Phenax, God of Deception (EDH Mill)

Commander / EDH Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (21)

• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Riddlekeeper
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sphinx Mindbreaker
• 1x Terisian Mindbreaker
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Tree of Perdition

Instant (10)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contaminated Aquifer
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 10x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cut Your Losses
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Pilfered Plans
• 1x Tasha's Hideous Laughter
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

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Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Seer's Lantern
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Dissector
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Land (1)

• 1x Glacial ChasmGC

Instant (6)

• 1x Archive Trap
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Pact of Negation

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Traumatize

Creature (5)

• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Szadek, Lord of Secrets
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Wall of Frost

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

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Phenax Mill + Combo wins

Base strategy is to mill your opponent out. Getting Phenax, God of Deception out as early as possible and casting your creatures which have been optimized for milling through Phenax's ability, or to combo off with other cards in the deck (refer the combo guide below). Transmute cards help to tutor in addition to your regular tutor cards for combo or answer cards. Ideally a combination of Phenax, God of Deception and Bruvac the Grandiloquent with other mill and or combo cards should get the job done, as you should be able to stumble to one or more of the many combo wins this deck has.

Combos:

• Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation
• Bruvac the Grandiloquent + (Cut Your Losses or Traumatize or Terisian Mindbreaker attack or Fleet Swallower attack).
• Phenax, God of Deception + Eater of the Dead
• (Cut Your Losses or Traumatize or Terisian Mindbreaker attack or Fleet Swallower attack) + Phenax, God of Deception + (Guiltfeeder or Lazav, Dimir Mastermind or Consuming Aberration or Sewer Nemesis)
• Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank
• Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank
• Painter's Servant + Grindstone
• Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation
• Helm of Obedience + Leyline of the Void or Dauthi Voidwalker
• (Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries) + Demonic Consultation.
• (Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries) + (Vessel of Endless Rest or Junktroller or Sleight of Hand) + Tunnel Vision.

Optional Combos with different deck builds:

• (Vessel of Endless Rest or Junktroller or Spell Crumple or Hinder or Jace, the Mind Sculptor) + Tunnel Vision.
• (Traumatize or Cut Your Losses or Terisian Mindbreaker attack or Fleet Swallower attack) + (Consuming Aberration or Sewer Nemesis) + Altar of Dementia

Date added	3 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95