Stepping on Legos by RedemptionN8

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic "group slug" build, helmed by Nekusar, the Mindrazer, centered on the fundamental truth that **in Commander, card draw is a weapon**. Nekusar's static ability (draw on every opponent's draw step, damage on every draw) warps the game around a single axis: every card an opponent draws is a card pointed at their life total. The deck does not attempt to win through a single combo; instead, it layers **draw engines** (Howling Mine, Jace Beleren, Windfall, Fevered Visions, Dictate of Kruphix-style effects) with **punishing enchantments** (Underworld Dreams, Spiteful Visions, Fevered Visions itself) so that the opponent's normal setup step becomes a five-point life-loss, ten-point life-loss, sometimes greater. The deck only needs to (a) survive long enough to land Nekusar, (b) keep up the harassment after he dies. It uses an **extremely redundant draw suite** rather than a thin tutor suite to keep costs down and resilience high. This is a deck that wins by exhausting three opponents at once, not by turning one key.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Colorstorm Stallion
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Deny Entry
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Divert Disaster
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Drill Too Deep
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ether
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Fascination
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Giantfall
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruinous Rampage
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unexpected Request
  • 1 Vana'diel Adventurers
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wizard's Staff