Nekusar The draw punisher by user1010810

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Wheels and Group Slug strategy piloted by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. Its primary game plan revolves around accelerating into Nekusar by Turn 4, followed by chaining symmetrical wheel effects like Windfall, Dark Deal, Reforge the Soul, and Whispering Madness. As opponents are forced to draw and discard massive hands, Nekusar and redundant punishers such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Megrim convert card draw into lethal burn. To survive the aggression that feeding opponents 21 cards inevitably provokes, the list incorporates a robust pillowfort and combat manipulation suite featuring Propaganda, Dissipation Field, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Disrupt Decorum. The deck wins by stacking damage multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell and Fiendish Duo onto successive wheels, eliminating the table simultaneously around Turn 7 while keeping opposing boards embroiled in forced combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agitator Ant
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Day's Undoing
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Guard Gomazoa
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Raiders' Wake
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Skyscribing
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Words of Wisdom