Unknown Unknowns - Mizzix *arcane* spellslinger

Commander / EDH

Vessil

Instant (27)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Consuming Vortex
• 1x Dampen Thought
• 1x Desperate Ravings
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disrupting Shoal
• 1x Divergent Transformations
• 1x Evermind
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Firemind's Foresight
• 1x Glacial Ray
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Overblaze
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Psychic Puppetry
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Reweave
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sift Through Sands
• 1x Through the Breach

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Jace's Sanctum

Land (37)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Homeward Path
• 10x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Unknown Shores
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Artifact (10)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Long-Forgotten Gohei
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Eerie Procession
• 1x Eye of Nowhere
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Heed the Mists
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Lava Spike
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Petals of Insight
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Release the Gremlins

Creature (8)

• 1x Djinn Illuminatus
• 1x Izzet Guildmage
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x The Unspeakable
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Pact of Negation

Sorcery (4)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Training Grounds

Creature (3)

• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Nivix Guildmage
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

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Mizzix leads yet another UR combo deck, but this one is focused on the barely-viable Kamigawa mechanics Arcane and Splice. The main win condition is Izzet Guildmage + Desperate Ritual + Lava Spike/another 1-2 cmc arcane sorcery, or Izzet Guildmage + Psychic Puppetry + Gilded Lotus + another splice spell/arcane instant 1-2 cmc. Splice + Djinn Illuminatus is also pretty sweet.

Splice is good for maintaining card advantage, but is very mana hungry so Mizzix, other cost reducers like Long-Forgotten Gohei, and artifact ramp is used to help with that. No Goblin Electromancer or Baral because of Reweave. Rest of the deck digs for the pieces and uses both Arcane spells and UR staples to hold off threats until one of the combos can be assembled.

Reweave is great because it gets either Izzet Guildmage for the combo or one of the many fatties as a backup. Through the Breach also works, and this deck we can finally use their splice abilities for value. And then I added in flip Jace, which kind of screws with the Reweave plan. But Jace is not terrible to hit off Reweave, and actually is good with Through the Breach (since if it flips we get to keep it for good).

The sideboard can be used to make the combos more redundant/consistent (Sneak Attack to compliment the big creature plan, Nivix Guildmage + Training Grounds to compliment the copy Splice plan) or to make the deck more controlling (counters, sweepers, and Teferi).

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 3 Mythic Rares 33 - 9 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 22 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Experience Token, Gremlin 2/2 R, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R