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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals 1 damage to that player.
Andramalech on Favorite plane and why?
1 month ago
I have love for several different planes.
Mirrodin/Argentum - Karn is one of the oldest characters that I associate myself with, and I happen to really love who and what Karn has become to the world of MTG, since Urza (imo) after encapsulating his character, wasn't someone worth keeping up with. Karn seems timeless and like someone who can be revisited over and over again with new relevance. Mirrodin developed this great butterfly effect where "the actions you didn't even realize you were taking shaped an entire civilization in your absence."
Kamigawa - a typically over-looked plane and set respectfully due to how over-nerfed everything needed to be in Karn's power-hungry wake (i Joke). but some of my favorite characters like Tetsuo Umezawa can be associated to this plane. Not only that but the lineage traces and it just tethers so many different parts of magic together. I am infatuated with the original artwork for Sensei's Divining Top. Much like I am for Mox Opal.
Kiora - relatively un-discovered but I theorize that I could see some developement for Nekusar, the Mindrazer if they ever confirm his home-plane.
Muraganda - I love the general energy of the plane and after Aetherdrift recently, I want to revisit for more development.
Amonkhet - Hazoret is a total baddie and I'm still a bit heartbroken over the death of Oketra, but I like how the plane generally shapes out it's higher-tiered characters such as Hazoret, Oketra, Bontu, Ketramose, etc.
FormOverFunction on Does Anyone Here Miss the …
5 months ago
I can relate to what you’re saying, DemonDragonJ, and I think that some of it (for me, at least) is my age. I miss the times where there wasn’t really any more story than the bare-bones “you’re a wizard shooting Magic(tm) at other wizards, plucking (i.e. conscripting) terrifying and magestic beasts from the æther, and sometimes lucking out and stumbling across a bunch of discarded/lost weaponry left in the terrifying wake of some CRAZY war between wizard brothers. The core sets gave me that feeling, because I wasn’t locked into someone else’s story. Those first commander decks, which I never got around to buying, gave that same feel. I didn’t know Nekusar, the Mindrazer’s back story. I didn’t know that he used to be a benevolent king who tragically lost his beautiful and loving queen Asmerelda who kept his quick-to-anger temperament in check so he turned to dark magic to bring her back but it twisted him into an evil litch who even ended up killing his favorite cook, Johnathon, who always made food that looked like forest creatures, which made him even crazier because Johnathon was secretly a wizard who worked with Asmerelda to keep him calm etc etc run-on sentence intended. It was wide open. The good news is that many of us are being given the opportunity to experience the pre-internet joy of coming across a card that you literally have never even heard of. On balance I’m still very much enjoying Magic: the Gathering, it’s just (as with all things in life) taken a fair amount of personal readjustment.
DemonDragonJ on Foundations Speculation and Discussion
5 months ago
I am very surprised to see that there is no thread yet for discussing the upcoming Foundations set, so I am making such a thread.
I shall not write and elaborate introduction, but there are many cards in that set in which I am very interested; High Fae Trickster is very powerful, and I intend to put it into nearly all of my EDH decks that contain the color blue (Tidal Barracuda and Leyline of Anticipation are still good, in certain decks); I simply must find a way to put perforating artist into my decks that contain the colors red and black; and Scrawling Crawler is an obvious inclusion for my Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck. Is Firespitter Whelp worth the 1 additional mana over Kessig Flamebreather for it to have flying?
Two cards that could have been good, if not for very minor and ridiculous drawbacks, are ravenous amulet and wardens of the cycle; in the case of the wardens, I undersand that WotC had their ability trigger only on their controller's end step, to avoid rendering Deathreap Ritual completely obsolete, but why is the first ability of the amulet usable only as a sorcery, when the second ability can be used as an instant? That severely limits its utility.
What does everyone else here say about this set? Are you excited for Foundations? What are you hoping to see, from it? I am very eager to begin discussion of this set!
legendofa on Brew ideas for Scrawling Crawler
5 months ago
It's basically a smaller Nekusar, the Mindrazer except everyone draws at the same time. At the risk of brining EDH into a Modern discussion, that's where I would start.
Out of Windfall, Jace's Archivist, and Whispering Madness, none of them are high-tier Modern-legal cards, but they would make a nice bridge between Scrawler and the Waste Not effects. Maybe Dark Deal?
Forcefeed Prison: Blood Moon, Fevered Visions, Damping Sphere, Trinisphere, maybe Rule of Law + Ebony Owl Netsuke. That's a lot of 3-cost cards, but there might be something there.
Stormfist Crusader adds a little bit of redundancy, and is an evasive attacker, if that matters.
I see this mostly working in some combination of , , and . Since the Windfall effects aren't great, I think I would take the Forcefeed Prison approach. Stack Scrawler with Sheoldred and Bowmasters, then find ways to make people draw lots of cards without casting spells. Lots of damage, lots of control, but lots of competition for precious deck slots.
Bookrook on What makes a card or …
5 months ago
I think that a toxic deck is anything that generally makes their deck unable to do anything their deck likes to do. So a Maha, Its Feathers Night or a Toxrill, the Corrosive deck might be toxic to a creature reliant stompy deck, but not to a spellslinger deck. Even my Beamtown Bullies deck thinks every deck that plays Leyline of the void is toxic. However, I believe that there are some cards that are generally toxic to all decks, such as grand arbiter Augustin 4, or Nekusar, the Mindrazer.
Bookrook on Top ten most toxic commanders.
5 months ago
These are, in my opinion, the top ten most toxic commanders to play against. The ones where you get teamed up on more than the guy with the turn one sol ring.
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. Infect infect infect infect. Also gets toxic points for being an infect commander.
If they have any kind of token doubler or nonlegendary cloner, you might as well skip your untap step. Once my friend had an Essix, Fractal Bloom out with a Mirror Box.
Numot the Devestator Land destruction. Need I say more?
Nobody cares about the lantern. Everybody cares about their creatures going up for adoption.
Goes infinite with a ham sandwich. Pray WOTC never makes a blue version of it.
The Beamtown Bullies I’m guilty of playing with this deck. Who new there were so many cards with very big downsides. *cough cough Leveler
Do you want people to play with you?
Kaervek, the Spiteful, Night of Souls' Betrayal, and the million other cards that give all creatures -1/-1 until end of turn exist.
All the Phyrexian praetors (but mostly Sheoldred, the Apocalypse)
Card draw is good in commander. Sheoldred deals damage to your opponents when they draw cards. Plus,Peer into the Abyss either instakills an opponent or gives you 30 life and 40 cards.
Just like sheoldred, but you get access to red for wheels and handsize burn spells, and blue for being blue.
*honarable mention to The Infamous Cruelclaw decks that play 99 lands and Worldfire.
DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Font of …
7 months ago
I have a copy of Font of Mythos in my Nekusar, the Mindrazer EDH deck, but I am wondering if I should keep it, in that deck, because that deck already has plenty of cards that force my opponents to draw cards, and my opponents shall receive that card's benefit before I do, unless I find a way to cast it on an opponent's turn, so I am contemplating replacing that card with another card that punishes my opponents for drawing cards, such as Razorkin Needlehead from the upcoming Duskmourn set, which would also have the additional benefit of lowering my deck's mana curve. Alternatively, I could replace the font with Cutthroat Negotiator, as I have been hoping to put that card into at least one of my decks.
What does everyone else say about this matter? Should I keep Font of Mythos in my Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck, or replace that card with another one?
DarkKiridon on Is Staff of Completion a …
9 months ago
I should retract my one statement and point out that not just group hug decks, but decks like Nekusar, the Mindrazer among others.
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