Zany Izzet, Wacky Wizards

Commander / EDH

Joe_Paterno

Creature (26)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Izzet Chemister
• 1x Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Mind
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Nivix Guildmage
• 1x Oboro Breezecaller
• 1x Patron of the Moon
• 1x Portal Mage
• 1x Serendib Sorcerer
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tidebinder Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Invoke the Firemind
• 1x Mind Spring
• 1x Reminisce

Land (33)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Lotus Vale
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Teferi's Isle
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Instant (13)

• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Flash
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Strike
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Spell Swindle

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mirror of the Forebears
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Kumena's Awakening
• 1x Quicksilver Dagger
• 1x Shifting Shadow
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

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Niv-Mizzet is my spirit animal. As a fellow lazy pseudo-intellectual, I too enjoy pretending like I know everything worth knowing. Indeed, The Firemind's main ability of annoyingly poking, prodding, and pinging a target every time you draw is a good way to keep people on their toes as well as getting coke dumped on your cards (thank God for double sleeves!), and helps set you up for big swings using cards like The Immortal Sun and a transformed Docent of Perfection combined with an army of wizards. It's a very straight-forward, wide, red/blue creature deck.

Except this is Magic. This deck is full of meandering, ADD-riddled wizards who succeed by their weird intuition, their wits, and sheer fucking luck, and that's exactly what's in front of you.

Borrowing from the big, bad cEDH blue decks that produce infinite draws to intentionally deck out and win with Laboratory Maniac, the main strategy behind this deck is to utilize the Curiosity/Firemind loop to win with a deck-out. However, a more stylish win-con from this same loop involves having more cards in your deck than your opponents' combined life totals, allowing to burn them with draws.

If Curiosity is not immediately available, you can start an infinite mana loop with Oboro Breezecaller and the Patron of the Moon floating two random lands back and forth from hand while repeatedly tapping and untapping Lotus Vale. Once the desired mana count is achieved, you can drop a nuclear proc from Nin, the Pain artist to deal the opponent's remaining deck count worth of damage to a creature.

Ouch.

Nin can also be used in conjunction with Laboratory Maniac to nuke one of your own creatures for the win via deckout. Other options for the targeted card-draw include Blue Sun's Zenith (the classic infinite mana deckout play) and any combination of the two.

If you've ever wanted to say the words "I tap my commander and win, good game fellas," then this is absolutely the deck for you.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	City's Blessing, Elemental 1/0 U, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Treasure