The Black Wizard ⚫️🧙‍♂️ by Luffydono

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 66

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Izzet Spellslinger Storm combo deck piloted by Vivi Ornitier. Vivi serves as both an escalating burst mana battery and an inherent table-wide win condition, pinging each opponent for 1 damage and accumulating +1/+1 counters whenever a noncreature spell is cast. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Vivi by Turn 3, leveraging low-cost cantrips like Ponder and Preordain to sculpt the hand, and utilizing Vivi's {0} ability to generate bursts of mana on key turns. The deck reliably closes games on Turn 5 through the classic infinite combo of Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal. With mana rocks producing at least {2} mana, this creates an infinite storm loop that triggers Vivi's burn ability indefinitely to eliminate all opponents in a single turn. Dense tutoring suites and premier free protection spells like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat ensure resilient, decisive combo execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Ideas Unbound
  • 19 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jori En, Ruin Diver
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wizard's Staff