hand size by Dubthestep

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Nekusar, the Mindrazer "pain wheel" build that wins by attrition. The game plan is to force extra draws with Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, Kami of the Crescent Moon, Dictate of Kruphix, and Anvil of Bogardan, then punish every draw with Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Underworld Dreams, Spiteful Visions, and Fate Unraveler. Wheels such as Windfall, Reforge the Soul, and Dark Deal dump everyone's hand and fire the damage triggers in a single burst, while discard payoffs like Megrim, Liliana's Caress, and Waste Not add extra reach. Hand-size artifacts (Black Vise, The Rack, Iron Maiden, Ebony Owl Netsuke) grind opponents who are forced to hold full grips. A pillowfort of Propaganda, No Mercy, and Crawlspace, plus a bounce-heavy interaction suite, keeps the deck alive long enough for the table to burn out. There is no infinite combo; the deck wins through accumulated life loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adamaro, First to Desire
  • 1 Aeon Chronicler
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Amnesia
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awaken the Erstwhile
  • 1 Black Vise
  • 1 Blackmail
  • 1 Blood Clock
  • 1 Capsize
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Churning Eddy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crosis, the Purger
  • 1 Curfew
  • 1 Curse of Obsession
  • 1 Cursed Rack
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Delirium Skeins
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamborn Muse
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Ebony Owl Netsuke
  • 1 Elkin Lair
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jinxed Ring
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Twist
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Paupers' Cage
  • 1 Price of Knowledge
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rackling
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scalding Tongs
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Skullcage
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talon of Pain
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Rack
  • 1 Thumbscrews
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unnerve
  • 1 Viseling
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wheel of Torture
  • 1 Windfall