Decks Are Like Flour, Easily Milled

Commander / EDH Control Mill UB (Dimir)

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Land (37)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 10x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shelldock Isle
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Exiling Important Pieces (4)

• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Life Loss (2)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Guiltfeeder

Removal (2)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed

Cloning Effects (1)

• 1x Mirage Mirror

Butt-Mill (13)

• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Disowned Ancestor
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Defender (8)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fendeep Summoner
• 1x Glacial Wall
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Junk

Control (4)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Spell Crumple

Draw (3)

• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sire of Stagnation

Minion Generator (2)

• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Undead Alchemist

Tutor (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Commander (1)

Mill (10)

• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Untap (8)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Tideforce Elemental

Ramp (2)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Sol Ring

Recursion (1)

• 1x Colfenor's Urn

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Misc (40)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Aura of Dominion
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Crab Umbra
• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Disciple of the Ring
• 1x Drift of the Dead
• 2x Faces of the Past
• 1x Galvanic Alchemist
• 1x Griffin Canyon
• 1x Guardians of Meletis
• 1x Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage
• 1x Jandor's Saddlebags
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Merrow Reejerey
• 1x Moaning Wall
• 1x Murmuring Phantasm
• 1x Pain Seer
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Sands of Time
• 1x Second Wind
• 1x Servant of Tymaret
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Soldevi Golem
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Stitcher's Graft
• 1x Thassa's Ire
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Triton Tactics
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Voltaic Construct
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts

Life Loss (2)

• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Pontiff of Blight

Mill (17)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Trepanation Blade
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Exiling Important Pieces (8)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Extract
• 1x Jester's Cap
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Ravenous Trap
• 1x Withered Wretch
• 1x Yixlid Jailer

Untap (5)

• 1x Archive Trap
• 1x Doorkeeper
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Ramp (4)

• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Stax(?) (4)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Desolation
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Temporal Distortion

Opponent Spells (2)

• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Butt-Mill (12)

• 1x Dragon's Eye Savants
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem *oversized*
• 1x Living Wall
• 1x Ludevic's Test Subject  ^Flip
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Shifting Wall
• 1x Snow Fortress
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Thunder Wall
• 1x Wall of Deceit
• 1x Wall of Tombstones

Control (9)

• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Dispersal Shield
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Induce Paranoia
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Collapse

Draw (5)

• 1x Ponder
• 1x Research the Deep
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Cloning Effects (4)

• 1x Clone
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Rite of Replication

Recursion (4)

• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Removal (3)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Life's Finale

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Beta-Creation of a Phenax butt-mill deck.

This deck has officially been built in person, and as such I'm making this decklist public. Let me know any suggestions anyone sees.

Maybe board are things that work, but didn't (haven't yet) made the cut.

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Tunnel Vision with Hinder or Spell Crumple for an entire library mill.

Horseshoe Crab + Morphling - Check amount of cards that can modify positively - Ring of Evos Isle

Karn, Silver Golem - Check # of artifacts for ability to mill

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Gold, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Zombie 2/2 B