Spellslinger 8/21 by mase

Format: Commander

Commander: Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet Spellslinger Storm strategy commanded by Mizzix of the Izmagnus. The game plan revolves around casting instants and sorceries of ascending mana values to accumulate experience counters on the player. As generic costs decrease dramatically, large draw spells such as Pull from Tomorrow and Mind Spiral become hyper-efficient gas engines. The deck converts high spell velocity into direct table-wide damage using burn pingers like Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, Coruscation Mage, and Firebrand Archer, or machine-gunning through Searing Touch with Buyback. Mana engines like Storm-Kiln Artist and Jeska's Will generate the colored mana necessary to sustain uninterrupted chains. Robust interaction—including cost-discounted counterspells, Wash Out, and Curse of the Swine—protects the setup while disrupting faster opponents. Once the engine hits critical mass on Turn 6, the deck closes the game in a single explosive turn cycle.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Barbarian Ring
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
• 1 Caldera Pyremaw
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Combat Tutorial
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Confusticate and Bebother
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curse of the Swine
• 1 Divert Disaster
• 1 Eris, Roar of the Storm
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Ferrous Lake
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Insidious Will
• 1 Insurrection
• 13 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Kindlespark Duo
• 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1 Long-Term Plans
• 1 Mind Spiral
• 1 Mind's Desire
• 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Mysidian Elder
• 1 Opt
• 1 Part the Waterveil
• 1 Pearl of Wisdom
• 1 Peculiar Lighthouse
• 1 Phantom Interference
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Procrastinate
• 1 Professor Zei, Anthropologist
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Pull from Tomorrow
• 1 Queen Brahne
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return the Past
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Searing Touch
• 1 Shifting Grift
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Step Through
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
• 1 Time Stop
• 1 Traitorous Greed
• 1 Unstable Experiment
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Walk the Aeons
• 1 Wash Out
• 1 Will of the Temur