Izzet to Win it

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

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Mana Base (41)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Highland Lake
• 11x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek

Board Wipes (4)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Temporal Fissure

Utility (4)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x By Force
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Value (22)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Jori En, Ruin Diver
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Opt
• 1x Quiet Speculation
• 1x Radical Idea
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Counter Spells (6)

• 1x Calculated Dismissal
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Negate
• 1x Unwind

Spell Bombs (3)

• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Rite of Replication

Commander (1)

Engines (10)

• 1x Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Recursion and copying (9)

• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Spellweaver Volute
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm
• 1x Volcanic Vision

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Maybeboard

Pricey (24)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Fork
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swan Song

Cheap (11)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Beacon Bolt
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Howl of the Horde
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Omen
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Shock
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Swarm Intelligence

Niv Mizzet alternatives (3)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Tandem Lookout

Brudiclad alternatives (5)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Darksteel Juggernaut
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

General Alternatives (5)

• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Temporal Trespass

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Running the deck is pretty straight forward. Just keep your engines alive and draw into a bomb.

For this deck, I usually cycle between three commanders. Each one has a slightly different play-style for different players/games.

Option 1: Malek

Melek, Izzet Paragon gives you card advantage _and _spell duplication. You can guarantee the top card in your library with cards like Mystic Sanctuary and Brainstorm, as well as scrying for additional value. Having a guaranteed bomb duplicated is an easy way to win the game outright. Malek also pulls little aggro to you since it's a very unassuming commander since you're pretty likely early game to have lands on top of your deck instead of something you want. It also gives your opponents information, so they may want it on the board. The key is that when you get the chance to put something on top of your deck, you can out right win the game. Suggested cards are Bonus Round, Rite of Replication, Mind's Desire and Temporal Fissure. The consistency value this commander brings is a lot more than you'd expect.

Option 2: Niv Mizzet

Niv-Mizzet, Parun is also good for giving you a ton of pinging and card draw, but you do have to have a hand to combo-off with to start. If you are going to run Niv as your commander I suggest removing Volcanic Vision, Telling Time, and Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer for Curiosity, Ophidian Eye and Tandem Lookout. It's up to you and your friend group, but these all combo with Niv-Mizzet,Parun to draw your deck and deal that much damage. This is your best choice if you find you aren't drawing engines or they keep getting destroyed.

Option 3: Brudiclad

Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer is fun for when you want to go super wide with massive monsters and aren't afraid of board wipes. For this commander you'll want to swap out Starstorm, Telling Time, Guttersnipe and Jori En, Ruin Diver for Quasiduplicate, Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, Flameshadow Conjuring, and/or Cackling Counterpart. These all give you more tokens that are copies of something that can blow up your opponents. Another good addition is Darksteel Juggernaut for Niv-Mizzet, Parun, since it's indestructible and as strong as it is wide. This is probably the weakest option but one of the most entertaining to play.

Replacements

I try not to blow money of MTG but it is fun. If you got the cards and money I have some upgrades, and if you don't, I got some downgrades.

Cheaper

• Beacon Bolt and Shock are a good replacements for Lightning Bolt, but are objectively worse. Beacon Bolt can't work at instant speed and costs more but can blow up bigger creatures. Shock is just objectively a worse Lightning Bolt.
• Swarm Intelligence is cheaper than Thousand-Year Storm, due to being worse but can be better if you're just going to cast one big spell like Rite of Replication, but if you're casting more than two spells per combo then it is worse off.
• Expansion / Explosion, Reverberation and Narset's Reversal can all replace Mizzix's Mastery but aren't as good.
• Arcane Melee can replace Seething Song. You get more out of it in longer games, so it's actually a decent swap, but Seething Song can be duplicated for a ton of mana in a combo. -Chain Reaction for Comet Storm
• Cackling Counterpart or Quasiduplicate for Rite of Replication. You lose the kicker but it's the same card. -Saheeli, Sublime Artificer can also replace Docent of Perfection   and Young Pyromancer. Really any of our Creatures.

More expensive

• Mystical Tutor is just a good card for any blue deck but especially for ours, since we're running Malek. Good swap out target would be Think Twice or Telling Time.
• Cyclonic Rift can replace Temporal Fissure, Starstorm or Mizzium Mortars. It's probably the best board wipe in the game, and costs enough to reflect that.
• Disallow can replace any of our counterspells. It's a very solid card.
• Mizzix of the Izmagnus is a fun one because it can replace any creature in our deck and can be our commander. Very prone to getting blown up though.
• Ponder is just a better Opt or Brainstorm.
• Expansion / Explosion, Reverberation, Fork, and Narset's Reversal can all replace Recoup, Mystic Retrieval, Epic Experimentand Volcanic Vision for copying. I don't recommend replacing them all because recursion is great but you can.
• Serum Vision and Preordain can all replace Opt. I prefer opt though, since it works at instant speed.
• Primal Amulet   and Baral, Chief of Compliance are good swaps for Curious Homunculus   and/or Goblin Electromancer
• Enter the Infinite for one of Niv-Mizzit, Parun's replacement cards. It's worse but the meme value is solid.
• Temporal Trespass is just a great and underlooked card. We can easily cast it for 3 blue mana by using delve. I usually swap out Epic Experiment for this.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	Bird Illusion 1/1 U, Construct */* C, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Phyrexian Myr 2/1 U