Nekusar says Draw and Die

Commander / EDH Combo Discard Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis)

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Land (27)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Instant (23)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Fork
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Retract
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wheel and Deal

Artifact (15)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Commander (1)

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (5)

• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

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Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Land (1)

• 1x Reliquary Tower

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I got the idea for this deck from my modern waste not storm deck and decided I wanted to abuse Waste Not and drawing/discarding in EDH too.

In the first couple of turns we don't really do a lot except for being a blue player and drawing cards. Occasionally counterspelling something but generally biding our time until we can get some damage onto the battlefield in the form of Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Fate Unraveler, Underworld Dreams, or Nekusar, the Mindrazer himself.

The fun starts when we have any of the cards named above, and preferably Waste Not, because now we want to start wheeling. Make your opponents discard, because we will get a crap ton of triggers from Waste Not, usually following up with more wheels which kills them.

If that fails we have a secondary win condition in Laboratory Maniac. If we have him in our hand we can tutor for Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact and just win if we have a draw spell. If we don't have him in our hand we can tutor for Doomsday and make a pile with draw spells, maybe a counterspell and Laboratory Maniac.

Top Ranked	Achieved #36 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 61 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.37
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	likem, Commander / EDH, E. fun EDH, EDH (Combo), Cool, But Janky, 11 Idee 2, Commander, wooop dare it is, Nekusar, OG