Commander 1
Creatures 16
Planeswalkers 1
Instants 12
Sorceries 17
Artifacts 11
Enchantments 5
Lands 37
Strategy notes
Nightmare Mill Heist is a Dimir (blue-black) Commander mill/reanimator-control deck built around Captain N’ghathrod. Its main plan is to fill opponents’ graveyards by milling them, then steal or reanimate their best creatures and permanents for value.
Key synergies include:
- Mill engines: Ruin Crab, Hedron Crab, Mesmeric Orb, Court of Cunning, Fractured Sanity, Maddening Cacophony, Mind Funeral, Fleet Swallower, Nemesis of Reason
- Payoffs for milling: Captain N’ghathrod, Consuming Aberration, Extract from Darkness, Geth, Lord of the Vault, Sepulchral Primordial, Diluvian Primordial
- Control/survival tools: sweepers and interaction like Toxic Deluge, Languish, Crux of Fate, Counterspell, Reality Shift
- Alternate self-mill combo win: Leveler / Paradigm Shift / Mirror-Mad Phantasm plus Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries to win by emptying your
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