Xyris-kusar, the Snake-Raiser

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Card Draw Matters RUG (Temur) Snake Tokens

Zerethon

Land (37)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Bristling Backwoods
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Eroded Canyon
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lush Oasis
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Quandrix Campus
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savage Mansion
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Teleportal
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Winds of Change

Creature (26)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Agate Instigator
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
• 1x Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Esix, Fractal Bloom
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Illuna, Apex of Wishes
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Keen-Eyed Curator
• 1x Koma, World-Eater
• 1x Molten Gatekeeper
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Runed Servitor
• 1x Scrawling Crawler
• 1x Seedborn MuseGC
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Trailtracker Scout

Instant (7)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Biomass Mutation
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Remand

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (10)

• 1x AEther Barrier
• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Gaea's Anthem
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Temur Ascendancy
• 1x The Rollercrusher Ride
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Well of Ideas

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas

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This is the final in the "I had to make the nightmare real to make the voices stop" series of my recent trio (Brenard, Graaz, And Xyris)

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I built a very hilariously oppressive (t4+) Nekusar deck, but it never really saw updates or play after the main game store i played at in my hometown closed and i moved away for work a bit later. Since my current group does a lot more casual/modded precon 3/3+ kinda decks

So, zombie boy gathered dust until during my current builds i dug his box out, thought about it, then remembered a certain snake-spamming SOB from C20/CDMU that i had the shiny version of in another deck.

Much manic giggling and mild psychosis later i ended up with this. It's basically the blue/red and artifact side of a nekusar list, with green shenanigans added in. Missing a couple cards i just haven't dug out yet (Scrawling crawler, etc) Like the other 2 in this trio, but it'll get updated later after i've played it a few more times and know where to mod things

Basically, draw a lot of cards, make everyone draw cards, make a lot of snakes, run people over with draw/etb/combat damage (Winds of change + Impact tremors is always a true combo) Chaos is here and it's one ugly motha'

Edit 6/18/'26: Updated list to reflect current sleeved version with 200% more ETB damage

Date added	3 months
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Agate Instigator 1/1 R, Beau, Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden, Koma's Coil 3/3 U, Morph 2/2 C, Myr 2/1 U, Snake 1/1 G
Folders	Physical EDH Decks