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so after seeing Zanpeki's Mill deck, I wanted to make a variant of it. Here's his deck. http://www.mtgvault.com/zanpenki/decks/phenax-the-milling-lord/

edit: I took out triton tactics in favor of devour flesh. I've tested it, and early game it works agaisnt aggro and the caraytid effectively, and late game I can sac my own creature to make sure I stabalize long enough to mill or damage them for the win.

This deck works one of two ways'with the same mechanic: You can either attack or defend depending on the opponents play style.

Within the first 2-3 turns, you should try to attempt quick milling and bringing out one creature, using tome scour or breaking to get a good chunk of their cards in their graveyard; if you're lucky, You'll have 10-13 cards in their graveyard. if the deck is creature based, this should easily make the wight or howler a 5/5 or higher.

from then on your win con depends on what you draw and what your opponents playstyle is; phenax combos really well with the graveyard abilities as they continuously get stronger without any more mana investment, resulting in milling your opponent out within 2-3 turns. If you keep getting the mill cards, or abberation, you can continue to attack, since one hit likely results in death.

Cards out of place
Wall of frost-it's a nice wall for stall, but does nothing agaisn't slower decks.
Triton Tactics-While the combo with phenax is the original use, I've never used it because I can mill them out without the tactics. I may replace this with a counterspell instead or kill spell instead.

• Casual
• Standard
• Dimir
• Mill