Overview:

A Nekusar, the Mindrazer wheel and pain strategy deck that aims to punish opponents for drawing cards while generating card advantage through forced draws and wheels.

Primer:

This deck operates on a strategy of forcing opponents to draw cards while punishing them for doing so. The commander, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, serves as the primary engine, dealing damage whenever opponents draw cards. This is supplemented by similar effects from cards like Fate Unraveler and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. The deck uses wheel effects like Windfall and Wheel of Misfortune to force mass card draw while simultaneously depleting opponents' life totals.

The secondary strategy involves controlling the board through board wipes like Damnation and Blasphemous Act, while maintaining card advantage through effects like Phyrexian Arena and Court of Ambition. The deck can also pivot to a combat strategy with creatures like Master of Cruelties or drain strategy with Blood Artist and Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Weaknesses:

The deck is heavily reliant on its commander to execute its primary strategy, making it vulnerable to repeated removal. The mana base shows room for improvement, which could affect the deck's ability to cast spells consistently. The deck also lacks sufficient protection for its key pieces and could struggle against aggressive strategies that can eliminate players before the wheel strategy comes online.

Top 10 Most Impactful Cards:

• Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• Windfall
• Peer into the Abyss
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Wheel of Misfortune
• Waste Not
• Black Market
• Sol Ring
• Wound Reflection
• Damnation

Attribute Ratings:

• Speed: 5/10
• Resilience: 4/10
• Consistency: 5/10
• Interaction: 6/10

Rating Justification:

This deck sits firmly in the optimized casual range, with its ability to consistently execute its strategy but lacking the explosive speed and protection of higher-powered decks. While it can create powerful turns with wheel effects and damage multipliers, it typically needs several turns to set up its engine. The interaction suite is decent but not comprehensive enough for higher-powered tables. The deck would struggle against power level 6+ decks due to their faster execution and better protection, but would be too strong for most precon-level decks.

Final power level rating: 5.0 - 5.5