Nekusar by user9143636

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Wheel Burn strategy commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary objective is to deploy Nekusar or interchangeable punishers such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, then resolve symmetrical wheel spells like Windfall, Dark Deal, and Whispering Madness. Each wheel inflicts substantial damage across all three opponents simultaneously while constantly disrupting their hand state. Symmetrical draw engines like Howling Mine and Dictate of Kruphix accelerate game tempo, while Waste Not and Tergrid, God of Fright convert opposing discards into massive mana, token, and permanent advantages. Defensive enchantments such as Propaganda and Crawlspace deter crackback attacks from opponents who are fueled by extra cards. The deck steadily grinds down table life totals, closing the game around Turn 8 through chained wheels and inescapable draw step triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Fracture
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Incendiary Command
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Otherworld Atlas
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Sycorax Commander
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Time Reversal
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Whirlpool Warrior
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler