vivi mason 1st draft by user6574004

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Izzet spellslinger deck helmed by Vivi Ornitier, who functions as both a scaling mana engine and a repeatable win condition. Vivi's first ability produces mana equal to her power each turn, while her second ability puts a +1/+1 counter on her and pings each opponent for 1 whenever you cast a noncreature spell - meaning every cantrip, removal spell, and copy effect both grows your mana engine and advances a table-wide damage clock. The deck chains instants and sorceries through a dense suite of magecraft payoffs (Guttersnipe, Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, Veyran, Voice of Duality) and wins primarily through the Niv-Mizzet, Parun + Curiosity/Tandem Lookout infinite-ping loop, a massive Vivi-powered X spell like Banefire, or incremental ping damage from Vivi and Guttersnipe. Copy effects (Thousand-Year Storm, Adaptive Training Post, Echo Storm) multiply the spell count.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adaptive Training Post
  • 1 Agate Assault
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Ancestral Reminiscence
  • 1 Anger of the Gods
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Arm with Aether
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Blaze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confound
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Echo Storm
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fae Flight
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Flash Counter
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glaring Spotlight
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 High Tide
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Redirect
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reset
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Secret Identity
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier