Niv-Mizzet Lifegain by WafflestheTasty

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages lifegain engines to fuel card draw and execute deterministic life-drain infinite combos. Led by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, the deck converts routine life increments from soul sisters and passive drain pieces into massive card advantage. Acceleration relies on efficient 2-CMC mana rocks and treasure generators like Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff. The interaction suite is robust, packing efficient removal such as Swords to Plowshares, Anguished Unmaking, and Toxic Deluge to handle opposing threats while soft stax pieces like Blind Obedience and Authority of the Consuls slow down aggressive decks. The deck wins primarily through an infinite life-drain loop pairing Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, with Approach of the Second Sun and Aetherflux Reservoir serving as potent backup win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Eriette's Lullaby
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare's Thirst
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Righteous Confluence
  • 1 Sanctify
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Surgical Precision
  • 1 Survival Cache
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Wandering Emperor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Union of the Third Path
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vraska's Contempt
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow