Zellix The Undying Miller

Commander / EDH Horror Mill Sacrifice UB (Dimir)

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Creature (33)

• 1x Aberrant Researcher  ^Flip
• 1x Ancient Cellarspawn
• 1x Arcbound Fiend
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Captain N'ghathrod
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1x Grell Philosopher
• 1x Hecteyes
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Mind Flayer
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Overlord of the Floodpits
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Silent Hallcreeper
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Starving Revenant
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x The Ancient One
• 1x Uchuulon
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wharf Infiltrator
• 1x Wonder

Artifact (16)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Altar of the Wretched  ^Flip
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Water Crystal
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Land (34)

• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 12x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (5)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Scour

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Singularity Rupture
• 1x Stitch Together

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mystic Remora

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Creature (4)

• 1x Gurgling Anointer
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Sludge Monster

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation

Artifact (1)

• 1x Maskwood Nexus

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Theme of the deck is horror with the aim to mill everyone to generate tokens to use as an attacking force or to sacrifice for other effects. Synergy between Zellix, Sanity Flayer + Haunted One would allow me to either tap to boost the 1/1 horrors to 3/1 if I want to be aggressive or to wait until the end step of the player right before my next turn so I can tap Zellix, Sanity Flayer to give undying to all my non-token Horrors at any point during an opponent's turn if they try to take them out which most of the creatures in this deck are horrors. It also allows me to be aggressive with certain creatures so even if they die they come back through Undying triggering their entering the battlefield effect.
Example:
-tap Zellix, Sanity Flayer
-Boost Hecteyes to 3/1 and attack, he dies
-Hecteyes comes back as a 2/2 and triggers opponents to discard a card again (similar idea with Fume Spitter and Spellskite)

Some ideas of how some strategies for the deck
-Gaining/losing life when creatures enters/leave the battlefield
-Putting cards in your graveyard and bringing them back through things like Agadeem's Awakening  
-Heavy milling to proc Zellix, Sanity Flayer and Undead Alchemist
-Sacrifice tokens or creatures with effects to Altar of Dementia, Altar of the Brood, Phyrexian Altar, Skullclamp

A stronger combo example is Zellix, Sanity Flayer + Altar of the Brood + The Water Crystal
-Tap Zellix, Sanity Flayer to mill 7 cards (3 + 4 from Water crystal), if 1 card is a creature then create a 1/1 token
-Token enters the field, triggers Altar of the Brood to make all opponents mill 5 cards each (1 + 4 from water crystal)
-if any of the opponents mill a creature repeat the process

Still open to some ideas to improve or cards I could switch, things like Phyrexian Obliterator with Undying seems very powerful but not sure if it would be reliable enough

Date added	1 month
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Horror, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B