MTG Salvation

I was unable to locate cards for the Jund deck I was working on and decided to try out a Grixis deck. I want to build a punisher style deck using things like Nekusar, the Mindrazer (doot doot) and underworld dreams. I haven't seen this archtype discussed since 2013 and many relevant cards have been printed since then.

These are the cards I am probably going to include:

• 4 Underworld Dreams
  
• 4 Fate Unraveler
  
• 4 Fevered Visions
  
• 4 Spiteful Visions
  
• 3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  
• 4 Master of the Feast
  
• 4 Whispering Madness
  
• 4 Bloodstained Mire
  
• 2 Polluted Delta
  
• 1 Watery Grave
  
• 1 Blood Crypt
  
• 5 Swamp
  
• 1 Mountain
  
• 1 Island
  
• 2 Sunken Hollow
  
• 2 Smoldering Marsh
  
• 2 Tainted Isle
  
• 2 Tainted Peak
  
• 2 Glacial Chasm

I'm considering Kederekt Parasite, but I think that would require a red two drop to get him active asap. I'm having trouble finding ones that would work well. So far the most playable ones look like:
shocker humble defector or rain of gore.

Is the parasite even worth the effort? Does he need a red two drop at all? Any other thoughts?

Have you thought about drawing your own cards while everyone gets rid of theirs instead? If so you could replace Nekusar with Psychosis Crawler and other shenanigans. Triple Black may be hard on the manabase to get it going on then 3 unless you add in 4 Dark Ritual.Here's a deck I run that's a lot of fun. Maybe it will give you some good ideas for card selection.



You can always make things more oppressive with the Thief with cards like Waste Not and Burning Inquiry.

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Is the parasite even worth the effort?

Hell no.

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Any other thoughts?

You're playing a Blue deck with fetchlands. 4x Brainstorm is a must. Ponder should also be played as a 2-4 of. Having a deck that consistently curves out, makes its land drops, draws the right cards in the right order, etc. is significantly more reliable than hoping to get lucky.

You need a 2 drop like Liliana's Caress or Waste Not. Your current list has actual nothing to do on turns 1-2 and that's unacceptable for a combo deck.

Windfall is strictly better than the Madness but if if it's for B&R list reasons then that's fine. That being said you'll probably want a card like Dark Deal or Teferi's Puzzle Box to bring some redundancy to that aspect of the combo.

A sample deck might look something like:



Alternatively you cut Innocent Blood for Duress, Foil or Misdirection based on your metagame needs. Spiteful Visions is also easily cuttable. This deck should goldfish extremely quick, consistent wins.

Giving your opponents cards is risky, so I would want cards like Sire of Insanity.
Mindslicer or Psychosis Crawler perhaps?

Necro without permission. Take the discussion to the new deck's thread.