Vivi Ornitier by Drphaphou

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet Spellslinger Storm strategy commanded by Vivi Ornitier. Vivi acts as both a primary win condition and an explosive mana engine: each noncreature spell cast permanently increases Vivi's power and deals 1 damage to each opponent. Once Vivi accumulates power, its {0} activation converts that power into a burst of blue and red mana, propelling massive single-turn spell chains. The list integrates efficient cost reducers like Goblin Electromancer and Geist of Saint Thalia alongside powerhouse card advantage engines such as Archmage Emeritus and Will of the Jeskai. Secondary payoffs including Guttersnipe, Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran, Voice of Duality, and token producers (Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast) ensure the deck maintains table-wide pressure. Supported by dense cantrip selection and versatile stack interaction, the deck assembles its operational engine by Turn 4 and routinely executes a decisive, same-turn table burn on Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancestral Vision
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arni, Humble Scribe
  • 1 Artifist Acumen
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Cait Sith, Fortune Teller
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Emberling
  • 1 Channeled Dragonfire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Command the Stage
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Countersculpt
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cryotheory Adept
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Eject
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fulminous Forte
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Icy Reception
  • 1 Infinite Coursework
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 No Admittance
  • 1 Opera Love Song
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overwhelming Surge
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Protege's Awakening
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Interference
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Theorist's Proxy
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Transcendent Dragon
  • 1 Twinned Vision
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Voracious Bibliophile
  • 1 Waxen Shapethief
  • 1 We Say Thee Nay!
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Winter, Team Player
  • 1 Wrath of the Bloodmane
  • 1 Young Pyromancer