Puzzle Box by Gizzmos

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis 'wheels and group hug pain' strategy commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The plan accelerates into Nekusar or an interchangeable draw-punisher by Turn 4, then unleashes symmetrical wheel effects like Windfall, Reforge the Soul, and Time Spiral on Turn 5 to burn the entire table simultaneously. Symmetrical draw engines like Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, and Teferi's Puzzle Box ensure opponents continuously take passive damage each turn cycle while churning through their decks. The strategy boasts exceptional functional redundancy, with over a dozen wheel variants and numerous backup punishers such as Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Fate Unraveler, and Underworld Dreams. While the deck deals massive noncombat damage and disrupts opponent hands, it remains vulnerable to instant-speed spot removal and countermagic because it runs limited stack protection and repeatedly refills opponents' hands with fresh cards.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ankh of Mishra
• 1 Anvil of Bogardan
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Balor
• 1 Barbed Shocker
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clout of the Dominus
• 1 Coalition Relic
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commit // Memory
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dissipation Field
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadbore
• 1 Dream Devourer
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Echo of Eons
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Folio of Fancies
• 1 Font of Mythos
• 1 Forced Fruition
• 1 Ghirapur Orrery
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Incendiary Command
• 4 Island
• 1 Jace's Archivist
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Magus of the Wheel
• 1 Master of the Feast
• 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1 Minds Aglow
• 1 Molten Psyche
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reforge the Soul
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Sigil of Sleep
• 1 Smoke
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Spiteful Visions
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1 Temple Bell
• 1 Time Reversal
• 1 Time Spiral
• 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
• 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wheel and Deal
• 1 Wheel of Fate
• 1 Whirlpool Warrior
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Wound Reflection
• 1 Xander's Lounge