MTG Salvation

Pretty standard EDH Mill deck.



This is kind of budgety, so there are some strong obvious cards that aren't in.

Cards I want to add: Eater of the Dead, Umbral Mantle, Jace, Memory Adept.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

I'm a huge fan of Puppeteer Clique in decks that dump cards into opponents' GYs (especially with your Life's Finale).

Looks interesting so far. I've got a whole bunch of recommendations for you, though. I consider Intruder Alarm[ and Thousand-Year Elixir to be more or less essential to a Phenax deck. I saw you're looking at Eater of the Dead. He's a ridiculously powerful win condition, and another auto-include in my book. I'd also like to recommend Surgespanner, Siren of the Silent Song, King Macar, the Gold-Cursed, and Disciple of Deceit for some great utilities that synergize with Phenax. I'd also recommend Sheoldred, Whispering One to help keep the board clear and get your guys back. Sepulchural Primordial is fantastic for accessing milled cards from your opponents. You should have some reliable card draw. Rhsytic Study and Phyrexian Arena are good options, in addition to the two you're considering. I'd also recommend a couple more ways to exile. Crypt Incursion is the one I'd say would be most essential to this deck. It can clear out cards at instant speed, and can net you a TON of life. Beyond that, I'm not sure there's anything you absolutely need. Here's my decklist though. We're running different playstyles, but you might find some useful stuff nonetheless

There's also some stuff you have i'd specifically recommend against. Induce Paranoia isn't all that great of mill in multiplayer EDH, and it's way too expensive for a good counterspell. I'd also recommend against symmetrical draw like Skyscribing and Jace Beleren. As a mill deck, you will sometimes get a lot of hate and some unnecessary hate. You don't want to be giving your opponents more options. I'd also recommend against Mind Funeral and Paranoid Delusions. Both of them do very little in multiplayer EDH, even with the latter having cypher, and there are far better cards you could be running.

That's all I've got. I look forward to seeing what you do with the deck and hearing how it runs. Phenax is a great commander, and I'm betting you'll enjoy him a lot.

I have been playing with a similar Phenax deck, and with Undead Alchemist on the table, adding Akromas Memorial can absolutely break the game open for you, depending on the decks your opponents are playing (those odd low creature count decks can make you sad). After Memorial gives all the zombie tokens haste, you can tap them to immediately mill some more, making more zombies, milling again, making more zombies, ect... any sort of zombie lords or anthems can make it that much more insane.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I have a lot to work with here.

Do you think its worth it to run Leyline of the Void and Planar Void. I don't really see Eldrazi in my meta, so that isn't a concern, but plenty of people dip into the graveyard. These cards might conflict too much with many of the other cards in my deck.

It depends on how serious your need is, and if you're focusing more on self-mill or milling your opponents. If you don't have a serious need and are using your opponents' gys, there's other gy hate you should be using. For my deck at least, running those would mean shutting down almost all of my win-cons (That being said, there are ways to get around these enchantments if an opponent runs them)

The most glaring omission from cloning looks like Rite of Replication

Psychic Spiral may be a good idea to save yourself in a game too.

Cards for your consideration that can help with devotion -

Glen Elendra Liege

Ghastlord of Fugue

Trying to make this deck a bit more functional.



Took out a lot of generic good cards to try to focus a bit more on mill.