Nekusar Not

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Discard Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

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Land (37)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (5)

• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Instant (10)

• 1x Cerebral Vortex
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wheel and Deal

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Wildfire Eternal

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

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Like most Nekusar, the Mindrazer decks this deck revolves around Discards and Draws. There's Tutoring and Board Wipes to get what you need and keep you in the game. I'll go over those categories and list the main cards below.

Mechanics:

DiscardDark Deal, Wheel of Fate, Wheel of Fortune, Wheel and Deal, Windfall, Whispering Madness, Incendiary Command, Rakdos's Return

DrawNekusar, the Mindrazer, Kami of the Crescent Moon, Brainstorm, Braingeyser, Skyscribing, Prosperity, Howling Mine, Dictate of Kruphix

Tutoring Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Lim-Dul's Vault

Board WipesCyclonic Rift, Decree of Pain, Damnation, Obliterate, Toxic Deluge

I personally like to involve my strategy around getting Waste Not out early turn 2 or 3 and build a strong boardstate with it turn 3 or 4. Playing with 3 opponents or more makes this card more potent. With all the discards in this deck you can cycle through getting more discards, all your black cards, and colorless cards. Turn 3 or 4 you can have average ~15 mana, 10+ zombie tokens, and enough draws to set you up for a win. With that you can easily drop both Ulamogs, Megrim, Liliana's Caress Sorin Markov, Liliana Vess, Yawgmoth's Will into repeating your discards from you graveyard. I personally think that Waste Not is the most synergistic card in this deck.

If the Waste Not doesn't pan out, you have Nekusar to play off of. And you can use all the discard and draw cards to get you there. Usually if the Waste Not strategy doesn't do get anything for you, your almost immediately able to roll into the Nekusar strategy.

Another strategy is build your mana base to 8, drop whatever enchantments and planswalkers you're able to, Obliterate. Build another mana base, up to 11, Obliterate + Yawgmoth's Will . This ruins everyone's lands base for the game and you can slowly get the win. Couple this with Bojuka Bog to exile graveyards, and Chasm Skulker to start pinging away at life totals.

There's a lot of fun things to do with this deck, and it does have consistency with the tutors in it. I find it to be very fair and balanced, for a Nekusar deck.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Obliterate + Yawgmoth's Will
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Squid 1/1 U, Zombie 2/2 B