Fresh Bread

Commander / EDH* Mill UB (Dimir)

AmosMoses

Creature (36)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Blizzard Specter
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghastlord of Fugue
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Horseshoe Crab
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Isleback Spawn
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Ludevic's Test Subject  ^Flip
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Szadek, Lord of Secrets
• 1x Wall of Air
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 12x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Pemmin's Aura

Artifact (19)

• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (5)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Undermine
• 1x Unsummon

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Traumatize

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Telemin Performance

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My take on a Phenax EDH Mill deck. The idea is obvious. Get Phenax in play, start tapping creatures to mill based on their toughness. The lack of tutors is intentional.

Mill Tech

Several creatures get larger the more stuff is in graveyards Sewer Nemesis and Consuming Aberration get biggest quickest.

Knacksaw Clique, Horseshoe Crab or a creature enchanted with Pemmin's Aura can do work when combined with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, Chromatic Lantern or Gauntlet of Power to generate lots of blue mana.

Rings of Brighthearth, Illusionist's Bracers and Umbral Mantle, Thousand-Year Elixir all get more value from the activated ability Phenax grants.

Avatar of Woe

Avatar of Woe is worth a mention as I've not seen it included in any other Phenax EDH decks. It will likely cost you only 2 mana to cast and you have a choice of milling for 5 or destroying a creature. Possibly both if you use some untap tricks. Seems pretty nice in this deck.

Questions/options

Not sure about the land balance or if there are any awesome lands i'm missing.

Until now i'm relying on hexproofing artifacts Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Champion's Helm and to a lesser extent Ring of Evos Isle to protect Phenax fromm targeted removal. Also Unsummon and Into the Roil can be used to bounce him. Not sure if there is anything else i should be considering, or what i would remove to get it in.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.85
Tokens	Human 2/2 G, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Wolf 2/2 G