Force Draw by VanCortlandt

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Grixis Wheel and Group Slug strategy commanded by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. Its primary game plan turns the fundamental mechanic of card draw into a lethal liability for opponents. During the opening turns, the deck deploys mana rocks and symmetrical card-draw engines like Howling Mine, Dictate of Kruphix, and Fevered Visions. Once Nekusar or complementary punishers such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Razorkin Needlehead are established, the deck transitions into its critical phase by casting massive wheel spells including Windfall, Dark Deal, Whispering Madness, and Reforge the Soul. Each wheel deals substantial burn to all opponents simultaneously while refreshing the pilot's hand to chain subsequent disruption or burn. Win conditions culminate in rapid multi-wheel chains, Molten Psyche bursts, or resolving Peer into the Abyss. While vulnerable to targeted removal and giving opponents extra resources, its dense redundancy ensures persistent pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Burning Inquiry
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dakra Mystic
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Dictate of Kruphix
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dream Fracture
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fevered Visions
• 1 Forced Fruition
• 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Horn of Greed
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Irencrag Pyromancer
• 7 Island
• 1 Jace Beleren
• 1 Jace's Archivist
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Long River's Pull
• 1 Lore Broker
• 1 Magus of the Wheel
• 1 Master of the Feast
• 1 Megrim
• 1 Molten Psyche
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1 Nightscape Familiar
• 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1 Otherworld Atlas
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Prosperity
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Reforge the Soul
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Viseling
• 1 Waste Not
• 1 Well of Ideas
• 1 Whirlpool Warrior
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
• 1 Zenith Chronicler
• 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider