Niv-Mizzet, Ruiner of Plans

Commander / EDH Budget Control Spellslinger UR (Izzet)

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Multi Lands (12)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Ferrous Lake
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Training Center

Removal (6)

• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Abrade
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Impact Resonance
• 1x Snap

Card Draw (4)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight

Fetch Lands (4)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x Warped Landscape

Mass Bounce (3)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Aetherspouts

Token Generators (3)

• 1x Third Path Iconoclast
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner

Ramp (12)

• 1x Traveler's Amulet
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Izzet Locket

Wheels (6)

• 1x Winds of Change
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame

Copy / Steal (4)

• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Traitorous Greed
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Mana Sources (4)

• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Vadrik, Astral Archmage
• 1x Mana Geyser

Protection (3)

• 1x Clout of the Dominus
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Bolt Bend

Special Lands (1)

• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Tutors (1)

• 1x Step Through

Commander (1)

Counterspells (6)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Wizard's Retort
• 1x Rewind

Board Wipes (4)

• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Asinine Antics

Doublers (4)

• 1x Harmonic Prodigy
• 1x Twinferno
• 1x Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1x Double Vision

Finishers (3)

• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim

Basic Lands (19)

• 10x Island
• 9x Mountain

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Removal (24)

• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 1x By Force
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Gift of Tusks
• 1x Mind Games
• 1x Mutiny
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Suspend
• 1x Cleansing Wildfire
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Dragon's Fire
• 1x Mass Diminish
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Snap
• 1x Beacon Bolt
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Fight with Fire
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Soul Sear
• 1x Visions of Ruin
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Copy / Steal (9)

• 1x Wrangle
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Lullmage's Domination
• 1x Seize the Spotlight
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Hate Mirage
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Stolen Goods
• 1x Desertion

Wheels (8)

• 1x Flux
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Whirlpool Drake
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller

Bounce Spells (2)

• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Submerge

Combat Tricks (2)

• 1x Blustersquall
• 1x Fists of Flame

Graveyard Recycling (2)

• 1x Clear the Mind
• 1x Learn from the Past

Ramp (2)

• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sphere of the Suns

Damage Spells (14)

• 1x Fireball
• 1x Galvanic Blast
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Play with Fire
• 1x Purphoros's Intervention
• 1x Shock
• 1x Incinerate
• 1x Lightning Strike
• 1x Magma Jet
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Volcanic Geyser
• 1x Arc Lightning
• 1x Fiery Temper
• 1x Prismari Command

Support Creatures (11)

• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Gelectrode
• 1x Irencrag Pyromancer
• 1x Crackling Drake
• 1x Kinetic Augur
• 1x Pyre Hound
• 1x Thunder Drake
• 1x Hypersonic Dragon
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Book Devourer
• 1x Octavia, Living Thesis

Mana Sources (9)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Rowan, Scholar of Sparks  ^Flip
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Brass's Bounty

Counterspells (6)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Negate
• 1x Remand
• 1x Remove Soul

Protection (5)

• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Voyager Staff
• 1x You See a Guard Approach
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Lazotep Plating

Multi Lands (2)

• 1x Volatile Fjord
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Too Expensive (2)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Jeska's Will

Token Generators (12)

• 1x Dragon Fodder
• 1x Improbable Alliance
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Stolen by the Fae
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Invade the City
• 1x Experimental Overload
• 1x Goblin Wizardry
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Talrand's Invocation
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Clone Legion

Board Wipes (11)

• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Rebuild
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Storm's Wrath
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Pirate's Prize
• 1x Pore Over the Pages
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x The Magic Mirror

Doublers (8)

• 1x Doublecast
• 1x Dual Strike
• 1x Galvanic Iteration
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Radiate
• 1x Arcane Bombardment
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Tutors (4)

• 1x Burning Wish
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Invert / Invent

Finishers (2)

• 1x Mnemonic Deluge
• 1x Temporal Trespass

Mass Bounce (1)

• 1x River's Rebuke

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Gameplay Mission: Control threats on the board with cheap instants and sorceries as you ping your opponents with damage from Niv-Mizzet. Use Niv’s card draw ability to constantly replenish your hand while you make deals and use politics to decide who and what to target. Fill up your graveyard and hang onto wheels for big late-game effects.

Power Cards (>$10): None

Sleeper Cards: Clout of the Dominus, Teferi’s Ageless Insight, Mystic Reflection, Arcane Denial, Asinine Antics

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Possible Edits

ADD N Removal, W Ricochet

Figure out the balance of blue defense, red damage, and creatures / tokens (play more games first)

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During Game

Mizzix's Mastery: "Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery."

Look for opportunities to ping creatures with Niv when they take other sources of damage

Don't cast removal spells as soon as a threat enters the battlefield - opponents might choose to attack one another

Be careful not to make enemies, but be OK to respond when someone comes at you

Consider using Aetherize or Aetherspouts when other creatures attack an opponent -after- combat damage step

Use Step Through to tutor for H Prodigy, Veyran, or Vadrix

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Stats

26 instants + 12 sorceries

Vadrix and Goblin Electromancer's ramp effects can help with 82% of the instants and sorceries (31 out of 38)

2:1 ratio of instants to sorceries (original deck had closer to 50/50)

Average mana value is slightly overstated since some cards can be cast for less than their stated cost (e.g. Step Through, Blasphemous Act, Wizard's Retort); a few will be played with their Overload or Kicker cost

3 lands that ETB tapped = 8% of total

1 colorless non-fetch land (3% of total)

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Deck Notes

Focused primarily on instants vs. sorceries because of how much the game can change on each opponent's turn

Looked for spells that are cheaper (mana), better (value), or faster (instants) than original selections

Uses lots of ramp to help with Niv's casting cost and because available mana for spells will typically be more limited than the number of cards in hand

Currently running 36 lands instead of 37-40 since Niv's card draw helps with land drops in mid to late game

Commander's Quarters has lots of wheel effects, infinite loops, and deathtouch combos for Niv Mizzet that aren't included in this deck

Deck also doesn't include Reliquary Tower or similar cards to keep focus on cheaper 1-2 CMC spells; deck also has spells that benefit from discarding instants and sorceries into graveyard (e.g. Octavia, Rise from the Tides)

Doesn't currently use tutors for instants & sorceries since Niv's card draw can be used to cycle through cards to find the right answer in most cases

Some spells don't work with doublers (e.g. counterspells) but deck isn't heavily focused on doubling / copying

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Card Notes

Niv's damage effect can also help with creature and planeswalker removal

Counterspells can be used for enchantments or commander protection

Damage spells and Niv can be used for addl creature or planeswalker removal; bounce spells are another version of removal

Mana Geyser used to enable multiple spells on a single turn or one large X spell

Mystic Reflection can be used to copy a good creature or to turn opponents' next creature(s) into bad ones

Aetherspouts can be used for a single attacker b/c it gets around hexproof (especially helpful against Voltron decks)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Cursed, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Soldier, Spirit 2/2 U
Folders	Niv, Commander deck ideas