Freenax, God of Deception

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Mill Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

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Creature (24)

• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Overwhelmed Apprentice
• 1x Riddlekeeper
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Vantress Gargoyle
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Lost Thoughts
• 1x Wall of Runes
• 1x Wall of Tears

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Profane Memento
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Supreme Will

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Drowned Secrets
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Cry of the Carnarium
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Languish
• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 18x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Salt Marsh
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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Creature (9)

• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dragon's Eye Savants
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (2)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Instant (1)

• 1x Frantic Search

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Tried to create some budget Phenax. Feel free to give me any better card options. But keep it budget :)

My deck :)

My deck is based on milling my oponents and I got basicly just these wincons.

1. Completly mill out enemy deck and let them die when they draw a card
2. Slam somone with some huge-ass creature ( e.g. Consuming Aberration )
3. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries -> you can mill yourslef out and win. Definitely not reliable wincon, but it's nice to have more options

Even though my deck is pretty budget, it has some nasty combos :)

• Phenax, God of Deception + Any large creature (or wall -.-) Consuming Aberration, Sewer Nemesis and more...
• Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank makes infinite combo. You just mill their entire library or kill your oponent
• Sphinx's Tutelage OR Psychic Corrosion + Any draw spell Brainstorm, Into the Story and more...
• Phenax, God of Deception + Eater of the Dead pretty OP combo...
• Syr Konrad, the Grim + Crypt Incursion is kinda op againts creature decks

Thoughts and experiences

• After first few games I found out, that my deck need 2 things. Draw and counterspells. So I subbed some walls.
• I subbed even more walls and made my deck less commader oriented, which means I can mill my opponents even when they shut down my Phenax, God of Deception. Phenax, God of Deception + Creature synergy is now just one of the options, not the primary strategy. My Deck now feels much more fun...

My playgroup

My playgroup is made of pretty expirienced players. Most of my friends got expensive decks so sometimes is kinda hard to play againts them with my budget deck, but most of the times I am doing just fine. There are 7 friends in my playgroup and some of them got more commander decks. These are the decks, that are most interestring:

• Queen Marchesa control... So fun commander to play against
• Animar, Soul of Elements creature combo
• Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger discard deck
• Niv-Mizzet, Parun control
• Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath land combo
• Zurgo Bellstriker aggro

My other decks

If you are interested, check out my other decks :)

• Freenax, God of Deception: Dimir mill
• Error 404 Library not found: Mono-blue mill
• Walls can't hurt me, right?: Pauper Wall combo
• Talrand on LSD: Talrand instant tribal

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.85
Folders	deck, Mill commander