Lord xander by DollarsignBenny

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis Wheels and Group Slug deck commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary strategy focuses on deploying passive draw- and discard-punishment permanents, then casting symmetric wheel sorceries like Windfall and Reforge the Soul to deal massive chunks of damage to all opponents at once. With cards like Underworld Dreams, Liliana's Caress, and Waste Not, each wheel strips opposing hands, damages life totals, and generates surplus mana and tokens. The deck also features game-ending combos such as Duskmantle Guildmage plus Mindcrank, and a devastating lockout synergy in Notion Thief combined with wheels. While the deck's clock is fast and hits all three opponents simultaneously, giving opponents seven new cards off each wheel requires careful timing and stack protection through tools like Conqueror's Flail and efficient countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler