Aces High by lennychuck

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis group-slug / wheel deck helmed by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The plan is to force opponents to draw far more cards than they want-via extra-draw engines, wheels, and symmetrical "hug" pieces-then convert every draw into life loss through a dense suite of punishers. Nekusar, the Mindrazer is the premier engine (extra draw plus ping), backed by redundant effects like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, and Spiteful Visions. Primary finishes are stacked draw-damage turns (often off Wheel of Fortune or Windfall) and closed infinite life-drain loops with Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. Tutors and free interaction let the deck protect its combo turn or dig for the missing half of a blood pair, while pillowfort and counters buy the setup time the strategy needs.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baleful Mastery
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Burning Inquiry
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Damnable Pact
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Font of Mythos
• 1 Forced Fruition
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Grixis Panorama
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Howling Mine
• 7 Island
• 1 Jace's Archivist
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
• 1 Maestros Theater
• 1 Magus of the Wheel
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Master of the Feast
• 1 Mindcrank
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1 Nightscape Familiar
• 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scorched Geyser
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Seething Landscape
• 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spider-Punk
• 1 Spiteful Visions
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wheel of Fortune
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Winds of Change