raging Isle

Legendary Creature — Leviathan Crab

Spells your opponents cast that target this cost {2} more to cast.

{3}: This gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (32)

wozislightning on Phenax Hates You

2 weeks ago

Phenax is my favorite commander! Glad to see others still brewing. It looks like you're going for a budget build, so I will try to keep my suggestions money-friendly.

Duskmantle Guildmage OR Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank OR The Master of Lake-town = murder, as long as they lose a life or a part is put in their graveyard. Mindcrank is a bit expensive at the moment, but the others aren't bad.

Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception = mill everyone as long as you can keep hitting creatures.

Undead Alchemist + Intruder Alarm + Phenax, God of Deception = mill everyone as long as you hit creatures.

King Macar, the Gold-Cursed + Phenax, God of Deception + Intruder Alarm = exile your opponents creatures and ramp yourself whenever they enter the battlefield.

Other great value cards: Charix, the Raging Isle, Consuming Aberration, Disciple of Deceit, Drift of Phantasms, Fallowsage, Cruel Somnophage, Didn't Say Please, Into the Story, Deepmuck Desperado & Singularity Rupture. The possibilities are endless.

Feel free to check out my list as well if you would like to see more.

Best of luck, and happy brewing!

Fox_Thot on Texaco's Gas Station

4 months ago

DubMC I appreciate the input, and it is a good recommendation. However, it doesn't quite fit the bill for what I'm trying to do with this deck. It really aims to tickle and get value off of multiple damage triggers instead of going for one big smack with something like Charix, the Raging Isle. Maybe I'll playtest it and see if I'm totally wrong though. Thanks for stopping by!

DubMC on Texaco's Gas Station

4 months ago

Charix, the Raging Isle seems like it would fit great. Pump him up on declare blockers step and BAM!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Shell Hath No Fury Like A Turtle With Crabs

1 year ago

Looks awesome! I have a 60 card turtle tribal, and I actually considered building Pride in a similar way.

I do have some cards you might want to consider:

Rapid Hybridization, Pongify: Both are cheap kill spells, and the tokens left behind will badically never be a problem for you.

Dive Down: Quite the great protection spell, and once you have Bedrock Tortoise or Assault Formation online, it will even be a combat trick.

Charix, the Raging Isle: Duuh ;D

Profaner of the Dead: One-sided wipe that's taylor-made for the deck.

Bident of Thassa: The card draw is great, but the activated ability is powerful for you, as it's basically redundancy for Angler Turtle.

9-lives on Azorius Testudo Spearhead

2 years ago

Thanks, Predator_90! I would love to run that card with Charix, the Raging Isle, but this is an Azorius deck. Would be great if I could, but that would require me running a better manabase. If I did, I would include Assault Formation and Tower Defense.

NV_1980 on Milling opponents get wins (I Hope)

2 years ago

Hi fellow Phenax player! I would recommend adding some more high-toughness creatures to use as milling engines when combined with Phenax. Charix, the Raging Isle is very good in this regard. Also, because you mill, lots of creatures will end up in graveyards. This in turn could fuel the toughness of creatures like Mortivore, Nighthowler and Wight of Precinct Six (which allows for even more milling). A card that's also worth considering would be Bloodchief Ascension, which can go infinite with Mindcrank.

Conair2013 on Arcades

2 years ago

Charix, the Raging Isle does not work in arcades as you would think, he has a big booty but no defender so Arcades, the Strategist does not do anything to change Charix. Assault Formation and High Alert do make him hit for 17 but they are 2 cards in your deck so not very viable.

NV_1980 on Tappy Mill 2.1 (Phenax EDH)

2 years ago

Hi, looks good! Lots of similarities between our Phenax decks. Here are some cards I would recommend:

1. Dauthi Voidwalker: has two major benefits; exiles stuff instead of just putting it in graveyards AND it allows you to steal something valuable (which can be devastatingly effective at times, especially early game).
2. Fleet Swallower: milling someone's library on attack is nothing to sneeze at. What's especially awesome is that Swallower can target another player than the one its attacking. So you attack a player with a weak creature defense (which allows it to survive the attack) while you mill a player with a more significant board-presence.
3. Jace, Memory Adept: an excellent mill-walker and supplies you with more draw if needed.
4. Pemmin's Aura/Freed from the Real: imagine enchanting something like Charix, the Raging Isle or Tree of Perdition with these babies and then milling someone with them as many times as you have islands (or other sources of blue mana ... brutal!
5. Bloodchief Ascension: with three counters on it, this goes infinite when combined with Mindcrank.
6. Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree: this allows you to ramp by milling; picture your opponents' faces while doing that.

Have fun with the deck!