Current CMD

Commander / EDH* UR (Izzet)

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Instant (33)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Consider
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Magmatic Sinkhole
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Prismari Command
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Snapback
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Stern Dismissal
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x You Come to a River

Land (31)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 11x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Prismari Campus
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Letter of Acceptance
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

Creature (4)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Trinket Mage

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Clear the Mind
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Mystic Subdual
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Parallel Thoughts
• 1x Vessel of Volatility

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

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Current CMD Deck

Combo List

• Primary{U}{U}{U}{U}{R}{R}{R}: Niv-Mizzet, Parun + Curiosity/Ophidian Eye/Tandem Lookout = draw entire deck + kill 2/3 opponents and kill some key creatures your opponents may control

• then once the entire deck is in hand Lotus Petal {U}, use the {U}, Jeweled Lotus hold priority and An Offer You Can't Refuse your own lotus for 2 treasures then exile Simian Spirit Guide for {R} and 2 Treasures. play Glint-Horn Buccaneer. Now end the turn and discard cards down to 7 card hand size Glint-Horn Buccaneer will deal 1 damage to EACH opponent for every card discarded

• secondary {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}: Cast Twinflame targeting (another creature you control) hold priority again and cast Dualcaster Mage targeting the Twinflame. Twinflame copy the Dualcaster Mage creating another Dualcaster Mage with haste, use the new dualcasters ability when it enters to copy Twinflame again to copy the Dualcaster Mage again for infinite 2/2s with haste, attack

• secondary {1}{R}{R}{U} + more then 7 cards in hand: cast Glint-Horn Buccaneer and Curiosity/Ophidian Eye/Tandem Lookout on it, now with 8 or more cards in hand end the turn, when you end the turn you discard to hand size (7). since you discarded a card Glint-Horn Buccaneer goes and deals 1 damage to each opponent, Curiosity then sees that and you draw 1 card for each opponent you damaged. now thanks to rule 514.3a we get another end step . this means we get to discard to hand size again and since we just drew from Curiosity we will have more then 7. so discard which triggers Glint-Horn Buccaneer, which makes us draw, then discard to hand size again and again till everyone is dead.

turn 1 win

hand

Island, Jeweled Lotus, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Sol Ring, Dualcaster Mage, Twinflame, Simian Spirit Guide, Treasonous Ogre. yes, its 8 cards just draw it off the top kekw.

combo

Island{U} into Jeweled Lotus hold priority and An Offer You Can't Refuse your own lotus for 2 treasures, we make {R}{R}, Sol Ring {R}{2}, exile Simian Spirit Guide from hand {R}{R}{2}, cast Treasonous Ogre pay 15 life for {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}, cast Twinflame targeting Treasonous Ogre hold priority again and cast Dualcaster Mage targeting the Twinflame. Twinflame copy the Dualcaster Mage creating another Dualcaster Mage with haste, use that to copy Twinflame again for infinate 2/2s with haste

how to use the harder to use cards

• Izzet Boilerworks = {T} to add {U} AND {R}, the land also returns to your HAND
• Trinket Mage = Jeweled Lotus or Sol Ring. mostly lotus as it enables you to combo 3 turns earlier
• Magmatic Sinkhole/Dig Through Time/Treasure Cruise = Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) so when playing any of these cards 99.9% of the time these cards should be played for 1-2 mana and exiling the maximum amount of cards possible
• Mystical Tutor/Solve the Equation = combo cards Gamble -> Curiosity or Twinflame. situational answers like Vandalblast, Pyroclasm, Stern Dismissal, Dispel are also good options to be aware of, less common but Valakut Awakening  /Dig Through Time/Windfall to fix an overall shitty hand can be alright too.
• Unwind = if you get to untap a Izzet Boilerworks you actually untap 4 mana worth of land for 3 mana which is pog
• An Offer You Can't Refuse = you can counter you own spell for 2 treasures
• Parallel Thoughts = a very difficult and risky card to play correctly and at some point it should be cut but it doe shave a quirky line of text on it "If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you removed into your hand." which means post niv combo, if you have to draw a card but you would die if you did you can instead use the Parallel Thoughts pile, even if its empty, then you never die XD. as for the piles. they should idealy contain 4/5 from Brainstorm/Valakut Awakening  /Faithless Looting/Treasure Cruise/Windfall. These ensure that if Parallel Thoughts lives for 1-2 turns you get to draw the entire pile (and have card draw to spare) from there, the remaining 2-3 cards are more tricky, combo cards like Glint-Horn Buccaneer, Twinflame + Dualcaster Mage, Curiosity/Ophidian Eye/Tandem Lookout (only ever 1 per pile). Dispel or Counterspell to protect the combo, Pyroclasm to wipe a board Jeweled Lotus to accelerate a niv out. You Come to a River to bounce your own Parallel Thoughts once the pile is empty so you can replay it and get a fresh 7 cards for mega value.
• Scroll Rack = put X cards from your hand in a small pile (careful of the order), then draw X cards, then put the small pile ontop of your deck. this can be done at instant speed, useful to use it to dig for emergency counterspell or fix your hand at then end of your opponent's turn.

Basic play patterns/tips

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Always always always cast instants at the end of the opponent before your turn rather than on your turn as it gives you a better knowledge of what to do. no point getting a Curiosity at sorcery speed in preparation for when you cast niv next turn, passing and your opponent plays a Drannith Magistrate or try to win the game with their combo when if you held mana you could have used Counterspell. The only exceptions ill accept for you casting instants at sorcery speed is if you are going to fall behind if you don't and you need an act of desperation or if you win the game ofcourse, eg Mystical Tutor for Pyroclasm on top then Serum Visions to draw it and board wipe. didnt draw a land for the turn Brainstorm/Anticipate effect to find the land and play it. niv enchanted with Curiosity and also a pesky Kenrith's Transformation stopping you from winning Stern Dismissal the transformation and cast another spell to start the combo off and win. Lightning Bolt to kill a Hermit Druid that didnt have haste before that player gets to untap with it.

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pay attention to what your opponents are doing/have in play/mana/cards in hand.

• play slow and develop your board with mana rocks and creatures
• leave open mana for instant speed counter/kill/draw
• answer their threats asap and try build-up card advantage
• wait till you can combo with counterspell backup,
• play the combo as fast as you can and hope they don't have any responses.
• just run niv out and hope for the best

the deck's main strength is the ability to pivot between these playstyles depending on what's happening and what stage the game is in. there will be games where the options you chose for one game will win you the game but if you do the same thing later it you may lose the game for it. one game you may win by waiting for counterspells+combo to show up and you play the combo and protect it and win. then the next game you have the combo in hand but pass to wait for counters your opponent then plays his own combo and wins the game before you can interact.

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Also sometimes you make the perfect plays and lose, that doesn't mean it's incorrect, just means you got unlucky. same visa vera, you can make shit plays and somehow win, this does not mean its the correct play, doesn't mean its right, means you got lucky. now stop brainstorming on turn 1 XD.

cards to add/ remove

(ive tried to keep the too add pile budget-friendly, Lotus Petal and Pact of Negation are the only cards over $5 on the list :) )

to add: Tandem Lookout(redundancy on combo cards), 2xIsland(more blue then red since blue cards can help you find mountains), Simian Spirit Guide(0->1 mana), Glint-Horn Buccaneer(the correct card to include NOT Laboratory Maniac or Clear the Mind PLEASE), Lotus Petal(0->1 mana), Rite of Flame(1->2 mana), Gitaxian Probe(start combo from 0 mana), Treasure Cruise(better delve spell then Magmatic Sinkhole), Windfall(hand sucks or opponent has scary hand), Lonely Sandbar/Forgotten Cave(Desert of the Mindful but better), Pact of Negation(0 mana counterspell, means you can attempt to win the game with no mana left up you can have protection from removal or counterspell. also if you do combo and draw you entire deck even if you have no mana left over you can still interact with people, very good in a pinch too)

to remove: 2xMountain(less red mana since red cards have a harder time finding blue mana), Blasphemous Act slow, Magmatic Sinkhole(2 delve spells max per deck and there are better options), Desert of the Mindful(Lonely Sandbar/Forgotten Cave are 1/2 the cost to cycle), Clear the Mind(card sucks poo >:( Glint-Horn Buccaneer better)

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 39 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.33
Tokens	Copy Clone, Treasure