Vivi Master of Pings by mckinneyisaac

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger storm deck commanded by Vivi Ornitier. The primary game plan revolves around exploiting Vivi's dual abilities: scaling power with noncreature spell casts and converting that power into massive bursts of colored mana. By enchanting Vivi with Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or pairing it with Tandem Lookout, every noncreature spell cast triggers Vivi to deal 1 damage to each opponent, drawing three cards and fueling an uninterrupted storm turn. The deck leverages dense 1-mana cantrips, rituals like Jeska's Will and Seething Song, and mana-generation engines like Storm-Kiln Artist and Birgi, God of Storytelling to dig through the library and burn the table out. Backup win conditions include the compact Dualcaster Mage plus Twinflame infinite token loop and Underworld Breach escape lines. Robust free protection spells like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat ensure safe execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wooded Foothills