Vivi

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger and storm burn strategy commanded by Vivi Ornitier. Vivi acts as both a win condition and a mana engine, growing larger with every noncreature spell cast, burning each opponent, and generating explosive bursts of colored mana. The deck accelerates through cheap cantrips, cost reducers like Goblin Electromancer and Ruby Medallion, and mana generators like Birgi, God of Storytelling and Jeska's Will. Secondary burn engines such as Fiery Inscription, Guttersnipe, and Veyran, Voice of Duality stack damage triggers to rapidly lower opposing life totals. In addition to raw spellstorm attrition, the list carries a compact infinite combo in Niv-Mizzet, Parun paired with Curiosity. Defensive interaction is strong, utilizing free counters like Fierce Guardianship alongside flexible answers like Mana Drain and Cyclonic Rift. The deck is limited primarily by a high basic land count and sparse tutor access for non-instant/sorcery pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
• 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 City on Fire
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Daze
• 1 Display of Power
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Erebor Flamesmith
• 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fated Firepower
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Fire Magic
• 1 Flame of Anor
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Hoarding Ogre
• 1 Increasing Vengeance
• 1 Inevitable Betrayal
• 1 Invert Polarity
• 10 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lightning Strike
• 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
• 1 Mana Crypt
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Vault
• 12 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
• 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
• 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
• 1 Opt
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
• 1 Reiterate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
• 1 Shock
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Strix Serenade
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Tandem Lookout
• 1 Tempest Angler
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thousand-Year Storm
• 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Wizard Class
• 1 Wizard's Staff