Jeleva/Nekusar's Mills on Wheels

Commander / EDH* Mill Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

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Lands (37)

• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x High Market
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Underground River

Wraths (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Evacuation

Bombs (4)

• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Time Stretch

Mill (19)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Chill of Foreboding
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

ForcedDraw (17)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Answers (1)

• 1x Forbid

Commanders (2)

Forts (8)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Storage Matrix

ManaRamp/Fixing (5)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Utility (3)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Relic of Progenitus

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Sideboard

Mill (2)

• 1x Szadek, Lord of Secrets
• 1x Undead Alchemist

Utility (2)

• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Answers (1)

• 1x Grisly Spectacle

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Maybeboard

Other (12)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Cerebral Vortex
• 1x Extract
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Utility (7)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Bombs (2)

• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Mortivore

Wraths (1)

• 1x Life's Finale

Mill (6)

• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Sands of Delirium
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Answers (1)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon

Counters (1)

• 1x Induce Paranoia

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-I initially built a Mill deck around Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge, but at some point I was glancing at a Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck that liked a lot and I realized that my Jeleva deck was very similar to a typical Nekusar build. I am a huge fan of decks that can seamlessly alternate Commanders between games, but is a hard balance to achieve. I had previously done it with my Sigarda, Host of Herons/Dragonlord Dromoka Enchantress deck and I liked how that turned out. So here it goes for attempt #2 at an alternating Commander deck.

Jeleva's Mill

-I wanted a Mill deck for a long time but was slowed down by all of the anti-mill chatter all over the net. Obviously, Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge isn't an archetypal Mill Commander and red isn't usually present in Mill strategies, but Jeleva presents a unique and powerful twist along with a solid mill mechanic. The fact that her ability exiles makes it markedly more powerful than the typical mill effect. On average, I cast her around 4 times a game; which Exiles 28 cards per player (typically between 112 and 140 total cards from my opponents). I don't enjoy Combo-ing off and try to avoid winning that way. The upside is two-fold: 1. My games vary every time I play in regards to my cards played since I don't tutor combo pieces, and 2. I avoid sub-optimal cards whose only purpose is to suit a combo piece. So far, I find this build to be pretty competitive and a joy to pilot. In the event that someone has a Eldrazi Titan in their deck, i just switch Jeleva to Nekusar and don't miss a beat.

Nekusar's Wheels

-Nekusar draws a lot of hate as a Commander in certain playgroups, but I figure that I can get away with it every now and then if I use him as a response to anti-mill cards primarily. Nekusar is amazing in the 99 of Jeleva Mill, so there is no drawback to using him as an alternate.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 53 - 3 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Testing