No Fun Allowed Niv

Commander / EDH*

elitemantis

Creature (12)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nucklavee
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Land (40)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 13x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Propaganda

Artifact (5)

• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Instant (25)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Inferno
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Regress
• 1x Remand
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Turn / Burn
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Volcanic Fallout

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Aftershock
• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Time Warp

Commander (1)

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First of all: This deck doesn't depend on the general for the game plan. He supplies the colors, he has a really relevant ability (ever wiped the board with Blue Sun's Zenith? Feels good), but since he's 6CMC, you're better off waiting till you can protect him instead of just throwing him down as soon as possible.

Although Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind can combo out for a win through Curiosity and Ophidian Eye, I feel that there's no point in focusing on them in this deck. Niv is quite expensive general, and protecting him and combo pieces might not always be doable, even with the counterspell suite we pack.

What you do however is lock down the board with permission/bounce spells, and use whatever seems like the best idea at the time - combos with Kiki-Jiki, the Mirror Breaker, Bribery to use enemy's strength against him, Banefire to the dome, or any other way you see. What Niv does great however is provide card advantage, and clear board on back of that card advantage.

Using him to help you achieve your goals instead of being goal in itself makes him a very potent general.

In this deck you have many routes to victory, but most important aspect is board control. You use permission to delay your opponent from doing what they want, and then big sweep in the form of Evacuation/Earthquake to get rid of what managed to stick to the board, and then using infinite turns/infinite damage/regular damage/commander damage/enemy refusing to deal with your bullshit any more to win the game.

!!! Warning !!! If you care about being nice to people, this deck may not be something you want to play. Some people prefer their Commander games to be friendly. This deck is not for the faint of heart:

-If you're on a draw, Boomerang their first land into Regress on their first land into Cryptic Command on their first land into Snapcaster Regress on their first land into Capsize with Buyback on their fist land is something I've done before in 1v1.

-Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind = as much damage as you have cards in library

-Archaeomancer + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker / Nucklavee/Izzet Chronarch/Mnemonic Wall = infinite spells (such as Time Stretch)

-Deceiver Exarch + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker = infinite damage

-Tamiyo ultimating. In 1v1 it's quite normal to get her to ultimate (harder in multiplayer), but once it's done, you get infinite whatever spells you want. Time Warps? Counterspells? Force of Wills? Yep.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Key combos	Deceiver Exarch + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Curiosity + Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.80
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage