Nin, the EDH artist

Commander / EDH Control UR (Izzet)

Zahntavier

Land (40)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x High Market
• 17x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Soldevi Excavations
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Winding Canyons

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Rite of Replication

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (19)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Mogg Maniac
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Willbender

Instant (16)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Into the Core
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Overwhelming Intellect
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Scrabbling Claws
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Trading Post

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Recoup

Creature (2)

• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

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Nin is a card drawing machine! I can't say enough good things about this innocuous little wizard. Usually I hit my own creatures or Nin herself, but the threat of direct damage is a potent deterrent for a lot of different strategies.

The deck is mostly blue and plays blue's control game: steal the juiciest creatures and permanents, counter the combos, and overwhelm your opponent with overbearing card advantage.

I use red here to fill in the gaps blue lacks, removal via Balefire dragon, blasphemous act, and starstorm.

THe key to winning is to deflect attacks until you can built the base to play one of your big splashy spells. Rites of replication, or Palinchron + high tide, or maybe one of your opponent's combos you were able to steal (it happens more often than you'd think!)

Wizards are a sub theme. Vedalken aethermage can tudor for any number of silver bullets: Venser, glen Elendra archmage, izzet chronarch, voidmage husher (no one sees it coming ) and trinket mage (which has a small subset of answers) etc.

Lands: the three lands that really pull their weight: Reliquary tower, Riptide Laboratory, and Winding canyons. Nin really benefits from flash or haste!

Date added	12 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	EDH DECKS