James Phenax • (Dimir Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $15.99

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 "

: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$15.99 $11.43 $10.40

Commander

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Clones

Qty: 2 Price: $1.18

Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Dimir Doppelganger

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$0.69 $0.56 $0.36

Clones

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $0.84

Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Overwhelming Denial

Surge

(You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Counters

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Draw

Qty: 3 Price: $18.77

Blue Sun's Zenith

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

Instant

$5.49 $2.64 $1.99

Jace's Archivist

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

Creature - Wizard Vedalken

$10.99 $7.85 $6.35

Well of Ideas

When this enchantment enters, draw two cards.
At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.54 $1.30

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $3.84

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Wonder

Flying
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature - Incarnation

$3.49 $2.09 $2.08

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $2.78

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$2.29 $1.82 $0.73

Guardian of the Ages

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if this creature has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $22.00

Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.37 $0.26

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $2.29 $1.71

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Fetid Pools

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Grixis Panorama

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.49 $0.36 $0.16

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Jwar Isle Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Mystic Sanctuary

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

$2.49 $2.05 $1.30

Nephalia Drownyard

: Add

: Target player mills three cards.

Land

$0.69 $0.33 $0.20

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Witch's Cottage

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$1.49 $0.82 $0.36

Land

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Mill

Qty: 19 Price: $58.73

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.

Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok

$1.79 $1.34 $0.36

Codex Shredder

: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Doorkeeper

Defender

: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature - Homunculus

$0.49 $0.39 $0.18

Fleet Swallower

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

Creature - Fish

$2.99 $1.21 $0.88

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 - Aura Curse

$0.99 $0.75 $0.45

Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$2.49 $0.93 $0.83

Memory Erosion

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

Enchantment

$9.49 $7.20 $5.34

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

$4.49 $2.94 $1.56

Mindcrank

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

Artifact

$13.99 $11.09 $7.03

Mindshrieker

Flying

: Target player mills a card. This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Creature - Bird Spirit

$0.49 $0.56 $0.26

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Flying
Whenever Mirko Vosk deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Legendary Creature - Vampire

$0.79 $0.40 $0.23

Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment

$7.99 $4.59 $3.26

Psychic Spiral

Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player mills that many cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

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 - Crab

$1.49 $1.41 $0.41

Sands of Delirium

: Target player mills X cards.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.41 $0.15

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.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment

$2.49 $1.79 $0.51

Startled Awake

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Sorcery

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare (soi) 88

$1.49 $1.02 $0.19

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery

$5.49 $9.99 $3.20

Wight of Precinct Six

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

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 7 Price: $3.67

Consulate Skygate

Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Crab Umbra

Enchant creature

: Untap enchanted creature.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.41 $0.25

Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Creature - Wall

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Creature - Jellyfish

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

$1.29 $0.81 $0.56

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99

Colossus Hammer

Equipped creature gets +10/+10 and loses flying.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $2.36 $0.69

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 2 Price: $3.14

Armillary Sphere

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Golden Guardian

Defender

: This creature fights another target creature you control. When this creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Creature Artifact - Golem

Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison (rix) 179

$2.79 $2.31 $1.25

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 5 Price: $2.43

Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.17 $0.15

Junktroller

Defender

: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Mnemonic Wall

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

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Spellkeeper Weird

, Sacrifice this creature: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Weird

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 13 Price: $27.09

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$0.99 $1.20 $0.26

Crook of Condemnation

: Exile target card from a graveyard.

, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant

$0.79 $0.88 $0.50

Flood of Tears

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.80 $0.15

Mass Manipulation

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery

$1.99 $2.43 $1.30

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Instant

$9.99 $8.00 $4.30

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant

$2.29 $1.32 $0.56

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$2.99 $2.61 $2.00

Thought Collapse

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.29 $1.66 $0.79

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery

$2.29 $0.86 $0.23

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact

$20.99 $17.17 $13.41

Sac Outlet

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Theft

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Shifting Loyalties

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a card type. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are card types.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Theft

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $2.98

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment

$2.49 $1.40 $1.39

Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Creature Artifact - Construct Myr

$0.49 $0.38 $0.26

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $2.23 $0.67

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $189.56

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.52Total Mana Value: 225.00

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Protection

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Tutor

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Avg Mana Value: 3.52Total Mana Value: 225.00

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