Nekusar by user4530542

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Nekusar, the Mindrazer is the entire engine: opponents draw extra cards and take 1 damage per draw, while the deck turns that into a kill with mass draw spells. The primary plan is to accelerate out Nekusar, add a damage amplifier such as Ojer Axonil, Solphim, or Fiery Emancipation, then resolve a wheel that makes each opponent draw ten or more cards. Secondary win lines use the independent draw-pingers (Underworld Dreams, Sheoldred, Ob Nixilis, Fate Unraveler, Scrawling Crawler) if the commander is answered. Tutors and counterspells assemble and protect the combo. There is no hidden commander and no combat plan; every decision is about reaching the first lethal wheel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Incendiary Command
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge