You get a card, and you get a card. Everybody gets a card! by user7589987

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 64

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Wheels strategy led by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary objective is to punish opponents for drawing cards by combining persistent damage sources with mass-draw wheel effects. The deck develops early mana through efficient artifact rocks and rituals on turns 1 to 3, deploying Nekusar, the Mindrazer or redundant punishers like Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse on turn 4. On turn 5, resolving signature wheels such as Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, or Dark Deal deals 7 to 14 damage per player while shredding sculpted hands. Strong mana generators like Waste Not fuel chained wheels, leading to table elimination by turn 6. The list incorporates premier free countermagic including Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Force of Will to protect its game plan, alongside an infinite combo in Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank. It excels at rapid group-drain pressure while maintaining strong interactive resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wound Reflection