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Phenax, God of Deception
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $1335.39
Salt Sum: 56.64
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $27.99
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 (sld) 75
1

Artifact

Quantity: 10Price: $155.40
Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
1
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 589
1
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (sld) 287
1
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (ema) 223
1
Mesmeric Orb

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

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
1
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (nph) 144
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
1
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (sld) 1053
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (sld) 1495
1
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 (c21) 271
1

Creature

Quantity: 14Price: $91.46
Aboleth Spawn

Flash Ward {2} Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering the battlefield 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
1
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
1
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) 640
1
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle 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) 386
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 (znc) 89
1
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drift of Phantasms (rav) 46
1
Duskmantle Guildmage

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life. {2}{U}{B}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Duskmantle Guildmage (gtc) 158
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
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills three cards.

Creature
Hedron Crab (plst) ZEN-47
1
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, 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) 295
1
The Cyber-Controller

When The Cyber-Controller enters the battlefield, each opponent mills X cards. Put all creature cards milled this way onto the battlefield face down under your control. They're 2/2 Cyberman artifact creatures. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
The Cyber-Controller (who) 119
1
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (j22) 75
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
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) 619
1

Enchantment

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Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 636
1
Court of Cunning

When Court of Cunning enters the battlefield, 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
1
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
1
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sld) 425
1
Memory Erosion

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

Enchantment
Memory Erosion (plst) CM2-45
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (sld) 406
1
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (who) 219
1
Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 71
1

Instant

Quantity: 13Price: $176.47
Archmage's Charm

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant
Archmage's Charm (sch) 2
1
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (sta) 15
1
Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 946
1
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
1
Drown in Dreams

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

Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
1
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 (eld) 188
1
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
1
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 421
1
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. • 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 (mom) 77
1
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (who) 222
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (cmr) 656
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 (m12) 80
1

Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (2xm) 369
1
Bad River

Bad River enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Sacrifice Bad River: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bad River (mir) 324
1
Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (sld) 426
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 325
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (md1) 15
1
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (slu) 15Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (slu) 15
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cc2) 8
1
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (who) 1078
1
Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped. When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (2x2) 404
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 (who) 1083
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (sld) 471
1
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
1
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (sld) 468
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (sld) 255
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (sld) 466
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (sld) 551
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 270
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 271
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (zne) 17
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (tsr) 408
1
Nephalia Drownyard

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

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (sld) 351
1
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 414
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 (sld) 437
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 285
1
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (sld) 472
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 (exp) 2
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (pelp) 5
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 104
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 256
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 48
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 65
1
Tolaria West

Tolaria West enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Land
Tolaria West (tsr) 286
1
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Undercity Sewers enters the battlefield tapped. When Undercity Sewers enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 332
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 300
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (sld) 124
1

Planeswalker

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Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Dream Render (sld) 399
1
Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (sld) 1141
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 15Price: $170.45
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 (mom) 358
1
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
1
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 353
1
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
1
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Fractured Sanity, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (mh2) 336
1
Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Life's Finale (nph) 65
1
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
1
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
1
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
1
Praetor's Grasp

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Sorcery
Praetor's Grasp (sld) 1023
1
Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113
1
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (afr) 368
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cc2) 6
1
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (c20) 128
1

Tokens & Extras

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Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tvow) 19
1
Horror

Creature Token
Horror (tclb) 31
2
The Monarch

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, its controller becomes the monarch.

Card
The Monarch (tafc) 13
1
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (temn) 3
1

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