Nekusar Draw Slug

Commander / EDH Group Slug Infect UBR (Grixis) Wheels

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Land (36)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (11)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Cerebral Vortex
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Warped Physique

Creature (17)

• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Harmonic Prodigy
• 1x Irencrag Pyromancer
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Magus of the Jar
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Stormfist Crusader
• 1x The Locust God

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1x Improbable Alliance
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Phyrexian Tyranny
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Underworld Dreams

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Toil / Trouble
• 1x Whispering Madness

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Nekusar Draw Slug

Who doesn't like to draw cards? It's half of the equation that makes Simic so reliably good. So, let's cause some conflicted emotional responses by giving our opponents all the card draw they could ever want, but also causing them serious pain when they do so. They'll love you and hate you. Hopefully not hate you too much, though. This is a casual deck.

The core idea is to cause the entire table to draw a bunch of cards, but also punish them for doing so. Since we'll also be seeing a lot of our deck, we have some additional built in reliability, allowing us to use some card slots that would normally be required for redundancy for different tactics. Damage, discards and even infect designed to take advantage of our commander Nekusar, the Mindrazer by making people fear one of the core aspects of the game.

To whit, our gameplans:

1) Group card draw

We want our opponents to draw cards, so symmetrical card draw, which is normally a downside, is, at the very least, less of a downside for this deck.

• Temple Bell: Card draw we have complete control over, letting us trigger effects to our benefit
• Minds Aglow: Makes for a tough choice
• Rankle, Master of Pranks: Lots of effects that work in our favor

2) Punishing people for doing what they're supposed to

This deck wouldn't be very good if we just let our opponents draw cards without some additional cost. Nekusar does a decent amount of heavy lifting, but more effects compound the issue, giving us surprising pressure

• Kederekt Parasite: We'll pretty regularly have a red permanent, and that being the case, it's a cheap effect that does exactly what we want
• Toil / Trouble: Nice little smack for trying to hold all those cards
• Underworld Dreams: A classic

3) Infect?!

Yes, infect! Nekusar is the one dealing the damage, so giving him infect and then, say, wheeling is gonna put a decent amount of infect on the entire table possibly allowing you to sneak the win out from almost nowhere (some set up required)

• Grafted Exoskeleton: Bulks Nekusar up and provides the dirt
• Glistening Oil: Cheap, the downside shouldn't matter and has some recursion
• Phyresis: Another effect

4) Spin those wheels

One of the best way to cause people to draw a bunch of cards, but also a way to deny your opponents some of the resources you handed them. Hopefully they throw away something good, but regardless, they draw a bunch and take some pain. It's a win/win

• Whispering Madness: A wheel we can repeat, maybe?
• Dragon Mage: It's a repeatable on a stick, and at least a removal target
• Magus of the Wheel: Obviously

5) We're drawing cards too

This is not a symmetrical relationship to card drawing. We want to take full advantage of the fact that we're constantly drawing cards.

• Psychosis Crawler: Usually gets pretty big, definitely deals some damage regardless
• The Locust God: It's pretty easy to suddenly end up with a whole swarm of bugs
• Improbable Alliance: Some more tokens on a pretty regular basis

Some additional stand outs

• Harmonic Prodigy: Causes both of Nekusar's triggers to happen twice, resulting in drawing at least 3 cards per turn, and your opponents taking 2 damage (without additional effects, even) for each of those cards. It also provides more value from some other creatures
• Helm of the Ghastlord: Our biggest jerk card. Attached to Nekusar, it prevents opponents from building up a hand if they don't already have answers, and gives us a whole bunch of cards to work with
• Dictate of the Twin Gods: We're not doubling big damage, but we are double a lot of instances of little damage, which is basically the same thing. Kind of.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.36
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Faerie 1/1 U, Insect 1/1 UR, Wizard 2/2 U
Folders	interesting decks