Ion Storm gives you a nice mana sink, and very strong threat of activation. Ramp to the moon, and scare opponents away from playing spells.

If you go with more of a sacrifice theme The Ozolith can start stacking up an absurd amount of counterts.

Manabound Millipede
Land
Manabound Millipede counts as an 1/1 insect while it is in your library as long as you control 4 or more lands.
Manabound Millipede enters the battlefield tapped unless you control 4 or more lands.
Tap add G to your mana pool.

Thoughts on The One Ring for this deck? You had mentioned it in passing -- I also wanted to see if you had given any more thought to the battles.

Kelsier, Cognitive Shadow {1}{U}{B} Legendary Planeswalker-Kelsier Opponents play with their hands revealed. +1 Fateseal 1 -1 Up to two creatures cannot attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn. -3 Choose target card in an opponent's hand. Until your next turn, they may not cast ...

Curious if you intentionally are avoiding infinite ventures @yeti1069?

Cards like Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward with the Animate Dead / Necromancy / Dance of the Dead package.

Chandra, Soul Burner 3BB Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra (M) +1: Chandra, Soul Burner deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life. -3: Exile the top card of your library. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may play that card this turn without paying its mana cost. -8...

Oh wow!! Yay!! Juancu — I really love this concept. That is VERY cool. Gideon, Exhumed 1BB Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon You may play Gideon, Exhumed from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else. +0: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 3/2 Zombie Soldier with Menace. +1: All creatures get -1/-1...

At its best finding Norin the Wary for my friend's secret Norin deck.

Hall of Radiance
Tap 3 untapped basic plains you control: add

Note: no inherent ability to generate its own mana.

IIW: Colorshift a planeswalker

Sky Koi
Flying
When Sky Koi enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 copy of Sky Koi, except it loses this ability.
: Populate
1/3

IIW An actually good mill commander

Ophiomancer supplies you with a steady stream of snakes.

Alliteration very intended.

Liquimetal Torque could be used to turn Lobelia Sackville-Baggins into an artifact, so she can self sacrifice and pair with all your Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire effects.

Rustmoths
Flying
When Rustmoths enter the battlefield, tap each artifact you don't control, and those artifacts do not untap during their controller's next untap step.
1/3

IIW: Cycling Payoff

I have a background deck with Popular Entertainer — I like having a splash of goad, versus all goad all the time like Marisi, Breaker of the Coil. Vengeful Ancestor is pretty sweet, as is Firkraag, Cunning Instigator.

I've goldfished a good bit — this deck is too damn slow if it isn't running Zur the Enchanter . I don't plan to lean into it much more than I already have - basically just going to add Borrowed Time and Grasp of Fate for a couple sweepers. There is nothing worse than a deck not doing its thing - if ...

In a 3 player game, you might actually be served by the opposite end of the spectrum in your partner choice — Akroma, Vision of Ixidor is the one that jumps out to me. After all, this deck is almost never not going to have a 2 drop, and we are already keyword soup tribal. Alternatively, you could go...

I did a mock hand with the second deck - Prismatic Vista , Windswept Heath , Plains , Mind Stone , Dauthi Voidwalker , and Cosmic Intervention - with Marsh Flats and Castle Locthwain on top. Soooo… Turn 1 Windswept Heath for Godless Shrine . Turn 2 Castle Locthwain [/card] and Mind Stone Turn 3 Verr...

What is commander whackamole? I'm guessing that it means commanders just die immediately, and you want the ward / etb for resilience? List looks great — a little annoyed that you didn't steer me more in this direction when I was building my own list… I can attest to the idea's strength though for su...

Does Mike "get" the game well enough to activate Purph on the previous end step?

That's good - I was completely baffled by the wording. Sounds like you have way more control over what you get.

How do you typically go about proactive (pillowfort) protection and reactive? I haven't really ever run the pillowfort style?

Made some edits based on both your advice — I think the card pool is looking better now, and it's probably time to think about curve.

Saruman of Many Colors I had not seen. He's at least mill themed, even if he's odd. Am I reading correctly that he can possibly 3 for 1— or whiff entirely?

Thanks for the feedback ISBPathfinder! The friend I'm building this for had a few requests, and the commander choice was one that I was ignoring — he wanted something old-school non-threatening in the original spirit of the format. So I may just swap out Zur for Chromium . In regards to single threa...

Yes, I'm making another Esper deck, but this time it's for a friend so it doesn't count… Inspiration here is drawn from ISBPathfinder 's Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition deck, in that I want a mill engine, without dying. Commander 1 Zur, the Enchanter Creatures 1 Dennick, Pious...

I gave away my Henzie "Toolbox" Torre deck to a friend that has since moved away. Heartless Summoning always did work whenever it showed up, and I loved playing Kokusho, the Evening Star for the nostalgia.

I built this deck a while back and still have it together:

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If you get going on this, I'd love feedback on my list.