Nekusar by Angrychicken36

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 76

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Wheel Storm and draw-punishment strategy led by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary game plan accelerates early using high-density fast mana and artifact rocks to deploy symmetrical draw punishers such as Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, and Orcish Bowmasters. Once a damage engine is established, the deck casts mass wheel effects like Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, Dark Deal, and Time Spiral to strip opponents of their sculpted hands while dealing massive, table-wide burn damage. Complementary engines such as Waste Not and Underworld Breach generate the mana and graveyard recursion needed to chain multiple wheels across one to two turns, while Teferi's Puzzle Box locks opponents into devastating draw-step damage cycles. The deck protects its proactive turns with a robust suite of free and efficient counterspells, including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deflecting Swat, while retaining Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation as a compact alternative win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Burning Inquiry
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Echo of Eons
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Forced Fruition
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 9 Island
• 1 Jace's Archivist
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Molten Psyche
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Time Spiral
• 1 Underworld Breach
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Waste Not
• 1 Wheel and Deal
• 1 Wheel of Fortune
• 1 Wheel of Misfortune
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will