Art by Ryan Barger
Commander deckBU
Phenax, God of Deception
Aggressively mill opponents out using high-toughness tap engines and compact, lethal mill combos like Eater of the Dead, Mindcrank loops, and Bruvac doubling.
Asked for“turbo mill, quick wincons”
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 · 61 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
1Phenax, God of Deception
3UBLegendary Enchantment Creature — God
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
9
Card Draw
10
Notion Thief
2UBCreature — Human Rogue
punishes opposing draw and combos with Windfall
Removal
11
Threats/Wincons
23
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
2ULegendary Creature — Human Advisor
doubles all mill to end games immediately
Eater of the Dead
4BCreature — Horror
goes infinite with Phenax to mill all opponents out
Duskmantle Guildmage
UBCreature — Human Wizard
infinite life loss and mill combo with Mindcrank
Painter's Servant
2Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
two-card infinite mill combo with Grindstone
Terisian Mindbreaker
7Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
repeatable half-library mill on attack with unearth
Court of Cunning
1UUEnchantment
grants Monarch and repeatedly mills each opponent for ten
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
turns every milled creature into direct table-wide damage
Tree of Perdition
3BCreature — Plant
massive thirteen-toughness tapper under Phenax
Charix, the Raging Isle
2UULegendary Creature — Leviathan Crab
massive seventeen-toughness blocker and mill engine
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
2BBLegendary Creature — Human Noble
inspired trigger exiles creatures when tapped by Phenax
Undead Alchemist
3UCreature — Zombie
swarms zombie tokens from milled creature cards
Utility
8
Muddle the Mixture
UUInstant
counterspell that transmutes for Mindcrank or Guildmage
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
provides haste so Phenax tap engines work immediately
Thousand-Year Elixir
3Artifact
gives creatures pseudo-haste to tap for Phenax instantly
Pemmin's Aura
1UUEnchantment — Aura
enables multiple untaps for massive mill in a single turn
