Wheel of Fortune

Commander / EDH Combo UBR (Grixis)

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Land (34)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 9x Island
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Draw (8)

• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Rhystic Study

Tutor (3)

• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Nivcombo (2)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Labcombo (1)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac

Labman (1)

• 1x Demonic Consultation

Ramp (13)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

Punishment (9)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

Interaction (7)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x By Force
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate

Other (1)

• 1x Reverberate

Protection (1)

• 1x Propaganda

Commander (1)

WheelandDeal (12)

• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Cantrip (5)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain

Boardwipe (2)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cyclonic Rift

Recursion (1)

• 1x Past in Flames

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Nekusar

Spend your early turns putting down some enchantments, ramping, slowing down your opponents, and drawing a wheel effect or two. Depending on how many "punishment" cards you've drawn your first few turns you can decide whether you need to cast Nekusar or not. Often times getting a couple enchantments down will be sufficient, you don't need to get Nek down every game and often he'll get hated on anyway.

Once you've got some permanents that'll do damage for draw or discard, all you're looking to do is wheel, and if you have a couple punishers down you can end the game with back to back wheels. It becomes pretty easy to do 14, 21 or even 28 damage to the whole table with just a Windfall or Reforge the Soul.

I've seen a lot of lists online include things such as Dictate of Kruphix or Master of the Feast, I disagree with cards like these. It makes the deck into more of a tax effect while feeding your opponents cards nice and steady. I want to keep changing their entire hand and do 14+ damage doing so rather than spend 5 turns sapping them for 2-6 and hoping they don't draw win cons. I've also seen using auras (Curiosity,Phyresis,Helm of the Ghastlord) and I get it. When these cards work, they're absolutely savage. That requires resolving and protecting Nekusar though and you better believe when you enchant him the whole damn table is coming for you. Not to mention with infect it's going to take two wheel effects to deal 10, most of the time if you can get two wheels off you'll have won or be close through regular damage anyway...

This is just my currently owned list, manabase can be upgraded, rocks like Mana Crypt added, and some obvious replacements like Damnation in place of Deadly Tempest.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.73
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH