Orzhov Niv by Chains96

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is commanded by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, leveraging life gain and life loss triggers into overwhelming card advantage and lethal drain combos. The primary strategy combines early mana rocks and defensive tax pieces like Authority of the Consuls and Blind Obedience with powerful mid-game engines. By Turn 4, the deck establishes a stable foundation using engines like Black Market Connections or combo anchors like Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into critical onset by resolving complementary combo pieces such as Walking Ballista or Exquisite Blood. Once active, these two-card loops immediately eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. The deck defends its execution with protective tools like Silence, Voice of Victory, and Dawn's Truce, while disrupting opponents with efficient spot removal including Swords to Plowshares and Despark. Even without its commander, redundant infinite win conditions in the 99 ensure resilient, independent paths to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peace of Mind
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Walking Ballista