Nekusar, Draw Punish by forstyrre

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This is a Nekusar, the Mindrazer wheel deck. Its main plan is to accelerate with two-mana rocks, deploy Nekusar, the Mindrazer, add a draw-punisher such as Underworld Dreams or Spiteful Visions, and repeatedly refill every player's hand. Each opponent's cards become damage through the commander and the supporting engines. The deck has many wheels, several redundant punishment effects, and enough interaction to protect some key turns. Its ordinary kill is slower than its strongest opening suggests: assembling the commander, a second damage source, and the first wheel usually takes until turn 7, and three major wheels are needed to kill three players from 40 life. The largest weaknesses are natural access to noncommander pieces, vulnerability to enchantment and creature removal, and the symmetrical card advantage given to opponents before the damage engine is active. Defensive cards such as Propaganda and Crawlspace buy time but do not create a lock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Whirlpool Warrior
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge