I have been making Izzet lists for sometime now, but none was so versatile as this one. Won FNM today with it 5-0-1
First of all you have to be aware of what you have in your hand. This looks like an agrontrol deck but is in fact a combo one.
Every card has a reason to be there. First the creatures:
Nivmagus Elemental
1/2 for 1 is good. Becoming 5/6 at turn 2 is just ridiculous. Anyway, most of the time he is just a fancy chump blocker.
Frostburn Weird
1/4 for 2 is awesome. Hitting for 4 is better. another good blocker out of
Searing Spear
's range. Guttersnipe huge source of damage wich will haunt the control decks. Turns all of your spells into a Shock. specialy useful against planeswalkers.
Nivix Cyclops
this guy is just ridiculous. Now the Combo pieces:Artful Dodge costs 1 mana. this means 2 damage with Guttersnipe, or 2 counters on
Nivmagus Elemental
or +3 power on
Nivix Cyclops
all for 1 mana. And makes your guys unblockable! And you can do it all over again flashbacking it for 1!Armed / Dangerous of course we only use the red half. not the best card for its purpose. Boros Charm works better, but would increase in 100x the price of the deck, and im trying to keep it budget. anyway, makes your 10/4 cyclops an 20/4 cyclops. GGFling another win condition. if for some reason (
Azorius Charm
) you cant hit with your cyclops just throw it on your opponent's faceThe fasteners:Faithless Looting helps you find your combo, costs only 1 wich is good for the Nivmagus, has flashback, and if you start with this in your hand you have a partial mulligan!
Inaction Injunction
excelent for tempo, keep the big guys at bay for 1 turn, and replaces itself. also helps you find your combo.
Izzet Charm
same as faithless looting, with the pro of being an instant but con of costing 2.The burns:Turn / Burn kills any big threat or annoying guys like Thragtusk or Boros Reckoner.Fling you can target a creature with it. Most unlikely you do it though.
Izzet Charm
2 dmg as an instant. pretty standard.
Rolling Temblor
oh boy. This card has Geist of Saint Traft written all over it. works on Invisible Stalker too, as well as against every aggro deck. Aaaaand has flashback 3 turns later. The only downside is that you might kill one of your guttersnipes with it.Last but not least, counter:
Izzet Charm
counter noncreature for 2 might look bad. But then you check how many lists use either
Rakdos's Return
,Sphinx's Revelation,
Bonfire of the Damned
or other X spells and see that it is in fact great.
sorry for the long description, just wanted to make it clear why it rules!in the fnm i won i played against an rakdos aggro (2x0) (
Rolling Temblor
) for the win, then jund control (2x1) (used everything i could, took the whole 50 mins to end it), American control (2x0) then lost to an monogreen (1x2), monored (2x0)(
Rolling Temblor
again) and finished against bant auras (2x0). I think i managed to pull the combo in about 9 of my 11 wins. 6 of those were on turn 4.Thanks for reading, make your contributions if you wish
