New Untitled Deck by BigNickEnergy

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is piloted by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, leveraging lifegain and aristocrat mechanics to create massive card advantage and asymmetric life drain. The early game focuses on deploying low-cost lifegain enablers like Creeping Bloodsucker, Aunt May, and Lunarch Veteran, supported by artifact mana. Once the commander enters on Turn 5, every point of life gained can be converted directly into fresh cards, rapidly refueling the hand. The deck then transitions into a decisive board state using drain multipliers such as Marauding Blight-Priest, Defiling Daemogoth, and Sanguine Bond. It finishes games across Turns 7-8 via massive Exsanguinate casts, Vizkopa Guildmage bursts with Revival // Revenge, or Aetherflux Reservoir activations. High-efficiency targeted exile answers keep key opposing threats in check throughout.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Angelic Accord
  • 1 Answered Prayers
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Aunt May
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Diamond City
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Confidant
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Charm
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Revival // Revenge
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Wound Reflection