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Price
€298.90of €300.00
Overall win rate
48%34 wins in 71 scored games
Games
71played in 7 tournaments
Rank
6in the rankings up to €300 · Elo 1761 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
2complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 9 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 6 more only partially well. This result is therefore much less meaningful – the deck probably plays stronger in human hands. Affected cards

At most €300 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (14)

Planeswalkers (1)

Instants (12)

Sorceries (11)

Artifacts (13)

Enchantments (12)

Lands (36)

Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (2)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Windfall + Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
    Example – 36 versions with these cards: Windfall · Echo of Eons · Phyresis · Tainted Strike · Grafted Exoskeleton · Glistening Oil · Nekusar, the Mindrazer · Fate Unraveler and 3 more
  • Peer into the Abyss + … → Near-infinite card draw for target opponent, Near-infinite damage to one opponent, Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
    6 versions, each with one of: Orcish Bowmasters · Underworld Dreams · Psychosis Crawler · Nekusar, the Mindrazer · Razorkin Needlehead · Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Commander Spellbook lists 42 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 42 entries
  • Orcish Bowmasters + Peer into the Abyss → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite card draw for target opponent, Near-infinite damage
  • Peer into the Abyss + Underworld Dreams → Target opponent loses the game
  • Psychosis Crawler + Peer into the Abyss → Near-infinite lifeloss, Near-infinite card draw, Near-infinite draw triggers
  • Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Peer into the Abyss → Near-infinite card draw for target opponent, Near-infinite damage to one opponent, Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
  • Razorkin Needlehead + Peer into the Abyss → Near-infinite damage to one opponent, Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent, Near-infinite card draw for target opponent
  • Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted + Peer into the Abyss → Target player loses the game
  • Windfall + Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Fate Unraveler + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Phyresis + Razorkin Needlehead → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Orcish Bowmasters + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Phyresis + Kederekt Parasite → Each opponent loses the game
  • Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Echo of Eons + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Tainted Strike + Nekusar, the Mindrazer → Each opponent loses the game
  • Razorkin Needlehead + Echo of Eons + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Fate Unraveler + Echo of Eons + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Tainted Strike + Orcish Bowmasters → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Tainted Strike + Razorkin Needlehead → Each opponent loses the game
  • Kederekt Parasite + Echo of Eons + Phyresis → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Tainted Strike + Fate Unraveler → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Grafted Exoskeleton + Razorkin Needlehead → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Tainted Strike + Kederekt Parasite → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Fate Unraveler + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Glistening Oil + Nekusar, the Mindrazer → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Grafted Exoskeleton + Orcish Bowmasters → Each opponent loses the game
  • Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Echo of Eons + Tainted Strike → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Grafted Exoskeleton + Kederekt Parasite → Each opponent loses the game
  • Razorkin Needlehead + Echo of Eons + Tainted Strike → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Glistening Oil + Fate Unraveler → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Glistening Oil + Orcish Bowmasters → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Glistening Oil + Razorkin Needlehead → Each opponent loses the game
  • Fate Unraveler + Echo of Eons + Tainted Strike → Each opponent loses the game
  • Kederekt Parasite + Echo of Eons + Tainted Strike → Each opponent loses the game
  • Windfall + Glistening Oil + Kederekt Parasite → Each opponent loses the game
  • Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Echo of Eons + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Echo of Eons + Glistening Oil → Each opponent loses the game
  • Razorkin Needlehead + Echo of Eons + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Fate Unraveler + Echo of Eons + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Kederekt Parasite + Echo of Eons + Grafted Exoskeleton → Each opponent loses the game
  • Razorkin Needlehead + Echo of Eons + Glistening Oil → Each opponent loses the game
  • Fate Unraveler + Echo of Eons + Glistening Oil → Each opponent loses the game
  • Kederekt Parasite + Echo of Eons + Glistening Oil → Each opponent loses the game

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Dark Deal: AI can't play it
  • Dimir Signet: AI can't play it
  • Glistening Oil: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Jace's Archivist: AI can't play it
  • Magus of the Wheel: AI can't play it
  • Psychosis Crawler: AI can't play it
  • Toxic Deluge: AI can't play it
  • Whispering Madness: AI can't play it
  • Windfall: AI can't play it
  • Winds of Change: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Burning Inquiry: replacement
  • Chromatic Lantern: replacement
  • Curiosity: replacement
  • Font of Mythos: replacement
  • Harmonic Prodigy: replacement
  • Incendiary Command: replacement
  • Mystical Tutor: replacement
  • Niv-Mizzet, Parun: replacement
  • Vision Skeins: test
  • Wheel of Fate: replacement

What the games show

From 71 analysed games in 7 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins mostly through direct damage – only 8% is combat damage

Strengths

  • Applies a lot of pressure: avg 57 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (71 games)
  • Clears the table: eliminates 1.18 opponents per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (71 games)
  • Wins fast: wins on average already on its 9th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (34 wins)
  • Rarely out first: eliminated first in only 11% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (8 of 71 games)

Weaknesses

  • Frequent mulligans: kept fewer than 7 cards in 13% of games (all-deck avg: 5%) logged (71 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 71 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Nekusar, the Mindrazer avg 29.9hit in 65 of 71 games
  2. Razorkin Needlehead avg 6.1hit in 13 of 71 games
  3. Orcish Bowmasters avg 3.5hit in 14 of 71 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Razorkin Needlehead avg 33.5hit in 13 of 71 games
  2. Nekusar, the Mindrazer avg 32.6hit in 65 of 71 games
  3. Underworld Dreams avg 22.0hit in 8 of 71 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Nekusar, the Mindrazer 35×71 games in deck
  2. Kederekt Parasite 7×71 games in deck
  3. Orcish Bowmasters 5×71 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Forced Fruition 25×avg 0.4 per game · 71 games in deck
  2. Terminate 22×avg 0.3 per game · 71 games in deck
  3. Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted 14×avg 0.2 per game · 71 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 18% of 159 attackers blocked in total, 36% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Baleful Mastery 0%cast in 0 of 71 games
  2. Peer into the Abyss 0%cast in 0 of 71 games
  3. Reforge the Soul 0%cast in 0 of 71 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 34 wins came

  • by turn 721%
  • turns 8–944%
  • turns 10–1118%
  • turns 12–1315%
  • turn 14+3%

Combos in play logged Orcish Bowmasters + Peer into the Abyss: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Peer into the Abyss + Underworld Dreams: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Psychosis Crawler + Peer into the Abyss: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Peer into the Abyss: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.87

0
7
1
25
2
16
3
7
4
4
5
2
6
2
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
9 / 9
Card draw
24 / 20
Removal
9 / 9
Board wipe
3 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
16 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
14
Planeswalkers
1
Instants
12
Sorceries
11
Artifacts
13
Enchantments
12
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Orcish Bowmasters
€35.30
Cyclonic Rift
€23.77
Polluted Delta
€19.12
Bloodstained Mire
€17.32
Echo of Eons
€10.94
Faerie Mastermind
€10.57
Blood Crypt
€10.03
Steam Vents
€9.90

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

3 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €298.90 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 2 · average place 8.9 · 1× top 3 · 4× top 10 out of 7 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?