Nekusar by user7265606

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis wheel and group-slug archetype commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary strategy focuses on deploying damage-dealing punishers that trigger whenever opponents draw or discard cards, then casting mass wheel spells to deal explosive, table-wide life loss. The deck features exceptional functional redundancy, running numerous interchangeable punishers such as Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Liliana's Caress, alongside over a dozen wheel variants like Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, and Dark Deal. Mana ramp and color fixing establish the core engine by turn 4, enabling a critical onset wheel on turn 5. While wheels simultaneously provide opponents with fresh resources, efficient countermagic and defensive staples like Deflecting Swat, Swan Song, and Propaganda protect the board state. The deck steadily burns the entire table down over two response cycles, closing games around turn 7 through inevitable non-combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fevered Visions
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 10 Island
  • 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 Megrim
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge