Nekusar’s Deck of Pain and Punishment (no wheels)

Commander / EDH* Discard Enchantment UBR (Grixis)

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (9)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (18)

• 1x Blood Seeker
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Flameblade Angel
• 1x Forgeborn Oreads
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Immolation Shaman
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Nightshade Harvester
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia
• 1x Viseling

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Commander (1)

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Wound Reflection

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal

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Creature (5)

• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Razorkin Needlehead
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Artifact (2)

• 1x Cursed Rack
• 1x Thumbscrews

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You draw, you die. (Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Fate Unraveler, Kederekt Parasite, Underworld Dreams, Fevered Visions, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted)

I draw, you die. (Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Psychosis Crawler)

You discard, you die. (Megrim, Raiders' Wake, Liliana's Caress)

I discard, you die. (Faith of the Devoted)

You play a land, you die. (Polluted Bonds, Nightshade Harvester)

I play a land, you die. (Retreat to Hagra)

You play a creature, you die. (Trespasser's Curse, Blood Seeker)

You attack me, you die. (Revenge of Ravens, Hissing Miasma)

You deal damage to me or any of my creatures in any way, you die. (Flameblade Angel)

You cast a spell, you discard and die, or just die. (Painful Quandary) And then die some more. (Kaervek the Merciless)

I play enchantments, you discard and die, (Thoughtrender Lamia) and then die some more. (Forgeborn Oreads, Grim Guardian)

You lose life, you die some more. Wound Reflection)

You activate a non mana ability of any artifact, creature, or land you die (Harsh Mentor and Immolation Shaman

You have too many cards in hand during your upkeep, you die. (Iron Maiden, Viseling)

This deck will punish you for damn near everything you or I do. Including dying just by entering my upkeep phase. (Palace Siege, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, Subversion)

Or entering your upkeep phase (Mogis, God of Slaughter)

This a no combat, no wheel themed Nekusar deck. All creatures are for abilities only and damn near every other card will punish opponents for anything they or I do. The ways I use to abuse Nekusar’s ability to replace wheels that most people use are ways to make opponents draw more cards are:

• Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• Kami of the Crescent Moon
• Master of the Feast
• Dictate of Kruphix
• Fevered Visions
• Forced Fruition
• Font of Mythos

Get a number of those into play and it’s damn near a wheel effect every turn. If you need to deal with one or two creatures with nasty abilities tutor out Nin, the Pain Artist and blow it up and force them to draw more. You could go an entire game without even bringing Nekusar into play. Hell, since he puts a big target on your head just guarantee your opponents you won’t cast him for the first game. They will still suffer. I built him without wheels simply to challenge myself to make him different than every other Nekusar deck on this site.

The 6 counterspells in this deck should only be used in the event of mass removal, mass bounce spells or Blood Moon, all of which will cripple this deck. You can recover from a little spot removal here and there because there are so many ways to punish in this deck, mass removal will cripple this deck on the other hand so just know what needs to be countered and what doesn’t.

Top Ranked	Achieved #47 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #19 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Cruel Control 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Discard 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 day
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C
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