Guild Control by Schmovakiin

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet Reborn

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-Color Midrange Control build helmed by Niv-Mizzet Reborn, constructed with a strict design where every nonland spell is an exact two-color guild pair. The distribution features 9 Azorius, 8 Dimir, 3 Rakdos, 2 Gruul, 6 Selesnya, 7 Orzhov, 7 Izzet, 5 Golgari, 2 Boros, and 12 Simic cards across its 61 nonland slots. The mana base leverages 39 lands—including 10 fetchlands, 10 shocklands, and 5 triomes—enabling reliable 5-color fixing. On Turn 4, Niv-Mizzet enters the battlefield to refill the hand with 3 to 5 distinct guild spells. From Turn 5 onward, blink engines like Soulherder and Brago, King Eternal create recurring card advantage, while stax pieces like Teferi, Time Raveler and Ashiok, Dream Render suppress opponents. The deck wins by Turn 7 through lethal combat damage with large threats like Niv-Mizzet, Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and The Scarab God, or via an infinite copy-burn loop using Ral, Storm Conduit and Expansion // Explosion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Biomechan Engineer
  • 1 Biotech Specialist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brago, King Eternal
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bring to Light
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Rebirth
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dack's Duplicate
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kaya the Inexorable
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Knight of Autumn
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merciless Eviction
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet Reborn
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oath of Teferi
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reflector Mage
  • 1 Renegade Rallier
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
  • 1 Saheeli Rai
  • 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Skyserpent Seeker
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Venser, the Sojourner
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrenn and Six
  • 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
  • 1 Zagoth Triome