Nekusar - construct by user9572829

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a classic Nekusar, the Mindrazer "group slug" deck built around forcing opponents to draw extra cards and punishing each draw with life loss and discard triggers. The primary game plan is to deploy Nekusar early, follow up with a symmetrical wheel effect (Windfall, Reforge the Soul, Echo of Eons), and accumulate rapid damage from a dense suite of punishers such as Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, Orcish Bowmasters, Spiteful Visions, and Razorkin Needlehead. Discard punishment from Megrim, Liliana's Caress, and Waste Not adds an additional axis of attrition. The deck also packs stax-lite elements (Smoke, Propaganda, Teferi's Puzzle Box) to slow opponents while the pain racket ticks up. Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph and Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might amplify small pings into serious threats. The combination of forced draw, wheels, and punitive enchantments creates a consistent, if linear, path to draining three opponents simultaneously.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Xander's Lounge