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Character - Zellix, Sanity Flayer
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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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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) 665

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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
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 (pafr) 60p
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (tdc) 319
Silent Hallcreeper

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. • Draw a card. • This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.

Creature Enchantment
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72
The Everflowing Well

Artifact
The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56
Wharf Infiltrator

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Creature
Wharf Infiltrator (clb) 737

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Finisher

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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 (c14) 229
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) 668

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Land

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bro) 271
Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Lonely Sandbar (ddt) 27

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Mill

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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
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
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 (hou) 35
Ghoulcaller's Bell

{T}: Each player mills a card.

Artifact
Ghoulcaller's Bell (isd) 224
Manic Scribe

When this creature enters, each opponent mills three cards. Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that player mills three cards.

Creature
Manic Scribe (soi) 73
Memory Erosion

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

Enchantment
Memory Erosion (ala) 50
Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68
Screaming Swarm

Flying Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {2}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard into your library second from the top.

Creature
Screaming Swarm (vow) 75
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, this creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
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
Teferi's Tutelage

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Teferi's Tutelage (m21) 78
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) 66
Undead Alchemist

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards. Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Undead Alchemist (isd) 84
Vantress Gargoyle

Flying This creature can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard. This creature can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand. {T}: Each player mills a card.

Creature Artifact
Vantress Gargoyle (eld) 71

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Ramp

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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) 666

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Removal

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Disturbing Conversion

Flash Enchant creature When this Aura enters, each player mills two cards. Enchanted creature gets -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Enchantment
Disturbing Conversion (mom) 54
Illithid Harvester

Creature
Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles (clb) 76
Mind Flayer

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

Creature
Mind Flayer (clb) 728
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 (inr) 80
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

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Tokens

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Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (plst) M15-46

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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) 662
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Altar of the Brood

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

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
Ambassador Laquatus

{3}: Target player mills three cards.

Creature
Ambassador Laquatus (tor) 23
Belltower Sphinx

Flying Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller mills that many cards.

Creature
Belltower Sphinx (m12) 46
Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
Cathartic Adept

{T}: Target player mills a card.

Creature
Cathartic Adept (ala) 34
Chill of Foreboding

Each player mills five cards. Flashback {7}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Chill of Foreboding (dka) 32
Chronic Flooding

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

Enchantment
Chronic Flooding (rtr) 32
Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Crosstown Courier

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.

Creature
Crosstown Courier (ddm) 6
Curse of Surveillance

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, any number of target players other than that player each draw cards equal to the number of Curses attached to that player.

Enchantment
Curse of Surveillance (mid) 46
Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Curse of the Bloody Tome (isd) 50
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
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
Dakra Mystic

{U}, {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Creature
Dakra Mystic (jou) 35
Diligent Excavator

Whenever you cast a historic spell, target player mills two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature
Diligent Excavator (dom) 51
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
Drowned Secrets

Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Drowned Secrets (grn) 39
Drowner Initiate

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, target player mills two cards.

Creature
Drowner Initiate (shm) 36
Drowner of Secrets

Tap an untapped Merfolk you control: Target player mills a card.

Creature
Drowner of Secrets (lrw) 58
Excavated Wall

Defender {1}, {T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Excavated Wall (stx) 255
Fleet Swallower

Whenever this creature attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
Forced Fruition

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

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (wot) 18
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 (drc) 77
Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Artifact
Grimoire of the Dead (scd) 265
Grindclock

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Grindclock (m15) 217
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Hedron Crab (tdc) 155
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 (vow) 63
Imperious Mindbreaker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. 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
Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Enchantment
Jace's Erasure (m12) 60
Jace's Mindseeker

Flying When this creature enters, 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 (m14) 61
Keening Stone

{5}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in that player's graveyard.

Artifact
Keening Stone (brr) 26
Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
Ludevic's Test Subject

Creature
Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (pisd) 64★Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (pisd) 64★
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
Merfolk Mesmerist

{U}, {T}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Merfolk Mesmerist (m12) 66
Merfolk Secretkeeper

Creature
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 53
Merfolk Windrobber

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

Creature
Merfolk Windrobber (znr) 70
Mesmeric Orb

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

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (mrd) 204
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 (drc) 79
Millstone

{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards.

Artifact
Millstone (plst) M19-242
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
Mystic Redaction

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Mystic Redaction (mh2) 53
Overlord of the Floodpits

Impending 4—{1}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Flying Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Floodpits (dsk) 68
Overwhelmed Apprentice

When this creature enters, each opponent mills two cards. Then you 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.)

Creature
Overwhelmed Apprentice (eld) 60
Patchwork Crawler

{2}{U}: Exile target creature card from your graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Creature
Patchwork Crawler (vow) 72
Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
Renegade Silent

At the beginning of your end step, goad up to one target creature you don't control and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Creature
Renegade Silent (who) 53
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
Sage's Row Denizen

Whenever another blue creature you control enters, target player mills two cards.

Creature
Sage's Row Denizen (m20) 73
Selhoff Occultist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player mills a card.

Creature
Selhoff Occultist (isd) 73
Shard of Broken Glass

Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may mill two cards. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Shard of Broken Glass (soi) 262
Shriekgeist

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

Creature
Shriekgeist (dka) 49
Skaab Ruinator

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile three creature cards from your graveyard. Flying You may cast this card from your graveyard.

Creature
Skaab Ruinator (dsc) 128
Sphinx Mindbreaker

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.

Creature
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
Startled Awake

Sorcery
Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare (soi) 88Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare (soi) 88
Stitched Mangler

This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Stitched Mangler (soi) 89
Stitcher Geralf

{2}{U}, {T}: Each player mills three cards. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.

Creature
Stitcher Geralf (cmm) 121
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
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177
The Flood of Mars

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Water Always Wins — Whenever this creature attacks, put a flood counter on another target creature or land. If it's a creature, it becomes a copy of this creature. If it's a land, it becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Creature
The Flood of Mars (who) 45
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (inr) 91Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (inr) 91
Thought Collapse

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant
Thought Collapse (jmp) 184
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (one) 288
Tome Scour

Target player mills five cards.

Sorcery
Tome Scour (m11) 76
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (10e) 119
Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (5dn) 39
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
Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

Instant
Winds of Rebuke (akh) 76
Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery. 1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy. 10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost. 20 | Copy each card exiled with this artifact. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Artifact
Wizard's Spellbook (afr) 82

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