nekusar optimi@ed 2 by user9043562

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an aggressive Grixis draw-punisher deck built around Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The core plan is to land Nekusar early, stack damage multipliers such as Underworld Dreams, Razorkin Needlehead, Orcish Bowmasters, and Vivi Ornitier, then force each opponent to draw through wheels like Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, Wheel of Misfortune, Winds of Change, and Time Spiral. Every card drawn becomes a small burn trigger, so a single wheel can deal 7-21 damage to each opponent depending on how many punishers are in play. Secondary paths include a Phyresis infect kill (two wheels put everyone at 10 poison), a Narset, Parter of Veils + wheel hand-strip lock, and graveyard recursion through Kess, Dissident Mage and Underworld Breach. The deck is a tutor-backed control-combo build rather than a pure turbo combo list, with a 2.18 average mana value and a dense interaction suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change