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Phenax!
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Est deck cost: $398.36
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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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Gravers

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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
Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 222
Mortivore

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Creature
Mortivore (cmd) 89
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
Wight of Precinct Six

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

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (jmp) 287

Gravers

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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 (40k) 228
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (woc) 146
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 (otc) 100
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (ltc) 282
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 430
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree

{2}, {T}: Target opponent mills three cards. Put a land card from their graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. It gains "If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." {10}, {T}, Sacrifice Realmbreaker: Search your library for any number of Praetor cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree (mom) 263
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 251
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (dmc) 191
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (40k) 255

Ramp

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Big Butts

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Aegis Turtle

Creature
Aegis Turtle (iko) 39
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant

Creature
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant (dft) 40
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix 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
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature
Hover Barrier (rtr) 40
Jace's Phantasm

Flying This creature gets +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in their graveyard.

Creature
Jace's Phantasm (ima) 60
Merfolk Secretkeeper

Creature
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 53
Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (inr) 135

Big Butts

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Graveyard Hate

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Crypt Incursion

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

Instant
Crypt Incursion (ltc) 198
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
Lazav, Familiar Stranger

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Lazav. Then you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Lazav, Familiar Stranger (otj) 216
Soulless Jailer

Permanent cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.

Creature Artifact
Soulless Jailer (one) 241
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (m21) 241
Weathered Runestone

Nonland permanent cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Artifact
Weathered Runestone (khm) 247

Graveyard Hate

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96

Recursion

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Card Draw

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Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Pollywog Prodigy

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell with mana value less than this creature's power, draw a card.

Creature
Pollywog Prodigy (blc) 15
Sire of Stagnation

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

Creature
Sire of Stagnation (bfz) 206
Struggle for Project Purity

As this enchantment enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave. • Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way. • Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.

Enchantment
Struggle for Project Purity (pip) 39
Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Sygg, River Cutthroat (plst) ZNC-103
Talion, the Kindly Lord

Flying As Talion enters, choose a number between 1 and 10. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Talion, the Kindly Lord (woe) 215
Temple Bell

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Artifact
Temple Bell (c16) 277
Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Visions of Beyond (uma) 81

Card Draw

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Interaction

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
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 (clb) 842
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 (lcc) 198
Lost in the Maze

Flash When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Enchantment
Lost in the Maze (mkm) 64
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (pmom) 77p

Interaction

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Staxy

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Silent Arbiter

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

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (c20) 250

Staxy

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Direct Mill

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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
Dreamborn Muse

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

Creature
Dreamborn Muse (cmd) 44
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
Mesmeric Orb

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

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68
Riddlekeeper

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller mills two cards.

Creature
Riddlekeeper (cm2) 48
Riverchurn Monument

{1}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Exhaust — {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Artifact
Riverchurn Monument (dft) 57
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

Direct Mill

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (c20) 259
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 (lcc) 322
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 266
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (who) 269
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
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (ltc) 305
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Pit of Offerings

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land
Pit of Offerings (lci) 278
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (who) 312
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
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 (woc) 170
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (otc) 338

Land

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Win Con

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Eater of the Dead

{0}: If this creature is tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and untap this creature.

Creature
Eater of the Dead (drk) 44
Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (8ed) 86
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
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

Win Con

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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
Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (plst) C17-81
Bonehoard

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards. Equip {2}

Artifact
Bonehoard (znc) 108
Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (c18) 86
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Fraying Sanity

Enchant player At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Enchantment
Fraying Sanity (wot) 19
Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

Flash Flying Whenever Malcolm deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel (lci) 63
Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Memory Erosion (cm2) 45
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
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (woe) 251
The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. {2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Creature
The Ancient One (lci) 222
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
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (plst) LRW-263
Wall of Lost Thoughts

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Wall of Lost Thoughts (jmp) 190

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Fortuitous Find

Choose one or both — • Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Fortuitous Find (kld) 81
Vexing Bauble

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Vexing Bauble (mh3) 212

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