Phenax, God of Mill

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

MagicMike777

Land (38)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 7x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Traumatize

Creature (25)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Consuming Aberration *f-pre*
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Death's Approach
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crook of Condemnation
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Instant (4)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Psychic Strike

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Creature (32)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Undead Alchemist

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (9)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Countermand
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Thought Collapse
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Bond of Insight
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Psychic Drain
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Telemin Performance
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Land (6)

• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Winding Canyons

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Psychic Corrosion

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I love mill. I know its a very bad strategy, every mill player has to admit that sooner or later, but I still love it. What's more exciting than milling a 60 card deck? Trying to mill 300 cards! That is the ideal way to win but I am playing the God of Deceit and that is what I'm doing. I'm actually stocking the graveyards to steal my opponents spells. Why let a good thing go to waste? Why not use them to my own gain. Another thing I do that looks out of character is that I don't play high toughness creatures. I play creatures that do something when they become inspired (untapped). I play creatures that use the number of cards in the yards to get bigger. I play creatures that can steal stuff from the yards. Not many walls in this deck.

So far my highest Mind Grind is for 26. That was sweet.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Gold, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B