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Phenax
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $191.24
Salt Sum: 48.62
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Commander

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Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature. Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Creature Enchantment
Phenax, God of Deception (plst) BNG-152
1

Artifact

Quantity: 9Price: $45.83
Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
1
Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Armillary Sphere (c17) 203
1
Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Demon's Horn (m10) 209
1
Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact
Library of Leng (2ed) 258
1
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
1
Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls. Equip {2}

Artifact
Prowler's Helm (ths) 219
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c15) 268
1
Staff of the Mind Magus

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Staff of the Mind Magus (m14) 221
1
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (m13) 219
1

Creature

Quantity: 26Price: $34.62
Abyssal Specter

Flying Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Abyssal Specter (ice) 113
1
Balustrade Spy

Flying When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Balustrade Spy (gtc) 57
1
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 49
1
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (gtc) 152
1
Dimir Doppelganger

{1}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Dimir Doppelganger becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Dimir Doppelganger (cns) 186
1
Duskmantle Guildmage

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life. {2}{U}{B}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Duskmantle Guildmage (gtc) 158
1
Fleet Swallower

Whenever Fleet Swallower attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
1
Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Gyruda enters the battlefield, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gyruda, Doom of Depths (iko) 221
1
Hypnotic Specter

Flying Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature
Hypnotic Specter (4ed) 142
1
Jace's Mindseeker

Flying When Jace's Mindseeker enters the battlefield, target opponent mills five cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Jace's Mindseeker (ddm) 19
1
Mindscour Dragon

Flying Whenever Mindscour Dragon deals combat damage to an opponent, target player mills four cards.

Creature
Mindscour Dragon (frf) 41
1
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Flying Whenever Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker (dgm) 85
1
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
1
Paragon of Gathering Mists

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. {U}, {T}: Another target blue creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Paragon of Gathering Mists (m15) 73
1
Paragon of Open Graves

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Paragon of Open Graves (m15) 111
1
Returned Reveler

When Returned Reveler dies, each player mills three cards.

Creature
Returned Reveler (jou) 79
1
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Ruin Crab (znr) 75
1
Sage's Row Denizen

Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills two cards.

Creature
Sage's Row Denizen (gtc) 46
1
Sire of Stagnation

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.

Creature
Sire of Stagnation (bfz) 206
1
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (emn) 109
1
Undercity Informer

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Undercity Informer (gtc) 82
1
Unhallowed Phalanx

Unhallowed Phalanx enters the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Unhallowed Phalanx (vow) 135
1
Wight of Precinct Six

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (jmp) 287
1
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (c13) 67
1
Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial, the Risen Deep deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (cmd) 239
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 4Price: $14.56
Control Magic

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Control Magic (4ed) 64
1
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (c13) 53
1
Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process. {5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (ori) 76
1
Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
1

Instant

Quantity: 10Price: $7.42
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (ice) 64
1
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
1
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (m14) 96
1
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (eld) 188
1
Grisly Spectacle

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power.

Instant
Grisly Spectacle (gtc) 66
1
Memory Plunder

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Memory Plunder (clb) 849
1
Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Instant
Power Sink (4ed) 93
1
Psychic Strike

Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.

Instant
Psychic Strike (gtc) 189
1
Remove Soul

Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Remove Soul (chr) 25
1
Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Simulacrum (3ed) 130
1

Land

Quantity: 34Price: $23.18
Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (dgm) 148
1
Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped. When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (frf) 168
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (m15) 243
1
Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: Faerie Conclave becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Faerie Conclave (c13) 288
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (2ed) 292
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (3ed) 295
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (3ed) 297
2
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (4ed) 367
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (4ed) 368
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (chk) 293
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m11) 236
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 256
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 257
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 258
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 259
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ths) 234
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ths) 236
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ths) 237
1
Skyline Cascade

Skyline Cascade enters the battlefield tapped. When Skyline Cascade enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Skyline Cascade (bfz) 246
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (2ed) 295
2
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (2ed) 296
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (3ed) 298
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (3ed) 299
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (3ed) 300
2
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (4ed) 370
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m11) 240
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m13) 238
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (rtr) 260
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (rtr) 261
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m14) 238
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ktk) 260
1

Sorcery

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Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
1
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
1
Dreadwaters

Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of lands you control.

Sorcery
Dreadwaters (avr) 49
1
Ghastly Conscription

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then manifest those cards. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Ghastly Conscription (frf) 70
1
Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead. Flashback {X}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Increasing Confusion (dka) 41
1
Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (pznr) 67p
1
Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Sorcery
Mind Grind (gtc) 178
1
Mind Sculpt

Target opponent mills seven cards.

Sorcery
Mind Sculpt (m13) 61
1
Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery
Mind Twist (3ed) 117
1
Paranoid Delusions

Target player mills three cards. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Paranoid Delusions (gtc) 186
1
Recall

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Sorcery
Recall (chr) 24
1
Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery
Spelltwine (ddm) 34
1
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (afr) 78
1
Tome Scour

Target player mills five cards.

Sorcery
Tome Scour (m14) 75
1
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
1
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (c13) 66
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 11Price: $33.45
Court of Cunning

When Court of Cunning enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Court of Cunning (cmr) 63
1
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Fractured Sanity, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (mh2) 44
1
Imperious Mindbreaker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."

Creature
Imperious Mindbreaker (voc) 33
1
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Hexproof Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.

Creature
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind (gtc) 174
1
Mortivore

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {B}: Regenerate Mortivore.

Creature
Mortivore (cm2) 69
1
Nemesis of Reason

Whenever Nemesis of Reason attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Creature
Nemesis of Reason (plst) ARB-28
1
Psychotic Episode

Target player reveals their hand and the top card of their library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of their library. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Psychotic Episode (tsr) 132
1
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (m14) 111
1
Shadow Kin

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, Shadow Kin becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
1
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (znc) 56
1
Wall of Frost

Defender Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
1

Removed

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Benthic Infiltrator

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) Benthic Infiltrator can't be blocked.

Creature
Benthic Infiltrator (bfz) 55
1
Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (grn) 64
1
Chronic Flooding

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller mills three cards.

Enchantment
Chronic Flooding (rtr) 32
1
Clone

You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Clone (3ed) 51
1
Countermand

Counter target spell. Its controller mills four cards.

Instant
Countermand (jou) 33
1
Crosstown Courier

Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.

Creature
Crosstown Courier (rtr) 34
1
Culling Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)

Creature
Culling Drone (bfz) 91
1
Devious Cover-Up

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Instant
Devious Cover-Up (grn) 35
1
Dream Twist

Target player mills three cards. Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Dream Twist (isd) 54
1
Liliana's Specter

Flying When Liliana's Specter enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (cns) 116
1
Mind Control

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Mind Control (m12) 67
1
Mist Intruder

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)

Creature
Mist Intruder (bfz) 61
1
Returned Centaur

When Returned Centaur enters the battlefield, target player mills four cards.

Creature
Returned Centaur (ori) 116
1
Rotcrown Ghoul

When Rotcrown Ghoul dies, target player mills five cards.

Creature
Rotcrown Ghoul (avr) 72
1
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (3ed) 125
1
Shriekgeist

Flying Whenever Shriekgeist deals combat damage to a player, that player mills two cards.

Creature
Shriekgeist (dka) 49
1
Sibsig Icebreakers

When Sibsig Icebreakers enters the battlefield, each player discards a card.

Creature
Sibsig Icebreakers (dtk) 119
1
Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Sorcery
Vicious Rumors (grn) 89
1
Wet Willie of the Damned

Wet Willie of the Damned deals 2½ damage to any target and you gain 2½ life.

Sorcery
Wet Willie of the Damned (unh) 66
1

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