Ghost counsel by user9521322

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov lifegain combo-control build commanded by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging incidental lifegain triggers from Soul sisters, enchantments, and the commander to generate immense card velocity through Niv-Mizzet's life-for-cards triggered ability. With access to deep card flow, the deck accelerates into deterministic two-card infinite drain combos pairing Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, Marauding Blight-Priest, or Starscape Cleric. Once both halves are on the battlefield, any instance of lifegain or opponent life loss immediately drains all three opponents to zero in the same turn. The deck is reinforced by efficient Orzhov removal like Swords to Plowshares and Anguished Unmaking, asymmetric tempo stax from Blind Obedience and Authority of the Consuls, and alternative engines such as Bolas's Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani Resolute
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose