DrawOut by user1860555

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Nekusar, the Mindrazer wheels and group slug strategy that converts symmetric card draw into asymmetric table-wide burn. The primary engine establishes mana acceleration across the opening turns to deploy Nekusar by Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, the deck leverages mass draw effects and wheel cards such as Memory Jar, Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune, and Magus of the Wheel to deal rapid bursts of 7 to 14 damage per player. To complement this burn clock, the deck deploys a dense network of disruptive stax and punisher permanents including Mana Breach, Lethal Vapors, Tainted Aether, Spellshock, and Smoke, constraining opponents' mana bases, restricting creature attacks, and taxing spell casts. A secondary win condition exists in the two-card combo of Niv-Mizzet, Parun and Curiosity. While the deck possesses immense damage velocity, it feeds opponents cards and runs minimal dedicated protection, demanding deliberate timing when resolving wheels.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breathstealer's Crypt
  • 1 Caltrops
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Cerebral Vortex
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dream Fracture
  • 1 Dream Tides
  • 1 Ember Island Production
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Flux
  • 1 Hissing Miasma
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Howling Golem
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Intervene
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Lethal Vapors
  • 1 Leyline of Punishment
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Breach
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Obelisk of Grixis
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rain of Gore
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Red Death, Shipwrecker
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Sphere of Resistance
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Aether
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Words of Wind
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad