Niv Mizzet Middle Earth by DAN1994

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Supreme

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange strategy commanded by Niv-Mizzet, Supreme that blends Lord of the Rings Amass and sacrifice themes with a graveyard-recastable two-color instant and sorcery suite. The game plan focuses on building a board presence using Amass Orcs and Goblins alongside aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Uglúk of the White Hand, and Bolg of the North. Niv-Mizzet, Supreme provides a resilient 5/5 flying threat with built-in hexproof from monocolored sources, granting jump-start to two-color spells such as Quandrix Charm, Fatal Grudge, and Deadly Brew for recursive removal and card flow. The deck lacks dedicated tutors and fast mana, relying on natural draws and incremental card engines like Call of the Ring and Gorbag of Minas Morgul. Win conditions rely on multi-turn combat pressure and incremental token drain rather than infinite combos, requiring three response cycles to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Boneclub Berserker
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chaos Spewer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dreaded Bat-Cloud
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Easterling Vanguard
  • 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fatal Grudge
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Give // Take
  • 1 Gnashing of Teeth
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Grim Contest
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Gundabad Opportunist
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Karai's Technique
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Long-Bodied Grey Dog
  • 1 Magnificent End
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Mordor Trebuchet
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Supreme
  • 1 Old Fat Spider Can't See Me
  • 1 Old Thrush
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Render Speechless
  • 1 Rhovanion Rampager
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sandstorm Verge
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Snarling Warg
  • 1 Snowslope Hunter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiral into Solitude
  • 1 Stone by Sunlight
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Sundering Archaic
  • 1 Suspend Aggression
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Vondam, the Lucent
  • 1 Tend the Sprigs
  • 1 The Chief Warg
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Velvetwing Butterflies // Gaze in Wonder
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Worldsoul's Rage