Nekusar, The Dementia Dude

Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis)

Dimeziz

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seething Landscape
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Creature (9)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Scrawling Crawler

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Languish
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Well of Ideas

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Professor Onyx

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell

Instant (10)

• 1x Cerebral Vortex
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Negate
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Wheel and Deal

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This deck is heavily corrupt-themed. I looked for card art, and functions to represent a lichlord slowly eating away at his opponents.

As for gameplan, any seasoned commander player knows about nekusar and what the idea is. Opponents take damage when they draw, and oh how they draw. wheel effects are the bread and butter, as you gain more resources, when you opponents' plans pour down the sink, as they draw their now, painful hand.

Nekusar of course does this alone, but needs help if you want to actually tick everyone for 40 life. Similar effect are Underworld Dreams, Kederekt Parasite and Spiteful Visions. Wheel effects that make everyone draw new hands are Wheel and Deal, (Gavlan, anyone?) Windfall, Day's Undoing and the most powerful one of them all: Teferi's Puzzle Box

You often will feel the pain with your opponents so protecting yourself from additional damage is a good idea. Boardwipes like Blasphemous Act and Killing Wave keep masses in control and point removals threaten anyone willing to stop your slow torture. Walls like Propaganda and heavily underused Koskun Falls keep aggression to a minimum, and active walls like Fog Bank and bigger meat like Niv-Mizzet, Parun deal with the ones that get trough.

The deck also has a hand in discarding, as some wheel effects make everyone discard the previous hand. additionally opponents often go over 7 cards, making them discard more. Waste Not takes great advantage of that, and Meagrim does damage. Helpful plan B is Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac that you can get quite consistently due to the cards everyone is drawing, if that somehow doesn't already win you the game. (also funny if you have either of the Niv-Mizzets on the BF)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Key combos	Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Nekusar EDH