Mizzix Runic Reiteration

Commander / EDH* Combo Control UR (Izzet)

Impedocles

Acceleration (18)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Turnabout

Gas (35)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Firemind's Foresight
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Gush
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Quiet Speculation
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Runic Repetition
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Whispers of the Muse
• 1x Windfall

Land (30)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 16x Snow-Covered Island
• 5x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Protection (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Remand
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Mizzix of the Izmagnus

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Maybeboard

Acceleration (3)

• 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Disruption (3)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Draw (1)

• 1x Treasure Cruise

Gas (6)

• 1x Capture of Jingzhou
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Pull from the Deep
• 1x Timetwister

Land (1)

• 1x Myriad Landscape

Other (1)

• 1x Guttersnipe

Protection (4)

• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Shattering Pulse
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Torpor Orb

Rock (1)

• 1x Gilded Lotus

X (1)

• 1x Curse of the Swine

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This is a cut-throat combo/control deck aimed at powering out Mizzix quickly and using her ability to cast a series of spells that end the game. The deck runs no creatures and focuses almost entirely on instants and sorceries. Mizzix is the Animar of instants and sorceries, and her ability enables explosive turns that outright win the game or establish massive card and tempo advantage. The more spells you cast, the more benefit you gain, so this deck focuses on spells with buyback and loops that let you cast spells repeatedly. Despite having a fairly rapid combo finish, this deck does not go all-in on the combo plan: 20% of the deck is devoted to countering your opponents' plays and protecting our own.

It usually wins between turns 3-5 if it isn't disrupted and you are free to play Mizzix and untap again. Against decks which pack disruption, the best strategy is often to slowly build up mana and card resources until your opponents are tapped out, and then play Mizzix and win on the same turn. Having Mizzix removed is often a sign that you played Mizzix a turn or two earlier than you should have. It plays well against Stax decks, particularly artifact-based decks. You have enough counterspells and removal to disrupt game-winning plays, but you have to use them judiciously since they also serve as protection for your general.

Reading The List Show

I have divided the list into 4 custom categories: Lands, Gas, Protection, and Acceleration. A few cards fit into more than one category, but most cards have a clear purpose.

Land is literally only lands. You want to drop one per turn, and I find that 32 is a good number that doesn't flood frequently and also doesn't require using draw spells to find lands very often.

Gas makes up 1/3 of the deck, and includes any cards that move you towards your win. This includes spells that draw cards, filter your draws, wheel, tutor, or recur cards from your graveyard.

Protection is the category of cards which interfere with your opponents' plans. This includes counterspells, removal, bounce, as well as permanents which screw with your opponents' resources. This also includes cards like Lightning Greaves, which stop your opponents from directly interfering with our win.

Acceleration lets you generate more mana so that I can win faster. This category is split about 50/50 between mana rocks and rituals. The mana rocks are meant to generate mana to cast Mizzix faster, while the rituals are meant to generate mana after casting Mizzix. The deck is about 20% acceleration, though I think it might be better to push that up towards 25%.

Game Phases Show

This deck has distinct plans for the three phases of the game, and needs to be piloted differently in each:

Early Game:

Play ramp artifacts, sculpt hand, and disrupt opponents' plans. You are trying to sculpt a hand and mana base that can cast Mizzix and then multiple instants or sorceries. Ideally, this phase involves casting an impactful enchantment Back to Basics, Rhystic Study, or Stranglehold. Another way to end this phase is by playing Mizzix and equipping Lightning Greaves or simply ramping into 6-7 mana. Playing Mizzix turn 2 is also a viable option if you can turn 1 Sol Ring or Mana Crypt.

Mid Game:

Begins when you cast Mizzix. As soon as you cast her, you should be ready to cast 2-3 spells. These should ideally include both cards which move you towards your goals (draw, wheel, or tutors) and cards which disrupt your opponents (counters, disruption). The goals are keeping mizzix on the field, disrupting your opponents' attempts to win, and digging for a win condition. Protecting Mizzix is a top priority, and counterspells are the best way to do so.

Late Game:

Begins when you have a win condition in hand and enough exp and mana to resolve it. Half the time, this begins when you resolve either Intuition or Firemind's Foresight . You need to count your mana and judge how close you are to going off.

Win Conditions Show

This deck has two win conditions that each allow you to cast any spell an infinite number of times. Mizzix reduces the cost on both of them immensely.

Runic Repetition + Mystic Retrieval

Runic Repetition + Mystic Retrieval form a loop that nets you one spell returned to your hand. Without Mizzix, this combo costs 7UUR, which is only doable with High Tide shenanigans. With Mizzix, that is reduced to UUR to recur any spell, repeatable infinitely. This will win you the game either instantly with a ritual or extra turn spell or by recurring disruption spells such as Cyclonic Rift. This combo can be fetched with Intuition, along with a card to recur. Time Warp and Reality Spasm are powerful options if you want to win immediately. If you generate infinite mana or turns, you can use extra mana to recur intuition and fetch other win conditions.Pros: - Wins the game without disruption- Very resilient: combo is active with both pieves in the graveyard, or with mystic retrieval already exiled- Mystic retrieval is very powerful outside the combo, and can be retrieved once you find the second piece- Versatile: can recur half of the deck infinitely- Cheap with Mizzix: UUR is easy to pay- Most people have never seen Runic Repitition played

Cons:- Expensive without Mizzix- Runic Repitition is of limited use outside the combo- Requires a ritual or extra turn spell to outright win- Sorcery speed without Leyline of Anticipation

Reiterate + ritual.

Reiterate is a standard win condition in UR spellslinger decks, but is just the backup win condition in this deck. With Mizzix in play, this spell rapidly approaches being a reusable Fork. If the spell you copy generates RR, you can repeat it infinitely. After that, Reiterate also acts as the win condition when combined with most of the spells in this deck, or even a spell cast by an opponent. Firemind's Foresight fetches this card, along with Reality Spasm and either Brainstorm or Whispers of the Muse. Note that I cut the standard Lightning Bolt from the deck, because if you can draw your deck and you have infinite mana you can just win with comet storm or stroke of genius.

Pros- Wins at instant speed- All cards are powerful outside of the combo

Cons- Vulnerable to counterspells: reiterate will fizzle if target is countered.- Expensive if Mizzix isn't in play- Original spell must remain on the stack to be reiterated- You need mana to cast both the ritual and reiterate to begin the combo

Permanents Show

The deck runs a small package of 13 artifacts and 5 enchantments. You want to spend the early game putting these permanents into play before casting Mizzix, so none of them have CMC>4. Each of them was chosen to either have a dramatic effect on the game or accelerate playing Mizzix.

Utility Permanents

These don't interact with Mizzix and we only have one card to tutor them, so each must be very powerful in the majority of games.

Sensei's Divining Top is incredibly strong, and this deck has 13 shuffle effects and 4 wheels to let you view more cards.

Rhystic Study Serves as a 1-sided tax effect that occasionally draws you cards, which is very strong.

Mystic Remora Is an amazing turn 1-2 play, and can often draw you 3-4 cards for 2 mana. You will rarely be unhappy to draw it.

Back to Basics Barely hurts us, while being devastating to most competitive decks. Many 3-color or 5-color decks can go an entire game without playing a basic land, and this punish them for that.

Stranglehold Hamstrings some of the strongest decks in the format. Tutors and fetch lands are very strong in a singleton deck, and this card says that you are the only one who can use them.

Lightning Greaves is here to make it more difficult for your opponents to kill Mizzix. If this is in your hand, you should almost always play it before dropping Mizzix.

Leyline of Anticipation is extremely powerful in your opening hand, and having it in the deck encourages mulliganing aggressively. Being able to drop Mizzix at the end of turn, and then untap before any opponents can play sorceries, is incredible. Turning your sorceries into instants is also incredibly strong.

Rocks

This deck runs 11 mana rocks, with only a couple being notable. The rest are simply all the mana rocks that cost 1 or less along with all the mana rocks which cost 2 and tap for colored mana; colorless mana is of too little use to include cards like Mind Stone and Thought Vessel

Candelabra of Tawnos serves as mana fixing, as back to basics mitigation, and as a powerful combo when used along with High Tide. It could easily be cut, if budget is an issue.

Sapphire Medallion is somewhat redundant with Mizzix, but it also reduces Mizzix's cost by 1 and helps curve your predominantly blue spells more easily once Mizzix hits the field. Ruby medallion was not included, because the deck includes far more blue spells than red ones.

Lands

This deck is built to run mostly off of islands, to synergize with High Tide and turn Ruination and Back to Basics into one-sided hate. The 5 mountains, 7 fetches, 1 shock, and 1 dual provide the necessary red mana. The fetches can grab Volcanic Island or Steam Vents to fix mana, but I suggest only keeping one in play at a time. That is usually sufficient to get you the colors you need, and ensures that you never lose too much to your own non-basic hate.

Tutors Show

Blue has a powerful suite of tutors for artifacts and instants/sorceries, which is why I built this deck to use those. Here, I outline what you will usually be tutoring for with each.

Intuition tutors for the runic repetition combo, plus whatever you want to recur for UUR.

Firemind's Foresight tutors for Brainstorm + Reality Spasm + Reiterate . Whispers of the Muse substitutes for brainstorm.

Merchant Scroll usually tutors Intuition if played on the turn Mizzix comes out, because it curves perfectly and fetches a winning combo. Pre-Mizzix, merchant scroll for High Tide can set up a powerful Mizzix turn. If your opponents are building a dangerous board state, a Cyclonic Rift is often good.

Personal Tutor usually finds a wheel, another tutor, or a strong disruption spell like Vandalblast or Ruination. With half of the Runic Repetition combo, you can fetch the other half.

Mystical Tutor is our most versatile tutor, and lets you choose from half of the deck. This is a great first card to play after casting Mizzix.

Careful Study is buried alive for flashback spells. This deck runs 4, and all of them are quite good. Always grab Mystic Retrieval, to further your win condition. This is a great spell to get a second counter for Mizzix, as you can immediately play Deep Analysis without passing priority.

Gamble is a gamble and loses card advantage, but can also find any card in the deck. Turn 1 gamble for Back to Basics or Stranglehold are strong plays that will let you hobble many competitive decks. It also works well for generating the first experience counter after casting Mizzix.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Brainstorm + Reality Spasm + Reiterate
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 1 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Experience Token
Folders	Commander 2015 Decks, Deck Ideas, Mizzy, Ideas
Based on	Mizzix Reiterate Combo Impedocles EDH