the phenax deck.

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Mill Tap/Untap UB (Dimir)

the40thwriter

Landbase (38)

• 1x Boggart Bog  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Gloomlake Verge
• 1x Inundated Archive  ^Flip
• 9x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sea Gate, Reborn  ^Flip
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Watery Grave

Ramp (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Interaction (20)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Remand
• 1x Singularity Rupture
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Draw (9)

• 1x Diresight
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Synergy (6)

• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Commander (1)

Pillowfort (11)

• 1x Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Cruel Somnophage
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Mill (8)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Ruin Crab

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Combos to keep in mind while playing are listed below. Notably missing is the Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank combo, since I just don't like it. It has zero flavor with Phenax and only fits due to the color identity. Also, none of these are reliably infinite; they rely on hitting creatures in milling. Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception : Tap the Eater, hopefully mill a creature, exile to untap, repeat. Note that if you've used graveyard hate previously such as Dauthi Voidwalker or Tormod's Crypt, this is less reliable. Altar of Dementia + Undead Alchemist : Every time you mill a creature, sac the 2/2 zombie you get to the Altar to mill again. Altar of Dementia + Zellix, Sanity Flayer : Same combo, just with smaller volume for less mana. Altar of the Brood + Undead Alchemist , Altar of the Brood + Zellix, Sanity Flayer : The token enters, proccing the Altar. If a creature is milled, you get a token. Repeat. Intruder Alarm + Phenax, God of Deception + Undead Alchemist , Intruder Alarm + Phenax, God of Deception + Zellix, Sanity Flayer : The most absurd combo of all. This can be unintuitive so I'll go through the play by play. Your opponent plays a creature while you have this combo on your board (I'll describe the Zellix version since it's less ridiculous). Intruder Alarm triggers. Respond to the trigger by tapping Zellix. Someone mills 3, hopefully you hit a creature. Do this with all your creatures; each mill trigger has the potential to hit a creature, spawning a token. Each time a token enters, Intruder Alarm triggers again, and you tap out again to mill again. Once you finally miss, you still have the first Intruder Alarm trigger, so your creatures end the combo untapped. Your opponent continues their turn. If you want these combos more consistently, feel free to run tutors. I prefer to run lots of draw (and a couple transmutes) instead but it's just preference.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 months
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank Altar of the Brood + Undead Alchemist Altar of Dementia + Undead Alchemist Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception Intruder Alarm + Phenax, God of Deception + Undead Alchemist Altar of the Brood + Zellix, Sanity Flayer Altar of Dementia + Zellix, Sanity Flayer Intruder Alarm + Phenax, God of Deception + Zellix, Sanity Flayer
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Horror, On an Adventure, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B