Nekusar by KlarkSoper

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Group Slug and Wheel strategy commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary objective is to accelerate mana during the early turns, deploy Nekusar, the Mindrazer or redundant draw-punishers such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and then resolve symmetrical wheel effects like Windfall, Dark Deal, and Whispering Madness. Each wheel chunks opposing life totals by dealing 7 or more damage per opponent while simultaneously disrupting opposing hands. Damage multipliers including Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Fiery Emancipation quickly scale this burn output into lethal range. Secondary value engines like Waste Not and Tergrid, God of Fright capitalize on mass discards to generate overwhelming board states and mana. While wheels give opponents access to fresh cards, the sheer volume of unavoidable noncombat damage generally closes the game across two turn rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Immortus, Master of Eternity
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Sycorax Commander
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wizard's Staff