Phenax EDH

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

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Artifact (19)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Creature (17)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Undead Alchemist

Instant (15)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Swan Song

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 11x Island
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

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In my playgroup, the big toughness creature strategy is not fast enough to win games. So I had to opt for a more aggressive strategy: Combo.

I was starting to run into the problem where I couldn't get to my combo's fast enough or it at least felt that way. So I decided to drop the Fraying Sanity + Traumatize or Fleet Swallower and the Halimar Excavator + Rite of Replication. My reasoning for choosing these combos was that they were (1) mana intensive, (2) harder to set up, and (3) they felt like dead draws when I already had a different combo piece in my hand.

So what did I replace them with? Primarily card draw and a few more control cards. One newer combo was added that will be noted down below in the combo section. More Tutors are still to come.

The combos either completely mill or exile my opponents libraries, or kill them through loss of life by milling with cards like Duskmantle guild mage or Bloodchief Ascension.

This new list still needs to be playtested.

Combos:

Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank. This combo is the scariest. Make everyone at the table hate you for playing it. Once it lands, its game over for anyone that tries to touch it. My favorite is pairing this combo with Geier Reach Sanitarium.

Helm of Obedience + Leyline of the Void. I had this in my opening hand once plus a Sol Ring. The game was over so fast.

Tunnel Vision + Spell Crumple or Hinder or Vessel of Endless Rest. It has reached the point in my playgroup where if I put anything on the bottom of someones library, I become the target. They immediately assume I am going to Tunnel vision them on my next turn.

Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception. Can take out players that run heavy creature decks.

Fate Stitcher + Illusionist's Bracers. Make infinite mana to cast Phenax and another creature to mill out the table. Fate stitcher has gained a lot of hate in my playgroup thanks to this combo.

NEW Undead Alchemist + Altar of Dementia. Like the Eater of the Dead + Phenax, God of Deception combo, Undead Alchemist and Altar of Dementia work well against creature heavy decks. While it doesn't exile the creatures like Eater of the Dead, Undead Alchemist will give you board presence in the form of an army of 2/2 zombies. Against creature heavy decks, Tapping the zombies to mill thanks to Phenax, God of Deception and then sacrificing them to the altar can net you 3 zombies if you hit 4 creatures. Throw in an Altar of the Brood and this can go even higher.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	deck ideas