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This is my attempt at a hella fun izzet spells deck. What I've tried to do is create something that's cheap, fun and has some insane wombo combs to blow up while I play friendly commander games. The deck is meant to combo off in one turn by doing the following:

Melek on the board. Finding Turnabout to start generating mana (ideally also having Twincast, Howl of the Horde or Increasing Vengeance to create 3 additional copies, making 5 total resolutions of Turnabout), using this mana to draw cards or search with Dig Through Time, Treasure Cruise, Intellectual Offering, Frantic Search, Mystical Tutor, Recurring Insight , Brainstorm, Ponder, Faithless Looting or Preordain..... Then, through drawing, finding a recursion piece to bring Turnabout back to hand to continue creating mana. Recursion pieces include Pull from the Deep, Mystic Retrieval, Spelltwine, Volcanic Vision, Recoup or Past in Flames. The point of drawing cards and reiterating spells is to eventually cast enough spells to do either of the following: 1) draw the whole library and win with Laboratory Maniac, 2) do direct damage with Banefire or 3) using Brain Freeze (or Grapeshot if you want to put that in instead) to mill the opponent with storm. Your combo pieces can be protected with the following spells: 1) Arcane Denial, 2) Counterspell, 3) Counterflux, 4) Foil, 5) Disdainful Stroke, 6) Muddle the Mixture, 7) Swan Song. In the early game, the deck can directly find spells it needs with things like transmuting Tolaria West (for reliquary tower or coloured land), Muddle the Mixture for Merchant Scroll, using Merchant Scroll to look for things like Turnabout, High Tide, Mystical Tutor, Frantic Search, Intellectual Offering. It can also use Mystic Retrieval to find Faithless Looting, Past in Flames, Mystic Retrieval and Deep Analysis. This deck is very very consistent. Usually I can combo off using the hardest piece, Laboratory Maniac, and drawing my whole library with no compromises. I like to often end the game with a huge Epic Experiment to exile my whole library so i can just go fishing for the cards I need directly and then putting them on the battlefield. By doing this, I am usually going to have at least 3-5 counterspells exiled with Epic Experiment in order to protect my ending combo. Anyway, hope you guys like. Happy brewing!

I will list a few (not all) cards from each of the themes/categories in the deck below:

The generals:

Melek, Izzet Paragon / Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Draw and Search:

Frantic Search / Dig Through Time / Quiet Speculation / Merchant Scroll / Recurring Insight

Making Copies:

Rite of Replication / Increasing Vengeance / Twincast / Howl of the Horde / Melek, Izzet Paragon

Control and Disruption:

Foil / Mystic Confluence / Swan Song / Pongify / Counterspell

Tricks and Turns:

Epic Experiment / Mind's Desire / Spelltwine / Cyclonic Rift / Mizzix's Mastery

Recycling Spells:

Past in Flames / Mystic Retrieval / Pull from the Deep / Recoup

Cost reducers and Ramp:

Goblin Electromancer / Arcane Melee / Sol Ring / Darksteel Ingot / Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Win-Cons:

Banefire / Laboratory Maniac / Brain Freeze / Comet Storm / Epic Experiment

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Updates Add

Just made some replacements. Here we go:

-changed out Niv-Mizzet for Mystical Tutor -swapped a mountain for Tolaria West -replaced Talrand with High Tide -replaced Reverberate for Twincast so that it can be searched for with Merchant Scroll then added to Turnabout to create a ton of mana for comboing

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Revision 13 See all

(8 years ago)

-1 Etherium-Horn Sorcerer maybe
+1 Helm of Awakening main
+1 Lightning Storm maybe
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 0 Mythic Rares

27 - 0 Rares

24 - 0 Uncommons

19 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.10
Tokens Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Construct X/X C, Copy Clone, Experience Token, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders EDH, sigarda, EDH, Commander deck I like, op wgg sht 2, Storm
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