Nivix Guildmage

Creature — Human Wizard

{1}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

{2}{U}{R}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Legality

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
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (42)

Taillas on Burning Frogs

1 year ago

Made several changes recently to improve the deck. Nivix Guildmage was replaced with Ral, Storm Conduit, who does the same thing without ongoing mana costs. The number of Enigma Drakes has been increased to 4 to take advantage of the large number of instants in the deck. Primal Amulet  ^Flip was replaced with Dual Casting, which provides copy-power much faster. Flame Javelin was also added for situations where the deck needs a little more damage, such as sniping planeswalkers or finishing off players. Experimental Overload was added as a late-game play to take advantage of casting.

enpc on Nivix Guildmage as a second …

2 years ago

Thanks for the comments - I have been on the fence about he includion, however I think I need more data to know if a backup is actually needed. If the case is yes, I might look into some other outlets as has been pointed out, while Nivix Guildmage fulfils a bunch of conditions, he is very narrow.

RambIe on Nivix Guildmage as a second …

2 years ago

Based on the information provided my vote would be no.
if you need a redundancy for kenny i think there is better dump draw options
and if its only able to work with reversal for a mana loop it seems like a wasted slot

however if you other cards that Nivix Guildmage could combo with i would change my vote. i mean i for one think its always cool to mana dump into infinite copys of Lightning Bolt

enpc on Nivix Guildmage as a second …

2 years ago

Most people are familiar with the classic Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal infinite mana combo, however I have been wondering about running Nivix Guildmage as a backup to this in my Kenrith, the Returned King deck (King me! King me!). The main reason for this is that the deck has a very heavy reliance on Kenrith once it has assembled infinite mana to either draw to a win condition or pump creatures and turn sideways. In fact, every combo based win condition has to go through Kenrith.

This is fine for the most part, as having him as my commander means that I should have access to him most of the time (especially with infinite mana available). however, the thought of including Nivix Guildmage was two fold - the first was that he acts as an infinite mana combo piece with Dramatic Reversal, but also becomes an infinite mana sink to either copy any other spells in hand as well as loot the entire deck (which with infinite mana and Elixir of Immortality can form other win conditions).

The question is, is it worth making a slot for Nivix Guildmage, or are the odds of not having access to Kenrith low enough that it's not needed?

enpc on Help Me Revamp This Deck

2 years ago

I don't think you need to protect yourself as much as you need to make the deck faster. You have a lot of really bulky cards that could instead be more ramp/card draw. Having an average CMC of 3.57 is really high for a deck you want to be competitive, especially looking at your distribution.

You also have a very low win condition/ enabler desity. This means that while you have two primary win condition lines, you have basically zero in the way of substitutions for those. I know that Lithoform Engine can fill in for Isochron Scepter, but you're not running more support from stuff like Nivix Guildmage and Turnabout or any other kinds of overlapping combos. Having more redundancy in these enabler pieces means that you drastically increase your chances of assembling a combo becuase you don't need that one specific card.

MagicMarc on Love Affair of Ramirez and Jeska

3 years ago

Hello, I like the deck and have a couple of comments. I agree that your maybeboard contains some dubious cards except for Narset, Parter of Veils . Here static ability is the only reason you need her. And you should need her. Because she makes all of your wheel effects one-sided. Having one-sided Wheels can win games. I would drop nearly any other card in your deck for Narset considering how many wheels you have.Now about the others:

Nivix Guildmage : This card does not bring much to the deck. It's first ability only interacts with your pirate commander really but is a draw two while you are attacking with the blue pirate. You already have a lot of rummage and wheels going on. It's copy ability matters more for single target or usefully repeatable spells. Almost all of your spells do something big and copying them doesn't do anything better than what those cards already do. Mostly only Abrade and your rummage cards can take advantage of this card. I don't feel that's a good enough reason to include it. But it may be better than some of your other stuff currently in the deck.
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries : This is a win more card that relies on you emptying your library to win. You already have many routes to winning that don't need an empty library to win. The +1 ability is good with your commander and some of your creatures but does that make it good enough to include? Maybe not.
Laboratory Maniac : This is not the right deck for this card. It needs to be built around to be a consistant win condition. When not built around, I would skip it in favor of cards that don't distort your theme. Don't get me wrong, its a good card just might not be a good fit.
Teferi's Ageless Insight : I think this goes in line with the Jace and maniac. If you want to go this route, add all 3 to the deck. Otherwise, to trigger it you are already getting extra draws from another source so don't really need it. And you have to be doing something with another card to trigger it at all so by itself it adds nothing to your game state. Though if you do go with the Jace/Maniac route I would include this for the raw draw and discard power whenever you wheel.

There is a card in the current decklist I was curious about. What does Treasure Nabber bring to this deck? I don't see a sac outlet so I am assuming you just use it primarily to steal big/impactful stuff to use it for a turn? Is that a meta call? It seems a weak add when compared to the rest of the deck. I think this card is awesome and with sac outlets and ways to make mana dorks artifacts can be insane in a game. But I don't feel it merits a slot in this deck. You may have a great reason I overlooked to keep it in the deck and I am interested in understanding the inclusion.

Spirits on Mizzix, the Storm EDH

3 years ago

I'm doing a testing cycle with Izzet Guildmage and Nivix Guildmage out. I feel they've eroded in value since Training Grounds came out.

I suspect See the Truth or Mystic Remora will likely become Izzet Guildmage the ability to tutor Izzet Guildmage and Reset is just so high.

enpc on Isochron scepter and dramatic reversal …

3 years ago

Monomanamaniac: Unfortunately because you are casting spells, it does mean that dramatic scepter is suseptible to both ability hate but also storm hate, which has gotten me a few times before. But in a vacuum, it's one of the more compact combos.

I think the thing which makes it so strong is that it's such a low cost to entry on the combo - you only need 4 mana available to play and activate scepter which is super low. I used to run Tooth and Nail for Deadeye Navigator / Palinchron (with a bit of Rune-Scarred Demon enabling) in a Damia, Sage of Stone list which was good, but you always had to generate so much mana to so you could combo out with counterspell backup. With Scepter, a Mana Vault or Grim Monolith basically pays for the combo by itself and makes you mana positive.

The other thing I like with the combo is that there are replaceable pieces for it. I run the combo in my Thrasios, Triton Hero deck (alsongside Tymna) and I have Sigil Tracer who with Thrasios lets you copy Reversal on the stack. You can also use Nivix Guildmage or Izzet Guildmage in this role. But I was even toying with hte idea of using Isochron Scepter + Vitalize + Karn, Silver Golem as a janky combo in Selvala, Explorer Returned. I know it's not a great combo but it shows how you can adapt it so easily.