Niv-Mizzet by FrostEnte

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages lifegain synergy, tax-based attrition, and burst card draw. Helmed by Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, it turns passive lifegain from Soul Sisters and Extort triggers into massive card advantage by paying life. The deck controls the board with efficient spot removal and sweepers such as Toxic Deluge and Austere Command, using its inflated life total as an expendable resource buffer. It secures victory through alternate win conditions like Approach of the Second Sun and Test of Endurance, or by draining the table with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Strong recursion keeps the core engine resilient against opposing disruption.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Case of the Uneaten Feast
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Divinity of Pride
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enlightened Confidant
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Light of Hope
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Book of Exalted Deeds
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer