Walter White's Blue Meth

Commander / EDH Casual Group Slug UBR (Grixis)

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Lands (39)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 13x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Watery Grave

Cheap Creatures (7)

• 1x Cosi's Trickster
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Guul Draz Assassin
• 1x Slumbering Dragon
• 1x Soul-Scar Mage

Counters (6)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate

Equipment (3)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Card Addiction (12)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Wheel of Fate

Ramp (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Removal (5)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Vandalblast

OTK Enablers (2)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Twincast

Commander (1)

Drawing Pains (9)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x The Locust God

Graveyard (7)

• 1x Ever After
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

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Sideboard

Other (17)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Lore Broker
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Whispering Madness

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Nekusar, the Mindrazer is basically Walter White. His blue card draw is the best around, but damned if that addiction gets painful.

My play group is typically fine with draw 2/lose 2 from Nekusar early game, but he needs a decent amount of protection. It's pretty reasonable to hit the entire table for the win. A damage increase from Fate Unraveler / Kederekt Parasite /etc. along with Wheel and Deal and Twincast is 28 damage. Or Liliana's Caress and Nekusar with a wheel can reasonably hit for 15+ damage. Things get even sweeter when he's wearing his Basilisk Collar or wielding a Loxodon Warhammer .

Recent changes have focused on lowering my average CMC and increasing ramp. I also wanted to reduce my reliance on Nekusar, so I included a couple Niv-Mizzets, The Locust God , and graveyard fun with Lazav, Dimir Mastermind , Puppeteer Clique and Wrexial, the Risen Deep .

Notable exclusions:

• Spiteful Visions far too often I've put myself within easy striking distance because of this card.

• Seizan, Perverter of Truth doesn't trigger for each card draw. Not worth the 5 mana!

• Viseling was replaced by Fevered Visions which is all-around better

• Underworld Dreams is hard to cast for 3B. I already have a lot of ways to ping opponents per card and casting too many of them will forge an alliance against me.

• Forced Fruition also makes me the common enemy #1.

• Consuming Aberration is easy to chump-block and this isn't primarily a mill deck.

• Dragon Mage is powerful but has to connect and has high CMC.

• Propaganda is only a deterrent against going wide, and even still not that much. I'd rather have Fog Bank .

• Whispering Madness is not very good when I don't really attack.

• Skyscribing is best when combo'd with massive mana generation, which I lack.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 11 Rares 23 - 5 Uncommons 8 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 UR, Squid 1/1 U
Based on	Hurts so good gemmerich LEG