Niv-Mizzen't by msnmllr

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is built around Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, leveraging an Aristocrats and lifegain chassis to generate massive card advantage and steady life drain. Early turns are dedicated to establishing mana rocks, token producers like Skrelv's Hive and Dreadhorde Invasion, and sacrifice engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Priest of Forgotten Gods. Once Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel lands on Turn 6, every lifegain trigger translates into optional card draw at the cost of life, creating an explosive hand refill mechanism. The deck features potent removal and board wipes, including Toxic Deluge and Anguished Unmaking, alongside asymmetric taxes from Blind Obedience and Liesa, Shroud of Dusk. Win conditions include compounding drain from Blood Artist effects, a dominant Bolas's Citadel engine, or an accelerated Approach of the Second Sun loop facilitated by Niv-Mizzet's card draw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 End of the Hunt
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hanged Executioner
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 Loyal Warhound
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Acolyte
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Tithe Drinker
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat