Nekusar’s Deck of Pain and Punishment (no wheels)

Commander / EDH Cruel Control Discard Enchantment UBR (Grixis)

KayneMarco

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal

Enchantment (22)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Elder Mastery
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Web of Inertia
• 1x Wound Reflection

Artifact (12)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Blood Seeker
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Forgeborn Oreads
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Immolation Shaman
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kederekt Parasite
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia

Instant (9)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Maybeboard

Artifact (1)

• 1x Iron Maiden

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Creature (1)

• 1x Flameblade Angel

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You draw, you die. (Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Fate Unraveler, Kederekt Parasite, Underworld Dreams, Spiteful Visions, Fevered Visions)

I draw, you die. (Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Psychosis Crawler)

You discard, you die. (Megrim, Raiders' Wake, Liliana's Caress)

I discard, you die. (Faith of the Devoted)

You play a land, you die. (Polluted Bonds)

I play a land, you die. (Retreat to Hagra)

You play a creature, you die. (Trespasser's Curse, Blood Seeker)

You attack me, you die. (Revenge of Ravens)

You cast a spell, you discard and die, or just die. (Painful Quandary) And then die some more. (Kaervek the Merciless)

I play enchantments, you discard and die, (Thoughtrender Lamia) and then die some more. (Forgeborn Oreads, Grim Guardian)

You lose life, you die some more. Wound Reflection)

You activate a non mana ability of any artifact, creature, or land you die (Harsh Mentor and Immolation Shaman

This deck will punish you for damn near everything you or I do. Including dying just by entering my upkeep phase. (Palace Siege, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, Subversion)

Or entering your upkeep phase (Mogis, God of Slaughter)

This a no combat, no wheel themed Nekusar deck. All creatures are for abilities only and damn near every other card will punish opponents for anything they or I do. The ways I use to abuse Nekusar’s ability to replace wheels that most people use are ways to make opponents draw more cards are:

• Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• Kami of the Crescent Moon
• Master of the Feast
• Dictate of Kruphix
• Fevered Visions
• Spiteful Visions
• Forced Fruition
• Font of Mythos
• Howling Mine

Get a number of those into play and it’s damn near a wheel effect every turn. I run a lot of tutors in this deck and the the 1st two cards you’ll want to tutor out is the Leyline of the Void + Web of Inertia combo. This is so you don’t have to deal with opponents creatures. Just keep a counter ready to defend this game winning combo. And if you do need to deal with one or two with nasty abilities tutor out Nin, the Pain Artist and blow it up and force them to draw more. Another card you want to tutor out early on is Elder Mastery and put it on Nekusar or niv Mizzet if he’s out. Mainly for its ability to make opponents discard for every time enchanted creature deals damage they have to discard 2 cards. So for every card they draw they’ll have to discard 2 if it’s attached to Nekusar or discard 2 for every card you draw if it’s attached to niv. You could go an entire game without even bringing Nekusar into play. Hell, since he puts a big target on your head just guarantee your opponents you won’t cast him for the first game. They will still suffer. I built him without wheels simply to challenge myself to make him different than every other Nekusar deck on this site.

The 6 counterspells in this deck should only be used in the event of mass removal, mass bounce spells or Blood Moon, all of which will cripple this deck. You can recover from a little spot removal here and there because there are so many ways to punish in this deck, mass removal will cripple this deck on the other hand so just know what needs to be countered and what doesn’t.

Top Ranked	Achieved #47 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #19 position in Commander / EDH 3 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Cruel Control 10 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Discard 10 months ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 day
Key combos	Leyline of the Void + Web of Inertia
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	1/1 Spirit
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