Melek, Izzet Paragon
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Legendary Creature — Weird Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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Kcin on Eris' Dehydrated Dragons: Just Add Cardboard

5 months ago

Rootha, Mercurial Artist

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Not sure if copying spells appeals to you but still i think worth looking into.

LTNDR on Nekusar Control/Wheels v4

9 months ago

Azoth2099 I originally had 34 lands, but not an insanely wild variety in fetches or duals that are considered "good." I mostly built from hand and havent had a group to playtest with for a small period of time. The reasons its so janky or inconsistent, is mainly price of certain cards. I have Diabolic Tutor instead of Demonic Tutor or Grim Tutor is because it costs so much.

Ive been hoarding cards for years now and have been heavily debating trading it all to pay for cards i could really use in the deck. Id like a more control based deck, more creatures and removal, as opposed to a storm deck, which is ironic considering i play Melek, Izzet Paragon. I believe the goal or decks similar would be


Drawing Conclusions

Commander / EDH Shierahath

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which i think looks fantastic and ive been drawing inspiration from it as well as

Oh look, it's another Nekusar deck.

Commander / EDH Local_Hethen

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Id be happy to discuss possible cards I might already own and what could really increase the consistency of the deck.

Coward_Token on Wilds of Eldraine

1 year ago

Kellan: Ano'thr, Equipment Commander. Anyway, still pretty neat; leans into stuff like Anduril, Flame of the West and Cathar's Call

Agatha: AFAIK she gives a discount on her own ability.

Stroke of Midnight: surprised they're going on with Generous Gift variants but I'm all for it. (I don't really get Ash's flavor tho.)

Rowan/Will: Both are neat, although I think Rowan goes into much more interesting design space, even if she has a serious case of PTSD.

Ruby: So uh she never actually used a crossbow in the story right? Just threw stuff and eventually got an ice sword?

Troyan: The most chill vedalken since Putrid Leech's buddies?

Hylda/Sharae: feels kinda weird to have these two in the same set

Greta: does making Food:s into Clues really require you to lose life?

Johann: compare the cost of Melek, Izzet Paragon. Not bad for an uncommon commander

Goose Mother: feels kinda weird that it wants you to eat its eggs

Syr Ginger: meh, kinda underwhelming? At least the anti-planeswalker ability is funny. Could have granted indestructible.

Alela: meh, goading at most one creature per opponent (well, two with double strike) is kinda underwhelming.

Cursed Courtier: you know, Splendor Mare wasn't that long ago? Oh well, enchantments/auras matters I guess. I actually hope this kind of designed gets used more, if with a bit better base P/T for the cost.

KongMing on Krark's Raging Storm

2 years ago

Disappearing Act gives you reliable evasion - even if the spell fails because Krark is on the field, the cost of the cast allows you to bounce a permanent to the safety of your hand.

Also, Reliquary Tower, so you don't get forced to discard down if you keep bouncing spells to hand.

Deekah, Fractal Theorist can grant you some token swarm, especially if you copy them with Sakashima.

You should really find room for God-Eternal Kefnet if you can, because their wording specifies you cast the copy. It's also a may effect, so it doesn't give away your draw unless you decide to cast it.

Very high CMC, but another fun target for Sakashima in this deck might be Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant.

Less-high CMC, a fun combo with Krark is Melek, Izzet Paragon. Even if you fail the coin flip when you cast a spell from the top of your library, you still get to 'draw' the card! Also potential Sakashima shenanigans.

Rootha, Mercurial Artist can help make casts a bit more reliable - if you're willing to bounce them to hand, you can copy a cast spell before Krark potentially bounces it back to hand.

Sheld on I cast at thee

2 years ago

Hey! You've given a suggestion on one of my decks, so I've thought I could return the favor. :)

I'm not sure how casual/competitive this deck is aimed to be, so I will give suggestions for both.

For a more competitive deck, I'd suggest:

The first three help you create disgusting solitaire turns while the last one may be the easiest win with Mizzix there is.

For a more casual deck, I'd suggest:

General card suggestions:

Mizzix's Mastery, Epic Experiment, Chaos Warp, Commit / Memory, Volcanic Vision, Invert / Invent, Prophetic Bolt, Frantic Search, Pore Over the Pages, Rewind, Solve the Equation and once again Bonus Round (this card is seriously good)

Also, I invite you to have a look at my old Mizzix deck and/or my up-to-date Zaffai deck for some inspiration.

I'm sorry for the long comment in case you didn't wish for suggestions. Just wanted to help. :^)

Polaris on can I tutor The Prismatic …

2 years ago

No, modal double-faced cards (MDFCs) have some specific search rules to keep them from being too broken. Specifically, when an MDFC is considered to only have the characteristics of its front face except when it's being cast, it's on the stack, or it's in play (when it will be the face you chose to play).

When an effect allows you to play/cast spells or lands of a certain type, you can play any side of an MDFC that matches the requirement (for example, casting the back of Torrent Sculptor  Flip from the top of your library with Melek, Izzet Paragon).

However, when an effect instructs you to search for a card, move a card somewhere, or put a card into play, it can only find the front face of an MDFC. Enduring Ideal can't find the back of Esika, God of the Tree  Flip because of this.

Artificer12 on Does Twinning Staff see multiple …

2 years ago

Say I have Melek, Izzet Paragon, Harmonic Prodigy (Veyran, Voice of Duality would also work) and Twinning Staff in play.

If I cast something like Brainstorm (really, any spell) off the top of my deck with Melek, I know Harmonic Prodigy will cause Melek to copy the spell twice, currently resulting in adding 3 Brainstorms to the stack.

What I'm currently unsure of is how many copies I will get off Twinning Staff. I know it's at least one, giving me 4 Brainstorms, but I suspect that the second trigger of Melek counts as a separate instance of copying, giving me another Twinning Staff copy, resulting in 5 Brainstorms being placed on the stack.

Is this the correct interpretation? Or does the second Melek trigger still count as "Copying one more times"?

Polaris on Galea and Rashmi trigger interaction …

3 years ago

It does not. Galea, Kindler of Hope's ability says whenever you cast an Equipment spell "this way," which usually means cast via the ability the reflexive trigger is linked to. See rule 607:

607.2g If an object has both a static ability and one or more triggered abilities printed on it in the same paragraph, each of those triggered abilities is linked to the static ability. Each triggered ability refers only to actions taken as a result of the static ability. See Rule 603.11.

Galea will only give the extra effect to Equipment spells cast via her static ability. If something else like Rashmi, Eternities Crafter lets you cast the card, it won't count, even if it's cast from the same place Galea lets you cast it from.

For comparison, see Melek, Izzet Paragon.

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