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Phenax God of Deception
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Est deck cost: $334.06
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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

Commander

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Draw

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Brainsurge

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 53
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Planeswalker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor (ema) 57
Pilfered Plans

Target player mills two cards. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Pilfered Plans (dgm) 90
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (who) 218
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m15) 114
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (c16) 271
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (dka) 52
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (uma) 79

Draw

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Mill

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Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library. −X: Put a creature card with mana value X exiled with Ashiok onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types. −10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver (ths) 188
Balustrade Spy

Flying When this creature enters, 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
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Bruvac the Grandiloquent (rvr) 418
Coerced Confession

Target player mills four cards. You draw a card for each creature card put into their graveyard this way.

Sorcery
Coerced Confession (gtc) 217
Compelling Argument

Target player mills five cards. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Compelling Argument (plst) AKH-47
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 (pgtc) 152★
Dampen Thought

Target player mills four cards. Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Dampen Thought (mma) 39
Deepmuck Desperado

Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent mills three cards. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Deepmuck Desperado (otj) 42
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 (plst) EMA-47
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
Glimpse the Unthinkable

Target player mills ten cards.

Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (rav) 208
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.

Creature
Hedron Crab (plst) ZEN-47
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
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 (znr) 67
Mind Funeral

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard.

Sorcery
Mind Funeral (arb) 26
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
Mind Sculpt

Target opponent mills seven cards.

Sorcery
Mind Sculpt (plst) M15-70
Psychic Drain

Target player mills X cards and you gain X life.

Sorcery
Psychic Drain (rav) 220
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, 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
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner can't be blocked. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.

Creature Enchantment
The Mindskinner (dsk) 357
Tome Scour

Target player mills five cards.

Sorcery
Tome Scour (m10) 76
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
Trepanation Blade

Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into their graveyard. Equip {2}

Artifact
Trepanation Blade (isd) 235
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 (plst) GTC-82
Wight of Precinct Six

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (gtc) 84
Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. {1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Zellix, Sanity Flayer (clb) 652

Mill

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Removal

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Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Countermand

Counter target spell. Its controller mills four cards.

Instant
Countermand (jou) 33
Essence Scatter

Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Essence Scatter (akh) 52
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (cmm) 89
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Flare of Denial (mh3) 62
Logic Knot

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Instant
Logic Knot (mma) 51
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (aer) 40
Peel from Reality

Return target creature you control and target creature you don't control to their owners' hands.

Instant
Peel from Reality (m15) 74
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66

Removal

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Untap

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Ioreth of the Healing House

{T}: Untap another target permanent. {T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Creature
Ioreth of the Healing House (ltr) 56
Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 250

Untap

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Counters

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Convolute

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Convolute (plst) EMN-53

Counters

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Evasion

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Deathcult Rogue

This creature can't be blocked except by Rogues.

Creature
Deathcult Rogue (gtc) 218

Evasion

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Protection

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Neurok Stealthsuit

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {U}{U}: Attach Neurok Stealthsuit to target creature you control. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Neurok Stealthsuit (5dn) 140
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (5dn) 150

Protection

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Stax

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Winter Moon

Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Moon (mh3) 213

Stax

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Cycling

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Scarab Feast

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Scarab Feast (plst) AKH-106

Cycling

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Finisher

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Doomsday Excruciator

Flying When this creature enters, if it was cast, each player exiles all but the bottom six cards of their library face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card.

Creature
Doomsday Excruciator (dsk) 346

Finisher

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Ramp

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Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (c16) 248
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (cmm) 387
Manalith

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Manalith (hou) 164
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (m3c) 189
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 232
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c15) 268
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (pip) 251
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298

Ramp

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Theft

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Rogue Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled. {1}{U}{B}: Level 2 Creatures you control have menace. {2}{U}{B}: Level 3 You may play cards exiled with this Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment
Rogue Class (afr) 230

Theft

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Discard

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Mind Shatter

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery
Mind Shatter (plst) MM3-77

Discard

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Land

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Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Crumbling Vestige

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, add one mana of any color. {T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Land
Crumbling Vestige (ogw) 170
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Darkslick Shores

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (gtc) 241
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (m15) 243
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (pip) 264
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mbs) 149
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (avr) 235
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 255
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rtr) 257
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m15) 254
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (akh) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (hou) 192
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 661
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 465
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (som) 238
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (avr) 236
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ddr) 67
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (hou) 187
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 270
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (mma) 224
Uncharted Haven

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Uncharted Haven (blb) 261
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (gtc) 249

Land

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Recursion

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Stream of Consciousness

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Instant
Stream of Consciousness (uma) 74

Recursion

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Tutor

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Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 289
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (plst) LRW-66
Fractured Sanity

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

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Hexproof Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav 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 (znc) 92
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
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 (plst) ORI-76
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Maybeboard

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