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Phenax, God of Deception

Phenax, God of Deception - Built around Consuming Aberration, Ruin Crab and Charix, the Raging Isle

Phenax, God of Deception · BU · 100 cards · 37 lands

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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 33Instants 15Sorceries 3Artifacts 10Enchantments 1Lands 37
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Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
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."
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Creatures (33)

Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration
Creature — Horror
$0.22
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.
Ruin Crab
Ruin Crab
Creature — Crab
$1.14
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.)
Charix, the Raging Isle
Charix, the Raging Isle
Legendary Creature — Leviathan Crab
$0.45
Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Tree of Perdition
Tree of Perdition
Creature — Plant
$2.83
Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.
Glacial Wall
Glacial Wall
Creature — Wall
$0.29
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Hover Barrier
Hover Barrier
Creature — Illusion Wall
$0.32
Defender, flying
Wall of Junk
Wall of Junk
Artifact Creature — Wall
$0.33
Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
Wall of Frost
Wall of Frost
Creature — Wall
$0.21
Defender Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Creature — Eldrazi Shapeshifter
$0.18
Devoid (This card has no color.) As this creature 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.
Wall of Mist
Wall of Mist
Creature — Wall
$0.13
Defender
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
$0.37
Inspired — Whenever King Macar becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Octopus
$0.32
Wall of Runes
Wall of Runes
Creature — Wall
$0.26
Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Eater of the Dead
Eater of the Dead
Creature — Horror
$0.79
{0}: If this creature is tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and untap this creature.
Duskmantle Guildmage
Duskmantle Guildmage
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.74
{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.
Wight of Precinct Six
Wight of Precinct Six
Creature — Zombie
$0.14
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
$1.18
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Nighthowler
Nighthowler
Enchantment Creature — Horror
$0.23
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.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
The Ancient One
The Ancient One
Legendary Creature — Spirit God
$1.63
Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. {2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.
Hedron Crab
Hedron Crab
Creature — Crab
$3.45
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Mortivore
Mortivore
Creature — Lhurgoyf
$0.3
Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nightmare
$3.02
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.
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
Legendary Artifact Creature — Wall
$24
Defender Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Fleet Swallower
Fleet Swallower
Creature — Fish
$1.23
Whenever this creature attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.
Sire of Stagnation
Sire of Stagnation
Creature — Eldrazi
$1.81
Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.
Ioreth of the Healing House
Ioreth of the Healing House
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
$0.34
{T}: Untap another target permanent. {T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.
Notion Thief
Notion Thief
Creature — Human Rogue
$1.52
Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.
Avatar of Woe
Avatar of Woe
Creature — Avatar
$4.05
If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast. Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Doomsday Excruciator
Doomsday Excruciator
Creature — Demon
$1
Flying When this creature enters, if it was cast, each player exiles all but the bottom six cards of their library face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card.
Consecrated Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
$26.24
Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Jace's Archivist
Jace's Archivist
Creature — Vedalken Wizard
$7.5
{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Mirelurk Queen
Mirelurk Queen
Creature — Crab Mutant
$2.03
Vigilance When this creature enters, target player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Solemn Simulacrum
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Instants (15)

Drown in the Loch
Drown in the Loch
Instant
$1.19
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.
Counterspell
Counterspell
Instant
$1.33
Counter target spell.
Visions of Beyond
Visions of Beyond
Instant
$3.26
Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.
Didn't Say Please
Didn't Say Please
Instant
$0.31
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.
Thought Collapse
Thought Collapse
Instant
$0.24
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.
Negate
Negate
Instant
$0.16
Counter target noncreature spell.
Psychic Strike
Psychic Strike
Instant
$0.3
Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.
Cyclonic Rift
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.1
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.")
Dark Ritual
Dark Ritual
Instant
$0.44
Add {B}{B}{B}.
Arcane Denial
Arcane Denial
Instant
$1.91
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.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Instant
$3.05
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Drown in Dreams
Drown in Dreams
Instant
$1.05
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.
Grisly Spectacle
Grisly Spectacle
Instant
$0.11
Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power.
Into the Story
Into the Story
Instant
$0.22
This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard. Draw four cards.
Aetherize
Aetherize
Instant
$0.26
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Sorceries (3)

Maddening Cacophony
Maddening Cacophony
Sorcery
$6.16
Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Fractured Sanity
Fractured Sanity
Sorcery
$2.36
Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.
Singularity Rupture
Singularity Rupture
Sorcery
$0.53
Destroy all creatures, then any number of target players each mill half their library, rounded down.

Artifacts (10)

Mindcrank
Mindcrank
Artifact
$11.09
Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Wayfarer's Bauble
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.31
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sol Ring
Sol Ring
Artifact
$1.02
{T}: Add {C}{C}.
Arcane Signet
Arcane Signet
Artifact
$0.38
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Dimir Signet
Dimir Signet
Artifact
$0.3
{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.
Talisman of Dominance
Talisman of Dominance
Artifact
$0.44
{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Fellwar Stone
Fellwar Stone
Artifact
$0.57
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Commander's Sphere
Commander's Sphere
Artifact
$0.18
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Sky Diamond
Sky Diamond
Artifact
$0.25
This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.
Altar of the Pantheon
Altar of the Pantheon
Artifact
$0.26
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.

Enchantments (1)

Black Market Connections
Black Market Connections
Enchantment
$10.47
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Lands (37)

Bojuka Bog
Bojuka Bog
Land
$0.99
This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.
Nephalia Drownyard
Nephalia Drownyard
Land
$0.32
{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.
Reliquary Tower
Reliquary Tower
Land
$4.19
You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.
Mystic Sanctuary
Mystic Sanctuary
Land — Island
$1
({T}: Add {U}.) 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.
Restless Reef
Restless Reef
Land
$1.61
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.
Scavenger Grounds
Scavenger Grounds
Land — Desert
$0.27
{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Temple of the False God
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.19
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Legendary Land
$10.68
{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Rogue's Passage
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.29
{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
Land
$0.19
{T}: Add {C}. {U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills a card.
Mortuary Mire
Mortuary Mire
Land
$0.3
This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.
Halimar Depths
Halimar Depths
Land
$0.35
This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.
Creeping Tar Pit
Creeping Tar Pit
Land
$0.34
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.
Command Tower
Command Tower
Land
$0.24
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sunken Hollow
Sunken Hollow
Land — Island Swamp
$0.29
({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Drowned Catacomb
Drowned Catacomb
Land
$0.47
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.
Watery Grave
Watery Grave
Land — Island Swamp
$9.85
({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Dimir Aqueduct
Dimir Aqueduct
Land
$0.25
This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.
Basic lands: 7 Swamp 12 Island
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