Seize Control

Format: Commander

Commander: Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Seize Control is an Izzet spellslinger preconstructed deck centered on Mizzix of the Izmagnus. The primary game plan revolves around casting instants and sorceries of increasing mana value to accumulate experience counters on the player. Because these experience counters permanently reduce the generic mana costs of all future instants and sorceries, the deck rapidly transitions from casting modest cantrips to chaining massive high-impact spells for only their colored mana requirements. Once Mizzix establishes a high counter count, the deck digs aggressively through its library using scalable draw spells like Blue Sun's Zenith and Stroke of Genius. It ultimately closes out games by overwhelming opponents with game-ending spells such as an overloaded Mizzix's Mastery, a kicked Rite of Replication, swarming Drake tokens from Talrand, Sky Summoner, or a lethal multikicked Comet Storm. While vulnerable to commander removal and an inherently high mana curve, permanent experience counters give the deck resilient late-game mana explosive potential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Act of Aggression
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aethersnatch
  • 1 Arjun, the Shifting Flame
  • 1 Awaken the Sky Tyrant
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Broodbirth Viper
  • 1 Call the Skybreaker
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Charmbreaker Devils
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Desperate Ravings
  • 1 Dominate
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Echoing Truth
  • 1 Epic Experiment
  • 1 Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Firemind's Foresight
  • 1 Gigantoplasm
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Illusory Ambusher
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Lone Revenant
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Melek, Izzet Paragon
  • 1 Meteor Blast
  • 1 Mirror Match
  • 1 Mizzium Mortars
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Retrieval
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seal of the Guildpact
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Steam Augury
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Reflection
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urza's Rage
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vivid Crag
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Warchief Giant
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Word of Seizing
  • 1 Worn Powerstone