NEKUSAR by bwil

Format: Commander

Commander: Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Nekusar, the Mindrazer commands a high-velocity wheel deck designed to weaponize card draw against the entire table. The primary game plan establishes damage-on-draw punishers such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse before resolving symmetrical discard-and-draw spells like Windfall, Dark Deal, and Echo of Eons. Secondary paths utilize Phyresis to instantly eliminate opponents through ten poison counters, amplify damage with Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph, or target a single player with Peer into the Abyss. By combining explosive mana rituals with hand-stripping wheels, the deck dismantles opposing strategies while rapidly depleting enemy life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cerebral Vortex
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Incendiary Command
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Psyche
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swerve
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Change