Art by Ryan Barger
Commander deckBU
Phenax, God of Deception
Control the board with countermagic and sweepers while accelerating a devastating mill gameplan using high-toughness creatures and mass mill spells.
Asked for“control, turbo mill”
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
1Phenax, God of Deception
3UBLegendary Enchantment Creature — God
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Card Draw
10
Rhystic Study
2UEnchantment
punishes opponents who cast spells with massive card advantage
Visions of Beyond
UInstant
ancestral recall once an opponent has twenty or more cards in graveyard
Removal
12
Muddle the Mixture
UUInstant
counters instants and sorceries or tutors key two-mana pieces
Threats/Wincons
22
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
2ULegendary Creature — Human Advisor
doubles all mill output for lethal bursts
Consuming Aberration
3UBCreature — Horror
massive creature that mills on every spell cast and taps to tap-mill for lethal with Phenax
Maddening Cacophony
1USorcery
mills each opponent for half their library when kicked
Fractured Sanity
UUUSorcery
efficient mass mill with uncounterable cycling option
Tree of Perdition
3BCreature — Plant
giant toughness wall that tap-mills massive chunks with Phenax
Charix, the Raging Isle
2UULegendary Creature — Leviathan Crab
massive seventeen toughness tap-mill engine
Wight of Precinct Six
1BCreature — Zombie
cheap creature that scales into a huge beater and tap-mill source
Terisian Mindbreaker
7Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
reusable unearth threat that mills half target library
Nemesis of Reason
3UBCreature — Leviathan Horror
attacks to mill ten cards unconditionally
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
1UUSorcery
exiles libraries based on mana value bypassing graveyard recursion
Altar of the Brood
1Artifact
cheap artifact that mills each opponent on any permanent entry
Utility
8
Duskmantle Guildmage
UBCreature — Human Wizard
combos with Mindcrank and weaponizes mill into life loss
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
drains opponents whenever creatures enter graveyards
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
protects key creatures and grants immediate tap-mill haste
Thousand-Year Elixir
3Artifact
lets creatures tap for Phenax immediately and untaps them
Leyline of the Void
2BBEnchantment
stops graveyard recursion strategies and eldrazi shufflers
