Vivi by DeckCheckMTG2025

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Vivi Ornitier is an Izzet storm/spellslinger commander: every noncreature spell puts a +1/+1 counter on him and pings each opponent, while his {0} ability converts his power into red/blue mana for the same turn - a growing ritual in the command zone. The deck is a classic storm shell around him: a dozen one-mana cantrips for velocity, a ritual and mana-engine core (Desperate Ritual, Birgi, God of Storytelling, Runaway Steam-Kin, Storm-Kiln Artist, Grinning Ignus, Jeska's Will), recursion extenders (Past in Flames, Underworld Breach, Lier, Disciple of the Drowned), and multiple storm payoffs (Grapeshot, Brain Freeze, Aetherflux Reservoir, Aria of Flame, Thousand-Year Storm, Ral, Storm Conduit). Compact two-card combos - Isochron Scepter plus Dramatic Reversal, Reiterate plus Desperate Ritual, Niv-Mizzet, Parun plus Curiosity - supply deterministic kills. The true engines are the spell-matters permanents; Vivi accelerates the go-turn and converts long chains into direct damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Aria of Flame
  • 1 Avishkar Raceway
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Quicksilver Elemental
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier