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These Cards Do WORK! - Phenax, God of Deception - Arbitrarily Large and Incredibly Deadly!
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $192.12
Salt Sum: 36.07
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $17.99
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
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 11Price: $6.91
Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one. {T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Altar of the Pantheon (thb) 231
1
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Bonehoard

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, 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 (nec) 147
1
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
1
Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Locket: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Dimir Locket (znc) 111
1
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (scd) 270
1
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280
1
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (dmr) 235
1

Creatures

Quantity: 18Price: $33.50
Academy Elite

Academy Elite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in all graveyards. {2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Academy Elite: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Academy Elite (plst) CNS-20
1
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 (clb) 840
1
Diluvian Primordial

Flying When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Diluvian Primordial (scd) 47
1
Drakestown Forgotten

Drakestown Forgotten enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {2}{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Drakestown Forgotten: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Drakestown Forgotten (cns) 27
1
Eater of the Dead

{0}: If Eater of the Dead is tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and untap Eater of the Dead.

Creature
Eater of the Dead (drk) 44
1
Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) {X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

Creature
Geth, Lord of the Vault (brc) 107
1
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed

Inspired — Whenever King Macar, the Gold-Cursed becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed (jou) 74
1
Mnemonic Wall

Defender When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Mnemonic Wall (plst) IMA-67
1
Mortivore

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {B}: Regenerate Mortivore.

Creature
Mortivore (cm2) 69
1
Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card. Madness {1}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Necrogoyf (mh2) 93
1
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.) Nighthowler and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature Enchantment
Nighthowler (clb) 764
1
Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When Sepulchral Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (scd) 106
1
Sewer Nemesis

As Sewer Nemesis enters the battlefield, 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
1
Soulless One

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Soulless One (hop) 41
1
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 (mic) 105
1
Unhallowed Phalanx

Unhallowed Phalanx enters the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Unhallowed Phalanx (vow) 135
1
Wight of Precinct Six

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (jmp) 287
1
Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial, the Risen Deep deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359
1

Instants

Quantity: 23Price: $82.11
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
1
Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
1
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
1
Countermand

Counter target spell. Its controller mills four cards.

Instant
Countermand (jou) 33
1
Crypt Incursion

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

Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
1
Didn't Say Please

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant
Didn't Say Please (eld) 42
1
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
1
Expel from Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Instant
Expel from Orazca (rix) 37
1
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 (dmr) 48
1
Grisly Spectacle

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power.

Instant
Grisly Spectacle (ima) 92
1
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
1
Induce Paranoia

Counter target spell. If {B} was spent to cast this spell, that spell's controller mills X cards, where X is the spell's mana value.

Instant
Induce Paranoia (rav) 56
1
Intellectual Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each draw three cards. Choose an opponent. Untap all nonland permanents you control and all nonland permanents that player controls.

Instant
Intellectual Offering (c14) 15
1
Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard. Draw four cards.

Instant
Into the Story (eld) 50
1
Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (c13) 197
1
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
1
Psychic Strike

Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.

Instant
Psychic Strike (gtc) 189
1
Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
1
Thought Collapse

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant
Thought Collapse (jmp) 184
1
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
1

Lands

Quantity: 40Price: $24.22
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped. When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
15
Jwar Isle Refuge

Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield tapped. When Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Jwar Isle Refuge (scd) 306
1
Nephalia Drownyard

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

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (clb) 905
1
Port of Karfell

Port of Karfell enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Port of Karfell: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Land
Port of Karfell (clb) 908
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Shelldock Isle

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Shelldock Isle enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

Land
Shelldock Isle (plst) LRW-272
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
15
Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (moc) 431
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 7Price: $27.39
Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Aether Gale (clb) 712
1
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
1
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c17) 111
1
Dread Summons

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Sorcery
Dread Summons (ncc) 249
1
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (c16) 91
1
Treasure Cruise

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

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
1
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (2x2) 67
1

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