How many cards in your hand ? by Pusinka

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis Wheels and Group Slug deck commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary strategy focuses on establishing symmetric draw-punishment permanents on the battlefield and rapidly converting card draw into lethal damage using mass wheel effects. By combining damage triggers from cards like Nekusar, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Underworld Dreams with recurring and one-shot wheels such as Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, and Teferi's Puzzle Box, the deck applies immense table-wide burn. Efficient ramp at 0 to 2 CMC ensures consistent turn-4 deployment of key pieces, while a premier interaction suite featuring free spells like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat protects the engine and disrupts opposing wins. Although gifting opponents fresh cards creates inherent counterplay opportunities, the redundancy of punishers and sheer burst damage allow the deck to close games reliably around turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebony Owl Netsuke
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Price of Knowledge
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Runeflare Trap
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Viseling
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Xander's Lounge