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Mind Flayers
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Est deck cost: $373.86
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Captain N'ghathrod

Horrors you control have menace. Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards. At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Captain N'ghathrod (clb) 646

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Mill

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Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (pmom) 94p
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 (jmp) 10
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 (znc) 89
Court of Cunning

When this enchantment enters, 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
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) 410
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 (mh2) 44
Guiltfeeder

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Creature
Guiltfeeder (clb) 756
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) 330
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
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Nemesis of Reason

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Creature
Nemesis of Reason (clb) 850
Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68
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
Sewer Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Creature
Sewer Nemesis (clb) 771
Terisian Mindbreaker

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Terisian Mindbreaker (bro) 83
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

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Removal

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Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Crippling Fear (scd) 72
Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Destroy two target creatures.

Instant
Curtains' Call (clb) 746
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (who) 221
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (woc) 95
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Mind Flayer (afr) 63
Overcharged Amalgam

Flash Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Creature
Overcharged Amalgam (clb) 729
Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 308
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (rix) 82
Sludge Monster

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a slime counter on up to one other target creature. Non-Horror creatures with slime counters on them lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 2/2.

Creature
Sludge Monster (clb) 735
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132

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Copy

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Aboleth Spawn

Flash Ward {2} Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Aboleth Spawn (clb) 612
Endless Evil

Enchant creature you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except the token is 1/1. When enchanted creature dies, if that creature was a Horror, return this card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Endless Evil (clb) 615
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

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Protection

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Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Spellskite (mm2) 230
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c13) 263

Protection

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Stax

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Phyrexian Revoker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Revoker (clb) 868

Stax

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Draw

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Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Instant
Drown in Dreams (m3c) 181
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Forgotten Creation

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Creature
Forgotten Creation (clb) 721
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (afr) 367
Phyrexian Rager

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Phyrexian Rager (mbs) 51
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (akh) 65

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Pump

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Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature Enchantment
Nighthowler (clb) 764

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Theft

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Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (otc) 127
Elder Brain

Menace Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Elder Brain (clb) 125
Intellect Devourer

Devour Intellect — When this creature enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until this creature leaves the battlefield. Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Intellect Devourer (clb) 132
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

Theft

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Evasion

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Dauthi Horror

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) This creature can't be blocked by white creatures.

Creature
Dauthi Horror (tmp) 122
Vorrac Battlehorns

Equipped creature has trample and can't be blocked by more than one creature. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact
Vorrac Battlehorns (mrd) 271

Evasion

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U}{B}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Dimir Keyrune (znc) 110
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (rav) 260
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (c16) 253
Grell Philosopher

Aberrant Tinkering — When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, each Horror you control gains all activated abilities of target artifact an opponent controls until end of turn. You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Creature
Grell Philosopher (clb) 616
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (plst) C17-53
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (wth) 153
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (woc) 150
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (who) 255

Ramp

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Tokens

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Hunted Horror

Trample When this creature enters, target opponent creates two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black.

Creature
Hunted Horror (rav) 90
Uchuulon

Uchuulon's power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control. Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Uchuulon (clb) 626

Tokens

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Land

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Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (afc) 228
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dmc) 204
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (afc) 232
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (c19) 239
Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land
Drownyard Temple (clb) 892
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (und) 89
Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (clb) 905
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 (afc) 254
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (rtr) 245
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (afc) 265
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (eld) 258
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (clb) 920
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (clb) 922
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260

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Recursion

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Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (clb) 844
Psionic Ritual

Replicate—Tap an untapped Horror you control. (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Psionic Ritual.

Sorcery
Psionic Ritual (clb) 618
Rise of the Dark Realms

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

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183

Recursion

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