Exponential Mill

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

SpaceCanary87

Creature (30)

• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Merfolk Secretkeeper
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Riddlekeeper
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 12x Island
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (8)

• 1x Didn't Say Please
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Thought Collapse
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Traumatize

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Psychic Membrane
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Drowned Secrets
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Increasing Confusion

Instant (3)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Memory Plunder

Artifact (4)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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At first glance, this looks like the average Phenax, God of Deception mill deck. And you would be right. This IS a fairly average EDH mill deck. Its endgame strategy, however, is to swing for lethal using something like a Mortivore or a Consuming Aberration, or else mill opponents out faster using those same swollen creatures. It might not be the most competitive deck ever, but it's still incredibly fun.

Notable inclusions:

Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank infinite: These two cards are simply good for this deck in a vacuum. The fact that they go infinite is icing on the cake.

Bruvac the Grandiloquent: Way too good to forgo in a mill deck. However, I like black too much to put him in the command zone, because black cards are how we weaponize our opponents' graveyards.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death, Junktroller: Niche graveyard hate pieces that are designed to avoid exiling entire graveyards, thereby shrinking or killing our giant beaters. If things get dire I also included Ashiok, Dream Render and Bojuka Bog, which do exile entire graveyards.

Sadistic Sacrament: Your one-stop shop for exiling Eldrazi titans from players' libraries before they shuffle their graveyards back into their libraries. This is highly annoying, so if you know a friend has one in their deck exile it immediately.

It's also worth noting that I'm debating whether to run tutors to grab wincons or hate pieces as the situation calls for.

Suggestions are always welcome.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Zombie 2/2 B