Gwendlyn & Friends

Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis)

MULRAH

Lands (36)

• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 10x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 4x Mountain
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Training Center

Ramp (8)

• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Tantalite
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Wheels & "Wheels" (8)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior
• 1x Winds of Change

Card Advantage (8)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Valki, God of Lies  ^Flip

Draw-Discard Payoffs (8)

• 1x Breathstealer's Crypt
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phyrexian Tyranny
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Waste Not

Nekusar Module (8)

• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Spiteful Visions

Fun (7)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Mindmoil
• 1x Mordenkainen
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Commander (1)

Hive Mind Combos (8)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Paradigm Shift
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Selective Memory
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern

Removal (8)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Killing Wave

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This deck utilizes the "wheels" strategy to pump opponents' hands full of cards and then punishes them for drawing and discarding. Minor synergies in the deck enable you to take advantage of your graveyard, but this is not a graveyard deck. Various combos, mostly using Hive Mind, can provide an alternative win condition. Gwendlyn Di Corci helms the deck so it is eligible for my low/mid-power playgroup, but the deck is ostensibly a Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck.

This deck was built with the 8x8 method by which there are eight modules of eight cards plus 36 lands.

Standard Modules

All my decks have the same four modules, though they are filled with different cards depending on the deck's theme.

1. Ramp: Since ramp is not a strength of UBR, these are mostly generic mana rocks in the right colors. Note that the most effective of these have been reserved for my Commander Cube.
2. Removal: About half of these work with the deck's theme, providing card draw, wheel effects, etc., but half are just generically useful in these colors.
3. Card Advantage: For the most part, these cards are specific to the deck's theme, though the powerhouses like Kess, Dissident Mage would of course be welcome in any UBR deck. Some cards need the deck's theme to be working to be fully operational, while others can double as card draw and win conditions (Blue Sun's Zenith).

4. "Fun": This suite includes a bunch of miscellaneous effects that look like fun for this deck but are not necessarily part of a more significant subtheme.

Thematic Modules

These modules work together to give this deck its unique character.

Wheels & "Wheels": Half of this suite is genuine wheel effects--cards that force everyone to discard their hands and draw seven cards. The other half is similar to these and definitely fit into the deck's theme, but they do it a little differently, such as drawing and then discarding, drawing only the number cards you originally had, etc.

Nekusar Module: These cards, like Nekusar himself, provide all players with additional draws every turn (except Prosperity). In addition, half these cards (also like Nekusar) punish players for those draws. Good times!

Draw-Discard Payoffs: These cards extend the latter function of the Nekusar module but without the persistent card draw. Some of these cards punish players (or reward you) for opponents discarding, which happens en masse off the wheel effects and might continue to happen if they end their turns with more than seven cards.

Hive Mind Combos: This module provides a bunch of cards that combo with Hive Mind (and each other) as well as other cards elsewhere in the deck. With all the cards you will be drawing, it is actually quite possible to assemble one of these combos as an alternate win condition.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Dog Illusion */* U, Emblem Mordenkainen, Emblem Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander - Thematic Decks (Low/Mid-Power)