Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard

Flying

Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

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Discussion (49)

multimedia on Malcolm Kediss $60 Budget EDH

4 weeks ago

Hey, you're welcome.

Temple of the False God is not a good land here because you're not playing any land ramp nor should you want to with Izzet and treasures. With no land ramp then Temple can't tap to make mana until your turn five or six at the earliest and that's if you make a land drop each turn which consistently doesn't happen. It's unplayable when you have two drop and three drop Commanders who you would like to consistently cast before turn five.

Because of treasures you also don't need the small colorless ramp from Temple turn five or after. Consider Frostboil Snarl ? It could replace Temple since it's another budget Izzet dual land that has interaction with basic lands to potentially ETB untapped.

Hedron Archive is another cut to consider because you don't need a four drop ramp source when your Commander can make ramp with treasures. Buccaneer could replace Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind since it's a Pirate combo. Crew could replace Neutralize since it's the least good counterspell here.

WhiteLippedWizard333 on Wheely Snakes

1 month ago

Pikobyte I'm going to my LGS today to pick up Xenagos, the Reveler , Minds Aglow , Mass Hysteria , Guardian Augmenter , Whirlpool Warrior , and Spellskite . I think all of these are going to be great additions to this deck for the time being until I can find another Phyrexian Altar to slot in. I have one in Resurrection Insurrection but can't justify pulling out to put into Wheely Snakes just yet, I'd like to playtest with it first. Xenagos will replace Fevered Visions . I feel like the mana advantage that Xenagos will provide outweighs the extra card draw and 2 damage. I rarely play Fevered Visions anyway, I usually get it later in a game and have no need for the forced card draw since I'm usually wheeling by t4 t5 or t6. Minds Aglow will replace Prosperity, because exactly what you said in a previous comment. Mass Hysteria will replace Temur Ascendancy . It's easier to cast, and is the same haste enabler. I only have 4 creatures that would even trigger the 2nd ability of Temur Ascendancy so its gotta go! Guardian Augmenter and Spellskite will replace Niv-Mizzet, Parun and Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind . The Niv-Mizzets are hard to cast so I find more often than not, I don't cast them because I have a better option in hand that isn't going to cost nearly as much to cast. They are great when they are on the field, but I feel like protection and +2/+2 for Xyris is going to benefit me more often than the Nivs would. Lastly, I think Whirlpool Warrior is going to replace either Psychosis Crawler or Tribute to the Wild . Both are good in their own right. Psychosis crawler can be massive after a wheel or 2 and can put down some serious damage and Tribute to the wild is just fun, especially if an opponent's only artifact or enchantment is a combo or deck engine piece. Thats going to be the hardest cut decision on this round. Thank you again for your suggestions!

Caerwyn on Nekusar - Hurtin' Wheel Bad

3 months ago

The best way to keep from dying so quickly is to kill everyone else faster. To that end, consider:

• More wheel spells such as Dark Deal , Molten Psyche , Reforge the Soul , and Wheel of Fortune (budget permitting).
• Glistening Oil to provide another source of Infect (you'll kill them with wheels before the negative effect takes your Nekusar off the field).
• Dangerous combos that synergize with your deck strategy. Bloodchief Ascension is easy to activate with your commander and combos with Mindcrank to produce infinite mill. Curiosity is dangerous when placed on Nekusar, and can create a loop when placed on Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (who also combos well with your commander).

Second way to keep from losing: Better control.

• You are in Blue and should be running more counterspells.
• You should have more spot removal that can destroy problematic cards.
• Helm of the Ghastlord combos with Nekusar and a wheel to lock opponents out of the game (they can only play instants before the Ghastlord triggers resolve and cause them to discard every card they ever draw).
• Sigil of Sleep on Nekusar turns each wheel into a mini-Cyclonic Rift.

Add more ramp artifacts so you can get online quicker and fire off multiple wheels per turn.

Add Library of Leng - it allows you to use wheels to engineer a better hand by sending to graveyard what you do not need and keeping what you do.

Finally, you should reduce your average CMC substantially. A lot of your high-costed cards do not have particularly useful synergies to your deck--they might be decent cards in a vacuum, but they really are not great with your particular strategy. Plague Wind , Tidespout Tyrant , all of your 5-mana spells, all of your seven-mana spells, Rise from the Tides , and Roil Elemental are all things you can cut to make room for more synergistic options.

libraryjoy on More Cards

3 months ago

Mono-blue counterspell is not a great option for multiplayer, simply because it lacks the resources to "counter" spells by multiple opponents. If you want to build a multiplayer deck, focus on strategies that affect all opponents, like Propaganda . You may want to use blue in conjunction with another color to get benefits from that as well. My suggestion when you want to build a deck is find a card you want to use. A card you think would allow you to win the game. In mono-blue, maybe something like a Kraken or Sphinx, or a specific enchantment, like Favorable Winds . Then look for cards around that strategy. If you want to use Kefnet as your central strategy, you would focus hard on card draw and making sure you have unlimited hand size. In that instance, you may also want to include cards that punish your opponents when you draw a card, like Keranos, God of Storms , Niv-Mizzet, Parun , Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind , Thundering Djinn , or Psychosis Crawler .

Last_Laugh on Top 10 multicolored cards at …

3 months ago

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Gidgetimer on Veyran, Voice of Duality, what …

3 months ago

Your first two points are correct, So I am not going to address anything you said in them. I will address the rest of the question in the order the ideas are presented. Though it isn't going to be a nice ordered list, because some of your numbered points are mixing cards that operate differently.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind triggers off of drawing cards, not casting spells. The effect of the spell triggered Niv, not the casting of the spell, so Veyran, Voice of Duality has no interaction. Baral is the same. As is anything that doesn't trigger from casting a spell.

No cards in MtG need an extra cost to trigger. They trigger and go on the stack, and then have an optional cost to have an effect. Lunar Mystic and Mirari will trigger twice. You can pay as each trigger resolves to get the effect. You can pay for none, one, or both.

An instant or sorcery that triggers Knowledge Pool or Eye of the Storm will trigger them twice. Knowledge Pool requires you to exile the spell to have an effect, so only the first to resolve will have an effect, though there will be two triggers. Eye of the Storm doesn't require you to have exiled the spell to get the effect, so both triggers will have an effect.

Primal Wellspring and Pyromancer's Goggles trigger off of casting an instant or sorcery and so will trigger twice and make two copies.

Spellweaver Volute is an interesting case. I will look up the rules to copying objects that have left the expected zone and get back to you on it. My gut feeling is that 2 copies of the instant will be made.

cooknathan on Veyran, Voice of Duality, what …

3 months ago

I'm probably not the only one confused with which triggers Veyran, Voice of Duality works with.

603.1. Triggered abilities have a trigger condition and an effect. They are written as “[When/Whenever/At] [trigger condition or event], [effect]. [Instructions (if any).]”

1. So cards like Guttersnipe or cards with magecraft clearly work (she triggers her own magecraft), cool, no problem.

2. There seems to be a consensus that cards with prowess and similar ( Stormchaser Mage , Aetherflux Reservoir , Wavebreak Hippocamp ) also work so long as it triggers with an instant or sorcery and not another card type. Ok, so maybe the permanent's trigger condition does not need to say 'instant' or 'sorcery'.

3. What about if something like Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind was triggered with a Brainstorm ? Does the permanent's trigger condition need to say 'cast' too? What 'causes' the triggered ability to trigger? Is it the casting or the drawing? Same question with Baral, Chief of Compliance .

4. What about cards that need an extra cost to trigger Lunar Mystic or Mirari ? Do we (or can we, or can't we) pay the extra cost when Veyran triggers it an additional time?

5. What about cards like Knowledge Pool or Eye of the Storm which also requires the card to exile?

6. What about Primal Wellspring or Pyromancer's Goggles do you get two copies?

7. If Runaway Steam-Kin has two counters and you cast a red instant, does it end up with four counters? Does Aria of Flame or Sphinx-Bone Wand get one or two counters? How about Mizzix of the Izmagnus ?

8. How does Spellweaver Volute work? DO you get two copies of the same instant?

9. I think that covers everything. If anyone has any weird edge cases, this might be a good place to post it. Do any of these cards not work for some reason? Sunbird's Invocation , Jori En, Ruin Diver .

Thanks!

legendofa on Breaking Arjun

3 months ago

How do you want to win with this deck? Cards like Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Psychosis Crawler just hurt people. The Locust God creates a giant pile of tokens.

Also, if you haven't already, think about cards like Chromatic Star and Chromatic Sphere that replace their card and mana investment.