Niv-Mizzet Lifegain (Copy) by user1119637

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov lifegain control and combo deck commanded by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel. It operates by establishing early mana acceleration and low-cost lifegain engines like Soul Warden, Authority of the Consuls, and Creeping Bloodsucker. On Turn 4 to 5, it deploys the commander to turn every life point gained into massive card draw at parity. The deck leverages this explosive card velocity to dig through its library while suppressing opposing strategies with versatile spot removal, board sweepers like Toxic Deluge, and asymmetric taxes such as Kambal, Consul of Allocation and Blind Obedience. The primary win condition is an infinite life-drain combo pairing Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, which drains all opponents from full health to zero in a single turn cycle. Alternate win conditions including Aetherflux Reservoir and Approach of the Second Sun provide redundant avenues to close games cleanly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Eriette's Lullaby
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare's Thirst
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Righteous Confluence
  • 1 Sanctify
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Surgical Precision
  • 1 Survival Cache
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Wandering Emperor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Union of the Third Path
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vraska's Contempt
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow