Vivi LaVida Loca by SnowDriftZero

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger and combo strategy commanded by Vivi Ornitier. Vivi serves as both an escalating burn outlet and a massive mana engine, adding mana equal to its power whenever activated on your turn. The primary strategy focuses on equipping or enchanting Vivi with damage-triggered card draw effects such as Curiosity or Tandem Lookout. Because Vivi deals 1 damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell, each cheap cantrip draws three cards. This explosive draw engine allows you to dig through your deck, accumulate +1/+1 counters on Vivi, tap Vivi for large bursts of mana, and finish all opponents in a single turn using Crackle with Power or burn loops with Niv-Mizzet, Parun. The deck defends its execution with free counterspells and split-second protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Astrologian's Planisphere
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kaza, Roil Chaser
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quicksilver Elemental
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spinerock Tyrant
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Wizard's Staff