Vivi

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet spellslinger storm deck commanded by Vivi Ornitier. The primary game plan revolves around enchanting Vivi Ornitier with damage-triggered card-drawing auras such as Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or pairing it with Tandem Lookout. Because Vivi deals 1 damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell, each cheap cantrip draws three cards while growing Vivi's power and draining the table. Once Vivi accumulates power, its free mana ability produces a massive burst of blue and red mana mid-turn. This mana fuels continuous chains of low-cost instants and sorceries, supported by velocity engines like Birgi, God of Storytelling and Storm-Kiln Artist. The deck closes games in a single explosive turn by burning opponents out with cumulative Vivi triggers, Guttersnipe, Coruscation Mage, Grapeshot, or a lethal Crackle with Power. Robust countermagic, hexproof equipment, and board bounce provide defense and disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Wizard's Staff