Tapmill

Commander / EDH* Control Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (21)

• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Raven Guild Master
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wake Thrasher
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 10x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mist of Stagnation
• 1x Tombstone Stairwell

Artifact (11)

• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Instant (14)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Empty the Pits
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Induce Paranoia
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Spin into Myth
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Commander (1)

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There's just something satisfyingly challenging about trying to mill multiple 99 card decks... Phenax manages to do so suprisingly often.

Game plan is pretty simple: early game blue and black control elements along with cheap creatures either with graveyard synergy or untap abilities let you survive. The main goal early is to get at least a few cards into graveyards, ideally using Traumatize, Archive Trap or swinging a few times with Sword of Feast and Famine, less ideally with Phenax and some taps.

This deck is really driven by having cards in the graveyard, as having Phenax, God of Deception and either Consuming Aberration, Wight of Precinct Six or Nighthowler will end the game pretty fast.

A few combos end the game pretty much on the spot: Mindcrank + Duskmantle Guildmage or Bloodchief Ascension, Phenax, God of Deception + Disciple of Deceit, Phenax, God of Deception + Eater of the Dead, Traumatize + Keening Stone.

Current sleeper OP: Thousand-Year Elixir. Usually there's no indication you're about to go off until the turn before you do, and this little guy fixes that and flys under even the Memnarch player's radar.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.63
Tokens	Human 2/2 G, Morph 2/2 C, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB