Phenax, God of Deception - Mill - MTG EDH

🌀 Phenax, God of Deception – Mono-Blue-Black Mill Commander Deck (100 Cards, EDH) – Fortress of Forgotten Minds 🧠
Why brawl when you can outthink? Phenax, God of Deception doesn’t care about life totals—he wins by reducing your opponents’ minds to dust. This is a Dimir (blue/black) mill control deck that turns high-toughness creatures into win conditions and your opponents' libraries into empty promises.

🧱 Strategy Overview
At the heart of this fortress sits Phenax, indestructible and untouchable unless your devotion slips. He grants every creature in your army the power to tap and mill an opponent for its toughness—which stacks fast.
No Combat Required: We don’t attack. That’s for peasants. We wall up with massive creatures like Charix, the Raging Isle, Sire of Stagnation, and Glacial Wall—then tap to mill for 7, 10, or even 13 at a time.
Phenax Is Instant-Speed Pressure: Since Phenax grants the ability at instant speed, you can mill during opponents' end steps, dodge removal, and always threaten the win.
Maddening Synergies: Cards like Fraying Sanity, Patient Rebuilding, and Syr Konrad capitalize on every card that hits the grave. Crypt Incursion can turn that graveyard into lifegain if needed.

💀 Commander Identity: Dimir Mill Fortress
Commander: Phenax, God of Deception
Theme: Mill, Toughness Control, Instant-Speed Pressure
Win Conditions:
Mill opponents out with high-toughness creatures
Use enchantments like Teferi’s Tutelage and Fraying Sanity for passive drain
Exploit graveyards with Crypt Incursion or Syr Konrad

🧠 Key Synergies
Phenax + Charix, Unhallowed Phalanx, or Wall of Frost = Instant 8–13 card mills
Teferi’s Tutelage + Draw Spells = Passive mill pressure
Syr Konrad + Opponent Graveyards = Bonus life loss while milling
Patient Rebuilding = Draw and mill engine
Keening Stone = Single-player kill switch

✅ What You Get
✔️ 100-card Commander deck – fully EDH legal
✔️ Features Sol Ring, Crypt Incursion, Teferi’s Tutelage, and more
✔️ High-toughness, low-cost creatures optimized for Phenax’s ability
✔️ Safely packaged and shipped to your door for free

Commander
Phenax, God of Deception

Creatures
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Charix, the Raging Isle
Mortivore
Nighthowler
Cruel Somnophage
Sire of Stagnation
Sewer Nemesis
Shadow Kin
Undead Alchemist
Consuming Aberration
Notion Thief
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Ioreth of the Healing House
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
Wall of Lost Thoughts
Glacial Wall
Duskmantle Guildmage
Fog Bank
Wall of Frost
Manic Scribe
Hover Barrier
Aegis Turtle
Jace's Phantasm
Unhallowed Phalanx
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Merfolk Secretkeeper
Wall of Runes
Barrier of Bones
Wight of Precinct Six

Sorcery/Instants
Drown in Dreams
Aetherize
Into the Story
Extract from Darkness
Didn't Say Please
Grisly Spectacle
Thought Scour
Thought Collapse
Disdainful Stroke
Psychic Strike
Crypt Incursion
Negate
Feed the Swarm
Treasure Cruise
Pilfered Plans

Enchantments
Fraying Sanity
Drowned Secrets
Patient Rebuilding
Teferi's Tutelage

Artifacts
Keening Stone
Bonehoard
Riverchurn Monument
Sol Ring
Talisman of Dominance
Mind Stone
Dimir Locket
Wayfarer's Bauble
Dimir Signet
Arcane Signet
Commander's Sphere

Lands
Nephalia Drownyard
Choked Estuary
Darkwater Catacombs
Sunken Hollow
Dimir Aqueduct
Jwar Isle Refuge
Lonely Sandbar
Desert of the Mindful
Dimir Guildgate
Dismal Backwater
Terramorphic Expanse
Evolving Wilds
Command Tower
16x Islands
10x Swamps