Nekusar, the Mindrazer (Average Deck) by GandalfTheBleu

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Nekusar, the Mindrazer is the engine and payoff of this Grixis wheel-and-punish deck. The primary plan is to accelerate Nekusar into play, then chain Wheel of Fortune effects and damage-punishing permanents such as Underworld Dreams, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. Every opponent draw step becomes a source of life loss. Secondary paths lean on discard payoffs (Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Waste Not) and The Locust God as a resilient token/beatdown fallback. There is no hidden commander: the deck is built entirely around Nekusar's draw-trigger damage, though it includes enough redundant punishment and draw effects to function at a slower pace without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Xander's Lounge