Art by Andrey Kuzinskiy
Commander deckBU
Captain N'ghathrod
Deploy terrifying Horrors to menace opponents and mill their decks upon combat damage, reanimating their best milled threats each end step while assembling game-ending mill combos with Mindcrank.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Captain N'ghathrod
3UBLegendary Creature — Horror Pirate
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Card Draw
9
Removal
10
Drown in the Loch
UBInstant
modal counter or kill spell scaling with milled graveyards
Threats/Wincons
24
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
2ULegendary Creature — Horror
creates Horror tokens whenever players mill creatures
Uchuulon
3BCreature — Crab Ooze Horror
exponentially cloning horror threat that consumes graveyards
Aboleth Spawn
2UCreature — Fish Horror
horror that copies opponent creature enters-the-battlefield triggers
Toxrill, the Corrosive
5BBLegendary Creature — Slug Horror
oppressive horror that wipes boards and generates slugs
Hullbreaker Horror
5UUCreature — Kraken Horror
un-counterable game-dominating control horror
Nemesis of Reason
3UBCreature — Leviathan Horror
mills ten cards whenever it attacks
Consuming Aberration
3UBCreature — Horror
grows massive from graveyards and mills on spellcast
Sludge Monster
3UUCreature — Horror
turns enemy threats into harmless slime with horrors
Guiltfeeder
3BBCreature — Horror
causes direct life loss based on cards in target graveyard
Brainstealer Dragon
5BBCreature — Dragon Horror
horror dragon that steals and casts exiled cards while burning foes
Ravenous Chupacabra
2BBCreature — Beast Horror
horror that destroys a creature on entry
Sire of Stagnation
4UBCreature — Eldrazi
punishes opponent land drops with mill and card draw
Arvinox, the Mind Flail
4BBBLegendary Enchantment Creature — Horror
horror that exiles cards from libraries and animates as a huge body
Phyrexian Obliterator
BBBBCreature — Phyrexian Horror
devastating horror attacker with menace that punishes damage
Spellskite
2Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
horror that redirects removal away from key pieces
Chasm Skulker
2UCreature — Squid Horror
horror that grows with draw and explodes into squid tokens
Geth, Lord of the Vault
4BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
reanimates enemy creatures and artifacts while milling them
Sewer Nemesis
3BCreature — Horror
scales in power from a chosen player's graveyard while milling them
Duskmantle Guildmage
UBCreature — Human Wizard
infinite mill-drain combo engine with Mindcrank
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
drains opponents whenever creatures are milled or die
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
1UCreature — Horror // Creature — Kraken Horror
horror that bounces non-Horrors when transformed
Wharf Infiltrator
1UCreature — Human Horror
horror that creates Eldrazi Horror tokens when creatures are discarded
Utility
9
Bloodchief Ascension
BEnchantment
infinite mill-damage win condition alongside Mindcrank
Court of Cunning
1UUEnchantment
introduces the monarch and mills ten cards each upkeep
Fractured Sanity
UUUSorcery
mills each opponent for fourteen cards or cycles in a pinch
Animate Dead
1BEnchantment — Aura
cheap reanimation spell to leverage stocked graveyards
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
gives commander and horrors haste and shroud
