Phenax, God of Deception

Commander / EDH* Control Mill

BambiM

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Contradict
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Divination
• 1x Inspiration
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Palace Familiar
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reckless Scholar

Control (22)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Clutch of Currents
• 1x Contradict
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Feast of Dreams
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nullify
• 1x Ojutai's Breath
• 1x Pin to the Earth
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Singing Bell Strike
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Tightening Coils
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Whisk Away
• 1x Will of the Naga

Ditch (1)

• 1x Doom Blade

Ditch? (14)

• 1x Aerie Worshippers
• 1x Alesha's Vanguard
• 1x Ambuscade Shaman
• 1x Ancient Carp
• 1x Clutch of Currents
• 1x Feast of Dreams
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Hand of Silumgar
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nullify
• 1x Palace Familiar
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal

High Toughness Creatures (24)

• 1x Aerie Worshippers
• 1x Alesha's Vanguard
• 1x Ancient Carp
• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Balustrade Spy
• 1x Benthic Infiltrator
• 1x Catacomb Slug
• 1x Giant Scorpion
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Guardians of Meletis
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Kraken Hatchling
• 1x Murmuring Phantasm
• 1x Omenspeaker
• 1x Perilous Shadow
• 1x Rotting Mastodon
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Sibsig Muckdraggers
• 1x Sidisi's Faithful
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Thassa's Devourer
• 1x Ukud Cobra
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wavecrash Triton

Land (40)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 20x Island
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Mill (5)

• 1x Balustrade Spy
• 1x Benthic Infiltrator
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Thassa's Devourer

Other (4)

• 1x Ambuscade Shaman
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Hand of Silumgar
• 1x Reckless Scholar

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Leyline of the Void

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Maybeboard

Other (32)

• 1x Archive Trap
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Illusory Gains
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Jace's Mindseeker
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Raven Guild Master
• 1x Sands of Delirium
• 1x Scalpelexis
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Szadek, Lord of Secrets
• 1x Tome Scour
• 1x Traumatize

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Favorite, first and best EDH deck I own. Currently working on making it competitive. Will take some time since this deck was created with whatever I happened to have lying around, optimizing it will cost me some :(.

1. I need better, less specific counters and removal spells
2. I need more creatures or spells that also mill the opponent so the deck is not completely dependent on Phenax
3. I need to ditch some not so great creatures

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 6 - 1 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 44 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	Enchantment Bird 2/2 U