Vivi Ornitier - Cantrip Storm by Tgro2012

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 76

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger storm shell commanded by Vivi Ornitier. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana early, resolving Vivi, and enchanting it with Curiosity to turn every noncreature spell into three card draws and a +1/+1 counter. Because Vivi taps for colored mana equal to its power, each cast increases both card advantage and mana velocity, rapidly generating a decisive storm turn. The deck finishes games by burning the table with Vivi's damage triggers, casting Grapeshot or Brain Freeze, or executing the compact two-card infinite combo of Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame. Backed by format-staple free countermagic (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat) and proactive protection from Hexing Squelcher, the deck reliably threatens protected, same-turn table kills on Turn 3 while disrupting opposing strategies with surgical efficiency.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wooded Foothills