Art by Ryan Barger
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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Most Played With Phenax, God of Deception (191)
Sol Ring
88% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
80% of decks · $0.49
Dimir Signet
60% of decks · $0.30
Duskmantle Guildmage
55% of decks · $0.74
Wight of Precinct Six
54% of decks · $0.32
The Water Crystal
53% of decks · $4.45
Singularity Rupture
52% of decks · $1.89
Cruel Somnophage
52% of decks
Talisman of Dominance
52% of decks · $0.44
Traumatize
51% of decks · $4.05
Syr Konrad, the Grim
50% of decks · $1.78
Nighthowler
50% of decks · $0.33
Mind Grind
49% of decks · $3.07
The Ancient One
48% of decks · $1.63
Psychic Corrosion
47% of decks · $4.70
Fraying Sanity
46% of decks · $0.86
Propaganda
44% of decks · $2.22
Hedron Crab
43% of decks · $3.48
Visions of Beyond
43% of decks · $4.42
Memory Erosion
42% of decks · $9.42
Mortivore
42% of decks · $0.44
Dramatic Reversal
40% of decks · $0.38
The Mindskinner
39% of decks · $3.43
Thousand-Year Elixir
37% of decks · $18.13
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
37% of decks · $3.98
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
36% of decks · $24.00
Mesmeric Orb
35% of decks · $18.03
Fleet Swallower
34% of decks · $1.23
Didn't Say Please
33% of decks · $0.31
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
32% of decks · $25.51
Sire of Stagnation
32% of decks · $1.81
Sphinx's Tutelage
32% of decks · $2.03
Nemesis of Reason
32% of decks · $3.12
Silent Arbiter
32% of decks · $10.68
Court of Cunning
32% of decks · $4.14
Bonehoard
31% of decks · $0.87
Glimpse the Unthinkable
31% of decks · $3.54
Sewer Nemesis
31% of decks · $1.41
Thought Collapse
30% of decks · $0.35
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
30% of decks · $0.39
Unstoppable Plan
29% of decks · $2.38
Lightning Greaves
29% of decks · $4.00
Cut Your Losses
29% of decks · $1.64
Rhystic Study
29% of decks · $69.59
Altar of the Brood
28% of decks · $10.00
Mind Stone
28% of decks
Bloodchief Ascension
28% of decks · $21.38
Windfall
28% of decks · $6.02
Riverchurn Monument
28% of decks · $1.53
Negate
28% of decks · $0.24
Psychic Strike
27% of decks · $0.30
Cyclonic Rift
27% of decks · $39.16
Thought Vessel
27% of decks
Fellwar Stone
26% of decks
Mind Funeral
26% of decks · $1.33
Dark Ritual
25% of decks · $7.19
Terisian Mindbreaker
25% of decks · $1.10
Toxic Deluge
25% of decks · $5.17
Intruder Alarm
25% of decks · $5.75
Archive Trap
24% of decks · $1.82
Ashiok, Dream Render
24% of decks · $1.36
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
24% of decks · $0.69
Brainstorm
24% of decks · $0.57
Jace, Memory Adept
23% of decks · $3.82
Rise of the Dark Realms
23% of decks · $6.49
Wall of Lost Thoughts
23% of decks · $0.22
Reanimate
22% of decks · $10.11
Breach the Multiverse
22% of decks · $11.31
Jace's Phantasm
22% of decks · $0.35
Ioreth of the Healing House
21% of decks · $0.34
Commander's Sphere
21% of decks · $0.34
Manic Scribe
21% of decks · $0.32
Demonic Tutor
21% of decks · $69.17
Phyrexian Arena
21% of decks · $4.26
Arcane Denial
21% of decks · $2.03
Fog Bank
20% of decks · $0.19
Feed the Swarm
20% of decks · $0.24
An Offer You Can't Refuse
19% of decks · $3.16
Undead Alchemist
19% of decks · $0.73
Mana Drain
19% of decks · $56.89
Thought Scour
19% of decks · $0.61
Freed from the Real
19% of decks · $7.98
Guiltfeeder
18% of decks · $1.40
Keening Stone
18% of decks · $0.40
Drown in Dreams
17% of decks · $1.30
Grisly Spectacle
17% of decks · $0.13
Damnation
17% of decks · $21.01
Crypt Incursion
17% of decks · $0.34
Crashing Drawbridge
17% of decks · $1.10
Aegis Turtle
17% of decks · $0.13
Into the Story
17% of decks · $0.32
Extract from Darkness
16% of decks · $0.31
Mystic Remora
16% of decks · $15.08
Aetherize
16% of decks · $0.49
Deepmuck Desperado
15% of decks · $0.25
Swiftfoot Boots
15% of decks
The Haunt of Hightower
15% of decks · $1.72
Notion Thief
15% of decks · $1.52
Captain N'ghathrod
15% of decks · $12.95
Teferi's Tutelage
15% of decks · $0.33
Riddlekeeper
15% of decks · $11.65
Jace, the Perfected Mind
15% of decks · $2.79
Dreamborn Muse
15% of decks · $3.20
Soulless Jailer
14% of decks · $1.68
Swan Song
14% of decks · $10.60
Vampiric Tutor
14% of decks · $54.45
Avatar of Woe
14% of decks · $6.65
Grindstone
13% of decks
Unhallowed Phalanx
13% of decks · $0.24
Kitsune's Technique
13% of decks · $0.63
Fierce Guardianship
13% of decks · $63.65
Mystical Tutor
13% of decks · $19.16
Pilfered Plans
13% of decks · $0.23
Dauthi Voidwalker
13% of decks · $5.80
Doomsday Excruciator
12% of decks · $1.48
Diabolic Tutor
12% of decks · $2.21
Merfolk Secretkeeper
12% of decks
Pemmin's Aura
11% of decks · $10.28
Pongify
11% of decks · $3.12
Sapphire Medallion
11% of decks · $8.55
Patient Rebuilding
11% of decks · $0.57
Ponder
11% of decks · $3.58
Wayfarer's Bauble
11% of decks · $5.61
Animate Dead
11% of decks · $7.00
Deadly Rollick
11% of decks · $28.68
Drift of Phantasms
11% of decks · $0.23
Treasure Cruise
10% of decks · $0.34
Withering Torment
10% of decks · $1.58
Midnight Clock
10% of decks · $0.57
Baleful Strix
10% of decks · $6.67
Disciple of Deceit
10% of decks · $0.21
Wrexial, the Risen Deep
9% of decks · $2.15
Leyline of the Void
9% of decks · $0.72
Memory Plunder
9% of decks · $1.40
Whispering Madness
9% of decks · $3.71
Fell the Profane
9% of decks
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
9% of decks · $0.83
Sink into Stupor
9% of decks
Go for the Throat
9% of decks · $0.62
No Mercy
9% of decks · $24.61
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
9% of decks · $11.04
Increasing Confusion
9% of decks · $0.93
Reality Shift
9% of decks · $0.35
Altar of Dementia
9% of decks · $17.25
Isochron Scepter
9% of decks · $12.71
Waterlogged Teachings
9% of decks
Rapid Hybridization
9% of decks · $0.78
Perplex
8% of decks · $1.68
Infernal Grasp
8% of decks · $0.33
Consecrated Sphinx
8% of decks · $32.80
Dimir Doppelganger
8% of decks · $0.57
Jace's Archivist
8% of decks · $7.85
Mirelurk Queen
8% of decks · $2.12
Scheming Symmetry
8% of decks · $8.65
Exhibition Tidecaller
8% of decks · $0.44
Profane Memento
8% of decks · $1.21
Preordain
8% of decks · $0.87
Sky Diamond
8% of decks · $0.25
Force of Will
8% of decks · $59.96
Muddle the Mixture
8% of decks · $2.76
Sting, the Glinting Dagger
7% of decks · $3.17
Black Market Connections
7% of decks · $10.47
Tormod's Crypt
7% of decks · $0.55
Folio of Fancies
7% of decks · $2.78
Altar of the Pantheon
7% of decks · $0.26
Psychic Spiral
7% of decks · $0.26
Mind Sculpt
7% of decks · $0.24
Dimir Locket
7% of decks · $0.18
Illusionist's Bracers
7% of decks · $6.63
Charcoal Diamond
7% of decks · $0.35
Jace Beleren
7% of decks · $2.54
Drowned Secrets
7% of decks · $0.62
Sign in Blood
7% of decks · $2.74
Solemn Simulacrum
7% of decks · $0.34
Startled Awake
6% of decks
Grim Tutor
6% of decks · $23.87
Fact or Fiction
6% of decks · $0.25
Murder
6% of decks · $0.18
Nuclear Fallout
6% of decks · $3.15
Jace's Erasure
6% of decks · $0.26
Dimir Cluestone
6% of decks · $0.18
Thran Dynamo
6% of decks · $4.43
Read the Bones
6% of decks · $0.29
Force of Negation
6% of decks · $50.63
Jet Medallion
6% of decks · $14.56
Doom Blade
5% of decks · $0.24
Frantic Search
5% of decks · $2.13
Tome Scour
5% of decks · $0.22
Nihil Spellbomb
5% of decks · $2.68
Night's Whisper
5% of decks · $6.25
Slagwurm Armor
5% of decks
New Cards
The Master of Lake-town
21% of decks · $0.51
Cruel Calculations
17% of decks · $0.36
Elrond, Moon-Reader
5% of decks · $1.71
Turbulent Wetlands
5% of decks · $3.47
The Weaver King
2% of decks
Creatures (50)
Duskmantle Guildmage
55% of decks · $0.74
Wight of Precinct Six
54% of decks · $0.32
Cruel Somnophage
52% of decks
Syr Konrad, the Grim
50% of decks · $1.78
Nighthowler
50% of decks · $0.33
The Ancient One
48% of decks · $1.63
Hedron Crab
43% of decks · $3.48
Mortivore
42% of decks · $0.44
The Mindskinner
39% of decks · $3.43
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
36% of decks · $24.00
Fleet Swallower
34% of decks · $1.23
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
32% of decks · $25.51
Sire of Stagnation
32% of decks · $1.81
Nemesis of Reason
32% of decks · $3.12
Silent Arbiter
32% of decks · $10.68
Sewer Nemesis
31% of decks · $1.41
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
30% of decks · $0.39
Terisian Mindbreaker
25% of decks · $1.10
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
24% of decks · $0.69
Wall of Lost Thoughts
23% of decks · $0.22
Jace's Phantasm
22% of decks · $0.35
Ioreth of the Healing House
21% of decks · $0.34
Manic Scribe
21% of decks · $0.32
Fog Bank
20% of decks · $0.19
Undead Alchemist
19% of decks · $0.73
Guiltfeeder
18% of decks · $1.40
Crashing Drawbridge
17% of decks · $1.10
Aegis Turtle
17% of decks · $0.13
Deepmuck Desperado
15% of decks · $0.25
The Haunt of Hightower
15% of decks · $1.72
Notion Thief
15% of decks · $1.52
Captain N'ghathrod
15% of decks · $12.95
Riddlekeeper
15% of decks · $11.65
Dreamborn Muse
15% of decks · $3.20
Soulless Jailer
14% of decks · $1.68
Avatar of Woe
14% of decks · $6.65
Unhallowed Phalanx
13% of decks · $0.24
Dauthi Voidwalker
13% of decks · $5.80
Doomsday Excruciator
12% of decks · $1.48
Merfolk Secretkeeper
12% of decks
Drift of Phantasms
11% of decks · $0.23
Baleful Strix
10% of decks · $6.67
Disciple of Deceit
10% of decks · $0.21
Wrexial, the Risen Deep
9% of decks · $2.15
Consecrated Sphinx
8% of decks · $32.80
Dimir Doppelganger
8% of decks · $0.57
Jace's Archivist
8% of decks · $7.85
Mirelurk Queen
8% of decks · $2.12
Exhibition Tidecaller
8% of decks · $0.44
Solemn Simulacrum
7% of decks · $0.34
Instants (44)
Visions of Beyond
43% of decks · $4.42
Dramatic Reversal
40% of decks · $0.38
Didn't Say Please
33% of decks · $0.31
Thought Collapse
30% of decks · $0.35
Negate
28% of decks · $0.24
Psychic Strike
27% of decks · $0.30
Cyclonic Rift
27% of decks · $39.16
Dark Ritual
25% of decks · $7.19
Archive Trap
24% of decks · $1.82
Brainstorm
24% of decks · $0.57
Arcane Denial
21% of decks · $2.03
An Offer You Can't Refuse
19% of decks · $3.16
Mana Drain
19% of decks · $56.89
Thought Scour
19% of decks · $0.61
Drown in Dreams
17% of decks · $1.30
Grisly Spectacle
17% of decks · $0.13
Crypt Incursion
17% of decks · $0.34
Into the Story
17% of decks · $0.32
Aetherize
16% of decks · $0.49
Swan Song
14% of decks · $10.60
Vampiric Tutor
14% of decks · $54.45
Kitsune's Technique
13% of decks · $0.63
Fierce Guardianship
13% of decks · $63.65
Mystical Tutor
13% of decks · $19.16
Pongify
11% of decks · $3.12
Deadly Rollick
11% of decks · $28.68
Withering Torment
10% of decks · $1.58
Memory Plunder
9% of decks · $1.40
Fell the Profane
9% of decks
Sink into Stupor
9% of decks
Go for the Throat
9% of decks · $0.62
Reality Shift
9% of decks · $0.35
Waterlogged Teachings
9% of decks
Rapid Hybridization
9% of decks · $0.78
Perplex
8% of decks · $1.68
Infernal Grasp
8% of decks · $0.33
Force of Will
8% of decks · $59.96
Muddle the Mixture
8% of decks · $2.76
Psychic Spiral
7% of decks · $0.26
Fact or Fiction
6% of decks · $0.25
Murder
6% of decks · $0.18
Force of Negation
6% of decks · $50.63
Doom Blade
5% of decks · $0.24
Frantic Search
5% of decks · $2.13
Sorceries (32)
Singularity Rupture
52% of decks · $1.89
Traumatize
51% of decks · $4.05
Mind Grind
49% of decks · $3.07
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
37% of decks · $3.98
Glimpse the Unthinkable
31% of decks · $3.54
Cut Your Losses
29% of decks · $1.64
Windfall
28% of decks · $6.02
Mind Funeral
26% of decks · $1.33
Toxic Deluge
25% of decks · $5.17
Rise of the Dark Realms
23% of decks · $6.49
Reanimate
22% of decks · $10.11
Breach the Multiverse
22% of decks · $11.31
Demonic Tutor
21% of decks · $69.17
Feed the Swarm
20% of decks · $0.24
Damnation
17% of decks · $21.01
Extract from Darkness
16% of decks · $0.31
Pilfered Plans
13% of decks · $0.23
Diabolic Tutor
12% of decks · $2.21
Ponder
11% of decks · $3.58
Treasure Cruise
10% of decks · $0.34
Whispering Madness
9% of decks · $3.71
Increasing Confusion
9% of decks · $0.93
Scheming Symmetry
8% of decks · $8.65
Preordain
8% of decks · $0.87
Mind Sculpt
7% of decks · $0.24
Sign in Blood
7% of decks · $2.74
Startled Awake
6% of decks
Grim Tutor
6% of decks · $23.87
Nuclear Fallout
6% of decks · $3.15
Read the Bones
6% of decks · $0.29
Tome Scour
5% of decks · $0.22
Night's Whisper
5% of decks · $6.25
Utility Artifacts (23)
The Water Crystal
53% of decks · $4.45
Thousand-Year Elixir
37% of decks · $18.13
Mesmeric Orb
35% of decks · $18.03
Bonehoard
31% of decks · $0.87
Lightning Greaves
29% of decks · $4.00
Altar of the Brood
28% of decks · $10.00
Riverchurn Monument
28% of decks · $1.53
Keening Stone
18% of decks · $0.40
Swiftfoot Boots
15% of decks
Grindstone
13% of decks
Sapphire Medallion
11% of decks · $8.55
Wayfarer's Bauble
11% of decks · $5.61
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
9% of decks · $0.83
Altar of Dementia
9% of decks · $17.25
Isochron Scepter
9% of decks · $12.71
Profane Memento
8% of decks · $1.21
Sting, the Glinting Dagger
7% of decks · $3.17
Tormod's Crypt
7% of decks · $0.55
Folio of Fancies
7% of decks · $2.78
Illusionist's Bracers
7% of decks · $6.63
Jet Medallion
6% of decks · $14.56
Nihil Spellbomb
5% of decks · $2.68
Slagwurm Armor
5% of decks
Mana Artifacts (15)
Sol Ring
88% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
80% of decks · $0.49
Dimir Signet
60% of decks · $0.30
Talisman of Dominance
52% of decks · $0.44
Mind Stone
28% of decks
Thought Vessel
27% of decks
Fellwar Stone
26% of decks
Commander's Sphere
21% of decks · $0.34
Midnight Clock
10% of decks · $0.57
Sky Diamond
8% of decks · $0.25
Altar of the Pantheon
7% of decks · $0.26
Dimir Locket
7% of decks · $0.18
Charcoal Diamond
7% of decks · $0.35
Dimir Cluestone
6% of decks · $0.18
Thran Dynamo
6% of decks · $4.43
Enchantments (22)
Psychic Corrosion
47% of decks · $4.70
Fraying Sanity
46% of decks · $0.86
Propaganda
44% of decks · $2.22
Memory Erosion
42% of decks · $9.42
Sphinx's Tutelage
32% of decks · $2.03
Court of Cunning
32% of decks · $4.14
Unstoppable Plan
29% of decks · $2.38
Rhystic Study
29% of decks · $69.59
Bloodchief Ascension
28% of decks · $21.38
Intruder Alarm
25% of decks · $5.75
Phyrexian Arena
21% of decks · $4.26
Freed from the Real
19% of decks · $7.98
Mystic Remora
16% of decks · $15.08
Teferi's Tutelage
15% of decks · $0.33
Pemmin's Aura
11% of decks · $10.28
Patient Rebuilding
11% of decks · $0.57
Animate Dead
11% of decks · $7.00
Leyline of the Void
9% of decks · $0.72
No Mercy
9% of decks · $24.61
Black Market Connections
7% of decks · $10.47
Drowned Secrets
7% of decks · $0.62
Jace's Erasure
6% of decks · $0.26
Planeswalkers (5)
Ashiok, Dream Render
24% of decks · $1.36
Jace, Memory Adept
23% of decks · $3.82
Jace, the Perfected Mind
15% of decks · $2.79
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
9% of decks · $11.04
Jace Beleren
7% of decks · $2.54
Utility Lands (20)
Bojuka Bog
47% of decks
Nephalia Drownyard
38% of decks
Reliquary Tower
36% of decks
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
30% of decks
Mystic Sanctuary
22% of decks
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
21% of decks
Restless Reef
16% of decks
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
15% of decks
Otawara, Soaring City
14% of decks
Scavenger Grounds
12% of decks
Temple of the False God
11% of decks
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
11% of decks
Rogue's Passage
11% of decks
Cabal Coffers
10% of decks
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
9% of decks
Mortuary Mire
8% of decks
Ancient Tomb
7% of decks
Halimar Depths
7% of decks
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
6% of decks
Creeping Tar Pit
6% of decks
Lands (47)
Island
96% of decks
Swamp
96% of decks
Command Tower
83% of decks
Sunken Hollow
63% of decks
Drowned Catacomb
61% of decks
Watery Grave
52% of decks
Dimir Aqueduct
44% of decks
Choked Estuary
43% of decks
Shipwreck Marsh
43% of decks
Temple of Deceit
39% of decks
Darkwater Catacombs
38% of decks
Tainted Isle
38% of decks
Underground River
36% of decks
Morphic Pool
35% of decks
Polluted Delta
32% of decks
Clearwater Pathway
26% of decks
Evolving Wilds
25% of decks
Gloomlake Verge
25% of decks
Dismal Backwater
23% of decks
Exotic Orchard
22% of decks
Sunken Ruins
20% of decks
Terramorphic Expanse
18% of decks
Myriad Landscape
17% of decks
Fetid Pools
16% of decks
Undercity Sewers
16% of decks
Darkslick Shores
15% of decks
Dimir Guildgate
13% of decks
Underground Sea
13% of decks
Fabled Passage
11% of decks
Jwar Isle Refuge
11% of decks
Fell the Profane
9% of decks
Sink into Stupor
9% of decks
Waterlogged Teachings
9% of decks
Reflecting Pool
8% of decks
River of Tears
8% of decks
Submerged Boneyard
7% of decks
Hidden Lair
7% of decks
Prismatic Vista
7% of decks
Flooded Strand
6% of decks
Contaminated Aquifer
6% of decks
Misty Rainforest
6% of decks
Hydroelectric Specimen
6% of decks
Ice Tunnel
6% of decks
Scalding Tarn
5% of decks
Bloodstained Mire
5% of decks
Path of Ancestry
5% of decks
Boggart Trawler
5% of decks
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