Izzet Chronarch

Creature — Human Wizard

When Izzet Chronarch enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Discussion (50)

multimedia on Kess Combo

3 months ago

Hey, interesting start on a budget version of Kess.

Some cards to consider adding:

• Baleful Strix
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• Arcane Signet: at TCGPlayer can get it for less than $3.
• Izzet Signet
• Dimir Signet: can get it for less than $1.
• Rakdos Signet
• Crumbling Necropolis: Grixis Tri land.
• Shivan Reef: can get it for less than $1.
• Smoldering Marsh
• Grixis Panorama
• Opal Palace
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Rakdos Carnarium

Cards to consider cutting for these:

• Temple of the False God: it will not tap for mana until your fifth turn which is really bad.
• Vivid Marsh: when it runs out of two counters it can only tap for black.
• Dimir Guildgate
• Swiftwater Cliffs
• 4x Mountain
• Guard Gomazoa or Fog Bank
• Sage's Row Denizen
• Izzet Chronarch
• Mnemonic Wall
• Salvager of Secrets
• Possessed Skaab

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Baleful Strix is a two drop who draws a card when it ETB, that way you can blink it with Deadeye to draw many cards. When you assemble Deadeye + Drake for infinite mana then being able to infinite blink a creature who draws can draw your win condition or draw and cast all cards in your deck. It's possible you could have a win condition already on the battlefield or in hand or graveyard with Kess, but if not then infinite blinking Strix lets you draw it.

Gonti, Lord of Luxury can be a win condition with Deadeye + Drake. It's not opponent mill, it's better, it's opponent exile their libraries and with infinite mana you get to cast all your opponent's cards. Arcane Signet , Izzet Signet, Dimir Signet, Rakdos Signet are some two drop mana rocks so you're not only relying on lands to have enough mana to cast cards.

I don't think you need to play so many creatures who recur an instant or sorcery because isn't that what Kess is for? That's the advantage of Kess, you get to cast an instant or sorcery from your graveyard on your turns, but once you resolve that spell is exiled. An exiled spell is no longer in your graveyard to recur to your hand. Archaeomancer is the only creature you want for this effect because you also have blink spells as well as Deadeye and creature recursion/reanimation spells for Archaeomancer.

Good luck with your deck.

KingMetalink on Gavi, Cycling Warden

7 months ago

Cards like Spellpyre Phoenix, Warden of the Eye, Archaeomancer, Izzet Chronarch, Mnemonic Wall, and Salvager of Secrets can go infinite if you have Astral Drift or Astral Slide in play alongside your Fluctuator. With a Glint-Horn Buccaneer, Drannith Stinger, or Impact Tremors in play, this lets you infinitely ping the whole table to lethal. The fact that all of those cards are already good makes them relatively easy inclusions. Maybe include Tribute Mage and Idyllic Tutor to let you fetch some of the pieces.

Grind on

8 months ago

cool deck!!!
check out Impulse over Anticipate.
maybe Reverberate or Twincast over Doublecast. Repeated Reverberation is another option.
maybe Pull from Tomorrow over Stroke of Genius.
maybe Ghost Quarter over Field of Ruin,
maybe Shivan Reef over Highland Lake,
maybe Brainstorm over Radical Idea,
maybe Fact or Fiction over Chemister's Insight,
maybe Capsize over Into the Roil.
and some other options just to consider: Underworld Breach is great recursion. The Immortal Sun and Well of Ideas are kind of high mana options to give you one-sided more card draw.
and i've always really liked Archaeomancer, Mnemonic Wall, Izzet Chronarch, for those Relearn-type effects. but probably dont need to run all 3 as that is overkill.
anyway just some thoughts, hope it helps!!!
keep having fun! Cheers!

ocannon on Eureka, A Combo!

9 months ago

No prob! I've never actually seen Distant Memories before, I might have to pick up a couple! Seems like it would be really fun and political. And that makes sense about being hesitant to cut the cards that trigger your commander. I'd think about cutting Galvanoth, I always try to play him but 5 mana for a creature that the odds are wont get a good trigger your next upkeep isnt worth it imo. ALso Izzet Chronarch, or Archaeomancer if you want to keep the izzet colours. Chemister's Trick, Charisma, Grip of Amnesia (for a better counterspell such as Counterflux), Cerebral Vortex, Nivix Guildmage, Arcane Melee, Thoughtflare. Also not sure how you take advantage of Aetherflux Reservoir? Maybe a cut.

Some cards that you might want to consider swapping your izzet creatures for are: Double Negative, Essence Backlash, Expansion / Explosion, Ionize, Magefire Wings, Suffocating Blast. Have fun brewing! I've definitely been doing alot of it over the last couple weeks haha

Alkadron on PDH(UBR) - madness? THIS. IS. VALUETOWN!

9 months ago

@Spinal_Remains:

Rhystic Study is just an absurdly good card that should be in every single good blue deck. I hate it.

The Drake combo is Peregrine Drake paired with:

• One of Ghostly Flicker or Displace, and also
• One of Archaeomancer, Scrivener, Salvager of Secrets, Izzet Chronarch, or Mnemonic Wall. (I might be forgetting one). Every time you cast the flicker spell, you get back the flicker spell and also net gain 2 mana. It's a common way for pauper EDH games to end. I hate it as well.

Joedragon3 on ExpelliARRRmus

10 months ago

Ay yo, this isnt the best list but it's what i've got being quick about it:

OUT:

• Thran Dynamo
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Pyreheart Wolf
• Izzet Chronarch
• Helium Squirter
• Goblin Electromancer
• Flux Channeler
• Forerunner of the Coalition
• Dire Fleet Daredevil
• Dire Fleet Poisoner
• Deadeye Plunderers
• Crafty Cutpurse
• Brazen Buccaneers
• Contract Killing
• March of the Drowned
• Sleep
• Hornswoggle
• Lookout's Dispersal
• Siren's Ruse
• Kefnet's Monument

IN:

• Talisman of Creativity
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Arcane Signet
• Dimir Signet
• Izzet Signet
• Rakdos Signet
• Woe Strider
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
• Grim Haruspex
• Viscera Seer
• Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• Zealous Conscripts
• River Kelpie
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Puppeteer Clique
• Glen Elendra Archmage
• Mulldrifter
• Dreadhorde Butcher
• Cytoplast Manipulator
• Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• Olivia, Mobilized for War
• Ravenous Chupacabra
• Counterspell
• Bedevil
• Domineering Will
• Vandalblast
• Last One Standing
• Decree of Pain
• Kari Zev's Expertise
• Chain Reaction

I know there are more INs than OUTs but i didn't want to just try to tell you everything to take out - it's your choices!

RNR_Gaming on PEDH spellslinger voltron

1 year ago

Sure! Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake + Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch is infinate mana and infinite casts of Ghostly Flicker .

1) have Peregrine Drake and Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch on the battlefield.

2) cast Ghostly Flicker and target those creatures

3) get your etbs. Peregrine Drake will untap 5 lands and Archaeomancer will enter and allow you to get an instant or sorcery from your graveyard; you take Ghostly Flicker

4) each time you repeat this process you should be netting 2 mana.

pthf27 on Ritual

1 year ago

I really like your list but I have two questions.

I might be missing something but what exactly are you doing after you reanimate the Chronarch? By that point you have Izzet Chronarch in play, Chronarch's and Inalla's triggers on the stack, Entomb , Reanimate , Burnt Offering in your graveyard and only left on your mana pool.

I can't see how you go from there to looping Burnt Offering and Shallow Grave without needing extra mana and/or extra life while looping Izzet Chronarch instead of Scholar of the Ages .

Also, if your loop works with Izzet Chronarch why not base your chain around Archaeomancer instead?