Big Smart Dragon

Commander / EDH*

Plugs

Instant (12)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Daze
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hypothesizzle
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Opt
• 1x Radical Idea

Artifact (7)

• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Izzet Viceroy

Land (32)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Highland Lake
• 13x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Firemind's Research
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Beacon Bolt
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Sift

Commander (1)

Creature (8)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Psychosis Crawler

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song

Creature (5)

• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x The Locust God

Artifact (6)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Credit Voucher
• 1x Gorgon's Head
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Land (4)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Rolling Thunder

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sigil of Sleep
• 1x Stranglehold

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Maybeboard

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Alexi's Cloak
• 1x Charisma
• 1x Omniscience

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Swan Song

Creature (7)

• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Erratic Cyclops
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner

Land (3)

• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seat of the Synod

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Overview

Big Smart Dragon is a focused Niv-Mizzet Parun spellslinger deck. Most of my decks are for fun but I would like one deck that is able to hold up against other focused decks. There is no budget although I'm trying to keep it under £30 per card.

The mainboard section is filled with cards I already own and are in the deck. I am fine with taking some of these out when making room for a new addition. The sideboard is filled with cards I am currently trying to acquire to put into the deck. The maybe section is filled with cards that I am considering for the deck but haven't decided on yet.

Combos

Basic but essential combo is Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter to combo with my mana generating artifacts. May need to add more of them in to make it more viable.

Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, Parun combo off together allowing me to draw my entire deck and deal damage to someone equal to the number of cards in my deck. I have two other cards in my sideboard to allow me to do this which I will add in.

I then want to add Laboratory Maniac for when I have no cards left. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth will work with this as well because at the end of my turn I discard him into the graveyard, triggering his effect and allowing me to use my whole deck again, probably being enough to kill everyone by this point.

Need to get more ways to protect combo pieces, search for them and get them back if destroyed.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, Parun
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 4 Mythic Rares 10 - 11 Rares 16 - 7 Uncommons 18 - 8 Commons
Cards	70
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Ral, Izzet Viceroy, Insect 1/1 UR