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Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov lifegain and attrition control deck built around Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel. The strategy leverages early lifegain enablers like Soul Warden and Authority of the Consuls alongside low-cost ramp to deploy Niv-Mizzet on Turn 5. Once the commander is active, every point of life gained can be converted into raw card draw, dramatically accelerating card flow into the deck's primary win conditions. The deck seeks to close games either through an infinite life-drain loop utilizing Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond variants like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or through explosive draw engines like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. With an exceptional suite of spot removal, board sweepers, and passive life-drain triggers, the deck controls creature combat and opponent aggression while steadily sculpting a lethal board state. Although it lacks fast tutors, its card-draw engine reliably digs through the 99 to locate decisive finishers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Koth of the Homestead
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sickening Dreams
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow