Nekusar cEDH by Tharris31

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 92

Deck overview

This Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck is constructed as a competitive Grixis turbo-combo and wheel archetype. Powered by an elite suite of format-ceiling fast mana—including Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, Lotus Petal, Mana Vault, and Dark Ritual—the deck rapidly accelerates mana to establish early card engines and execute compact win conditions. Its primary path to victory leverages Thassa's Oracle combined with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact for a protected, same-turn win as early as Turn 2 to 3. Alternatively, it can pivot into an explosive Underworld Breach storm loop with Brain Freeze and Lion's Eye Diamond, or deploy devastating asymmetric wheel locks with Narset, Parter of Veils and Notion Thief. A deep interaction suite of free counterspells like Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deflecting Swat, along with proactive hatebears like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters, shields its game plan while suffocating opposing strategies. The result is a highly lethal, resilient, and adaptive competitive shell.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 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 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change