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The Yellow king ( Phenax Mill flavoured as insanity/Cosmic horror )
Deck Size: 117
Commander / EDH
Est deck cost: $611.70
Salt sum: 54.63
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Commander

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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 (bng) 152

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Creature

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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 (rvr) 309
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) 49
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
Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.) As Corrupted Shapeshifter enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 222
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 (mb2) 183
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (pmom) 58s
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.

Creature
Hedron Crab (plst) ZEN-47
Jace's Archivist

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

Creature
Jace's Archivist (m12) 59
Merfolk Secretkeeper

Creature
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 284
Nemesis of Reason

Whenever Nemesis of Reason attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Creature
Nemesis of Reason (plst) ARB-28
Oona, Queen of the Fae

Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Creature
Oona, Queen of the Fae (v11) 8
Riddlekeeper

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller mills two cards.

Creature
Riddlekeeper (cmd) 59
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) 295
Sewer Nemesis

As Sewer Nemesis enters, 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 (plst) CM2-75
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, Shadow Kin becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Shadow Kin (mic) 54
Terisian Mindbreaker

Whenever Terisian Mindbreaker 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
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
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92
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
Wall of Frost

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

Creature
Wall of Frost (m11) 79
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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Mill them out

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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
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 (mic) 13
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) 44
Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38
Glimpse the Unthinkable

Target player mills ten cards.

Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (2x2) 378
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) 67
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) 78
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 589
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (brc) 135
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (sld) 287
Mesmeric Orb

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

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (brr) 94
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (nph) 144
Profane Memento

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

Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (plst) TMP-306
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160
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

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Enchantment

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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
Psychic Corrosion

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

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68

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Protection

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Curator's Ward

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent has hexproof. When enchanted permanent leaves the battlefield, if it was historic, draw two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Enchantment
Curator's Ward (dom) 49
Lost in the Maze

Flash When Lost in the Maze enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Enchantment
Lost in the Maze (mkm) 64
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brc) 166

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Boardwipes

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Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Instant
Engulf the Shore (ddt) 5
Nuclear Fallout

Each creature gets twice -X/-X until end of turn. Each player gets X rad counters.

Sorcery
Nuclear Fallout (pip) 47
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 (mh3) 412

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44

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Removal

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Blight Grenade

Destroy target creature. All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Blight Grenade (40k) 31
Domineering Will

Target player gains control of up to three target nonattacking creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They block this turn if able.

Instant
Domineering Will (clb) 719
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 (clb) 842
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Card draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
Blue Sun's Zenith

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

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (sta) 12
Lunar Insight

Draw a card for each different mana value among nonland permanents you control.

Sorcery
Lunar Insight (fdn) 310
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 (ice) 87
Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Obsessive Stitcher: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Obsessive Stitcher (m21) 223
Pilfered Plans

Target player mills two cards. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Pilfered Plans (dgm) 90
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

Sorcery
Preordain (brc) 92
Refocus

Untap target creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Refocus (plst) FRF-47
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (td0) A31
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65
Treasure Cruise

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

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (c16) 101
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
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (plst) USG-111

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Insurance policy

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Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (som) 32
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Planar Void

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

Enchantment
Planar Void (usg) 149
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (plst) C16-94
Recall

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Sorcery
Recall (5ed) 115
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972

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Counter spells

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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 (plst) CMA-30
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mmq) 69
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (plst) WAR-62
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (ogw) 59

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Land

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Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (moc) 394
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
Darkslick Shores

Darkslick Shores enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (2x2) 404
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (m11) 224
Fetid Pools

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

Land
Fetid Pools (otc) 296
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (2xm) 375
Mystic Sanctuary

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

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Nephalia Drownyard

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

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (isd) 245
Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (prm) 83862Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (prm) 83862
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (ths) 225
Undercity Sewers

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

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (me4) 256
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

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