Phenax Mill

by tinytone on 28 September 2021

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Deck Description

This is a blue/black mill deck, popular when Return to Ravnica came out, with several mill strategies:

Angle 1:
- Play creatures with high toughness (Wall of Frost, Hover Barrier, Murmuring Phantasm).
- Play Phenax, God of Deception which now gives all creatures the ability to be able to mill.
- Tap all your high toughness creatures and mill your opponent .

Angle 2:
- Jace, Memory Adept - he can mill 10 cards a turn on his own.

Angle 3:
- Jace, Memory Adept.
- Duskmantle Guildmage.
- Activate the Duskmantle Guildmage's ability (twice if you have 6 mana)
- Then activate Jace's "mill 10 cards" ability, and kill your opponent as you do 20 points of damage (10 x 2 dmg).

How to Play

Turn 1:
- Play a land

Turn 2:
- Murmuring Phantasm

Turn 3:
- Wall of Frost

Turn 4:
- Murmuring Phantasm
- Baleful Strix

Turn 5:
- Phenax, God of Description
- Tap Murmuring Phantasm (5 x 2), Wall of Frost (7) and mill your opponent for 17!

Turn 6:
- Tap Murmuring Phantasm (5 x 2), Wall of Frost (7), Phenax (7) and mill your opponent for 24!
- Play Jace, Memory Adept and mill another 10 cards with his 0 ability.

Turn 7:
- Repeat the above process - you should be close to winning now.

Deck Tags

  • Dimir
  • Mill

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

0412000

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Phenax Mill

Consider adding 1 or two fathoms feeder, it's pretty close to the design of carefull strix, but it can potentially draw more cards.
Also, against combo it can actually eat the combo away with some luck as it has ingest. (And sort of mills)

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Posted 28 September 2021 at 19:34

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Posted 28 September 2021 at 20:20

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