Nekusar Deadly Drawing by fpepe1211

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Group Slug and Wheels strategy commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary game plan revolves around deploying symmetrical card-draw engines and damage-on-draw punishers, then converting opponents' hand refills into lethal bursts of direct damage through hand-cycling wheels. Commander access guarantees a core punisher from the command zone, supported by redundant enchantments like Underworld Dreams and Spiteful Visions. While the deck reliably assembles its core pieces by Turn 5 and threatens decisive table-wide damage on Turn 6 via spells like Dark Deal and Whispering Madness, its reliance on creatures and high-mana sorceries leaves notable windows of vulnerability. Symmetrically drawing cards for opponents accelerates their access to answers, making well-timed protection crucial. With a robust 38-land base, functional redundancy across burn and wheel packages, and alternative blowout plays like Peer into the Abyss, the deck steadily grinds down life totals to close out games across two to three response rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Alrund, God of the Cosmos // Hakka, Whispering Raven
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grixis Battlemage
  • 1 Gurgling Anointer
  • 1 Hostile Investigator
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Hypnotic Specter
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Irencrag Pyromancer
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Nightveil Specter
  • 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Obelisk of Grixis
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Price of Knowledge
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rakdos's Return
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Sedraxis Specter
  • 1 Silence the Believers
  • 1 Skyscribing
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Manipulation
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Whispering Madness