Nekusar Wizard by jml202

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie, Lord of Light

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis wheels-and-Wizards damage deck helmed by Nekusar, the Mindrazer. The primary plan forces opponents to draw far more cards than they want-via wheels, Howling Mine, and Nekusar's own extra-draw trigger-then converts every draw into life loss through Nekusar, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Iron Maiden, and a dense suite of Wizard ping tokens. A parallel combo channel wins on the spot with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind / Niv-Mizzet, Parun plus Curiosity or Ophidian Eye, or by pairing either Niv with Niv-Mizzet, Visionary. Wizard tribal payoffs (Harmonic Prodigy, Kuja, Genome Sorcerer, Vivi Ornitier, City on Fire) multiply noncombat damage into table-wide lethality. The deck plays as a midrange value engine that grinds card advantage, refills via wheels, and closes through stacked draw-punishers rather than combat.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Echoes
  • 1 Astrologian's Planisphere
  • 1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Eddie, Lord of Light
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Patron Wizard
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Red Mage's Rapier
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rockslide Sorcerer
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vedalken Aethermage
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge