Nekusar — Drawn to Despair • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$3.49 $3.86 $1.96

Commander

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Draw

Qty: 19 Price: $129.92

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Bird

$8.99 $6.66 $6.19

Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery

$---- $3.55 $2.59

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.99 $0.78 $0.78

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.74 $2.08

Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$11.99 $10.28 $7.45

Fevered Visions

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.16 $0.59

Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.82 $2.21

Jace's Archivist

: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature - Wizard Vedalken

$16.99 $15.57 $11.98

Magus of the Wheel

, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $1.37 $0.54

Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.06 $3.94

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$1.99 $1.25 $0.92

Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$7.49 $6.14 $4.76

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

$1.49 $1.95 $1.04

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature - Human Knight

$0.79 $1.00 $0.34

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Artifact

$19.99 $20.63 $14.45

Wheel and Deal

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards.
Draw a card.

Instant

$20.99 $18.27 $15.76

Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.71 $2.04

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.49 $6.12 $4.87

Winds of Change

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.46 $3.89

Draw

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Drawing is Painful

Qty: 11 Price: $272.09

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$29.99 $20.51 $18.23

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment

$79.99 $64.79 $67.73

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment - Hag

$3.49 $3.36 $2.34

Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature - Horror

$13.99 $9.06 $7.39

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

$1.29 $1.13 $0.72

Phyrexian Tyranny

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay

Enchantment

$1.29 $1.75 $1.77

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$1.79 $2.13 $1.00

Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature - Human Assassin

$8.49 $5.44 $5.19

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

$9.99 $6.54 $3.28

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$119.99 $99.96 $104.20

Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.79 $0.98 $0.36

Drawing is Painful

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Interaction

Qty: 14 Price: $98.96

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$0.99 $0.41 $0.15

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$5.49 $2.75 $2.60

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$5.49 $2.13 $2.13

Baleful Mastery

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the

cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$3.49 $2.54 $2.27

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.69 $0.78 $0.26

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$1.99 $0.98 $0.81

Blasphemous Edict

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery

$7.99 $4.16 $3.64

Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant

$1.29 $1.43 $0.37

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant

$2.49 $1.70 $1.12

Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant

$1.29 $0.31 $0.15

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature - Archer Orc

$54.99 $40.71 $35.92

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$2.29 $1.48 $0.65

Sigil of Sleep

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Aura

$8.99 $9.43 $6.30

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$1.49 $0.98 $0.26

Interaction

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $193.65

Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

$3.99 $2.61 $1.64

Blazemire Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land

$20.99 $11.58 $10.94

Blood Crypt

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$16.99 $10.10 $9.81

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.79 $1.95 $1.57

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.79 $0.23 $0.20

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.27

Darkslick Shores

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

$4.49 $2.53 $2.29

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.54 $0.51

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.99 $1.40 $0.40

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$2.49 $2.92 $1.51

Gloomlake Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Land

$18.99 $10.37 $8.64

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

: Add

: Each player draws a card.

Legendary Land

$9.49 $4.62 $4.84

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.51 $4.04

Riverpyre Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land

$29.99 $22.65 $21.69

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.21

Spirebluff Canal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.93 $4.01

Steam Vents

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Mountain

$17.99 $10.16 $9.39

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.79 $4.14 $1.56

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.22 $0.15

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.49 $1.70 $0.81

Watery Grave

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$14.99 $10.60 $9.37

Xander's Lounge

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp Mountain

$19.99 $14.25 $12.99

Land

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Protection

Qty: 6 Price: $35.74

Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.52 $0.15

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $3.91 $4.11

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.05 $2.47

Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat.
No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$13.99 $10.61 $9.22

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant

$5.99 $6.32 $4.63

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.84 $1.85

Protection

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $28.30

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.77 $0.43

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.89 $0.36

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$9.49 $6.06 $5.19

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.49 $1.12 $1.03

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.49 $1.22 $0.72

Izzet Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.43 $0.27

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost

less to cast.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.42 $0.28

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $3.94 $1.37

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.80 $1.44

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.38 $2.25

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 34 Price: $545.58

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature - Horror Squid

$0.79 $1.02 $0.31

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$42.99 $32.34 $30.89

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.42 $2.94

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact

$10.99 $9.30 $8.05

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$39.99 $39.16 $39.33

Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Dragon Mage

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature - Wizard Dragon

$0.49 $0.40 $0.20

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$89.99 $---- $80.92

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Ward

(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays

.)
Three Autostubs — Whenever another source you control deals exactly 1 damage to a permanent or player, Ghyrson Starn deals 2 damage to that permanent or player.

Legendary Creature - Human Tyranid

$32.99 $31.24 $27.84

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Aura

$12.99 $12.86 $6.81

Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If a triggered ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature - Human Wizard

$6.49 $5.51 $2.44

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$10.99 $8.25 $5.76

Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$4.49 $3.74 $3.74

Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.22 $4.88

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$14.99 $11.60 $9.36

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact

$7.99 $5.26 $4.94

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.49 $2.36 $0.93

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact

$14.99 $10.80 $8.90

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$29.99 $30.08 $27.08

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$22.99 $16.20 $16.51

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Flying, trample
Whenever one or more opponents each lose exactly 1 life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis. Exile the top card of your library. Until your next end step, you may play that card.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$15.99 $14.58 $15.57

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.75 $2.86

Seething Landscape

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.39 $0.19 $0.15

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$12.99 $7.29 $4.84

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.

, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$44.99 $30.23 $24.60

Spellskite

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$11.99 $7.81 $6.40

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$4.99 $3.15 $2.22

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment

$8.49 $7.78 $4.07

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

$8.49 $7.39 $6.25

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$8.49 $5.50 $4.88

Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$21.99 $18.13 $17.82

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Elder Demon

$39.99 $24.39 $24.47

Wheel of Fate

Suspend 4—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay

and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.05 $1.65

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 96Est cost: $762.15

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.77Total Mana Value: 169.00

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28 pips - 22 cards

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9 mana - 8 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.77Total Mana Value: 169.00

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