Nekusar's Wheel in the Sky

Commander / EDH Group Slug UBR (Grixis)

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Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 4x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Khorvath's Fury
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sigil of Sleep
• 1x Smoke
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Wheel and Deal

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Rielle, the Everwise
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x The Locust God

Artifact (12)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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Instant (2)

• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip

Artifact (1)

• 1x Geth's Grimoire

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Welcome to Nekusar, the Mindrazer EDH. If you ever wanted to simultaneously punch three of your friends directly in the face, you've come to the right place.

Quick description

This deck is a group-slug deck that I would slot into the Combo Control category. Your overall game plan is to dissuade people from attacking you while you set up the conditions required for you to win. This involves putting cards that hurt your opponents for drawing cards and/or discarding cards into play while also playing cards that make it difficult or undesirable to hurt you. Once you're set up, you can force your opponents to draw and discard a bunch of cards, dealing massive damage to all of your opponents at once and ending the game.

Should I play this deck?

You will like this deck if:

• You like casting non-creature spells.

• You like drawing cards.

• You like taking out multiple people in one go.

You will not like this deck if:

• You want to play and attack with creatures.

• You don't like being sneaky or secretive.

• You like being the aggressor in the match.

Key cards

Pain permanents:

• Nekusar, the Mindrazer obviously will hurt your opponents for drawing cards. The easiest one to access because he is always in the command zone.

• Fate Unraveler is basically another Nekusar, the Mindrazer.

• Psychosis Crawler and Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind are Nekusar, the Mindrazer analagous. They trigger when you draw cards, which can be better like when paired with Consecrated Sphinx.

• Sakashima the Impostor can become a copy of any of the aforementioned creatures. Note that she retains her name, so she CAN copy legendary creatures (Nekusar and Niv-Mizzet).

• Underworld Dreams is just Nekusar's effect on an enchantment.

• Liliana's Caress and Megrim are discard-based pain permanents that will only work with some of the wheel effects.

• Bloodchief Ascension takes some time to get going, but becomes a better version of Caress or Megrim. This effect triggers anytime any card is put into an opponents graveyard meaning creature deaths, mill effects, and even resolving instants/sorceries will begin to hurt your opponents. It also gains you life so that you sustain through the hate that will be directed towards you.

• Waste Not is not technically a pain permanent, but it does provide you benefits off of your opponents discarding cards.

• Tergrid, God of Fright   is also not actually a pain permanent, but will make your discard-based wheels extremely potent. The only thing better than forcing the big stompy player to toss their threats in the graveyard before they can cast them is forcing them to toss them AND getting them yourself.

• The Locust God, again, not a pain permanent, but it rewards you for playing the cards you already wanted to play in your deck.

Controlling the game/not dying:

• Venser's Journal gains you life every turn to stem the bleeding. Ideally you should have plenty of cards in hand, so this should be gaining you a not insignificant amount of life each turn cycle.

• Whip of Erebos gives your pain permanents (specifically your creature-based ones) lifelink, allowing you to sustain a little bit as you wait to kill everyone.

• Sigil of Sleep allows you to keep your opponents boards in check by placing it on something like Nekusar, the Mindrazer or Fate Unraveler.

• Propaganda and Smoke make it more difficult for your opponents to kill you via traditional creature beats.

• No Mercy makes you a painful target to attack with non-token or non-recursive threats.

• Blasphemous Act, Damnation, Deadly Tempest, and Cyclonic Rift reset scary boards so that you don't take a million damage.

• Archfiend of Ifnir can also be a board wipe but will require you to discard some cards to do so.

The Nukes:

• Prosperity with enough mana can be devastating to the table.

• Molten Psyche, Winds of Change, Windfall, Time Reversal, Incendiary Command, Reforge the Soul, Dark Deal, Khorvath's Fury, Whispering Madness, and Wheel and Deal are the wheel effects this deck is built to kill with. They can cycle into each other because there are so many of them in the deck, and with the right setup it's not too hard to kill with them. Outside of being ways to kill your opponents, they can provide fuel to refill your hand if you need some extra cards. Don't hold onto them too aggressively, they are good tools to use even if they won't outright kill your opponents.

• Peer into the Abyss has a lot of text that when combined with Nekusar may as well say "target player loses the game". It can allow you to draw a ton of cards in a pinch as well.

• Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind wins the game if you have enough cards in your deck.

As always, suggestions are helpful for refining decks. It is most helpful if you can suggest a card to cut for each recommended card, and perhaps a reason why you think your suggestion is better than the removed card. Finally, don't forget to hit that +1 if you liked the deck!

-evncrbch

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Squid 1/1 U, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	The crows, Coole Deckideen, [7] Player Decks - (Not mine), Deck ideas, Nekusar, Interesting Commander Decks, Commander decks, EDH, Commander Decks, A Commander of Every Color