Pew pew 2.0

Standard*

Aellysse

Instant (26)

• 3x Blink of an Eye
• 4x Chemister's Insight
• 2x Essence Scatter
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 2x Mission Briefing
• 4x Opt
• 4x Shock
• 3x Sinister Sabotage
• 3x Syncopate

Land (24)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 12x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 4x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls

Creature (6)

• 4x Guttersnipe
• 2x Niv-Mizzet, Parun

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Lava Coil

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 4x Fiery Cannonade
• 4x Negate

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Banefire

Creature (4)

• 4x Murmuring Mystic

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ral, Izzet Viceroy

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 2x Thousand-Year Storm

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Chart a Course

Instant (8)

• 4x Anticipate
• 4x Ionize

Creature (4)

• 4x Electrostatic Field

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A deck based on NivMizzet and Guttersnipe with cheap spells, counters, and cantrips.

The first version used Firemind's Research, because I loved dynavolt during kaladesh, but I slowly realized that even as a janky deck it would be terrible. I think this deck can be competitive (T2-T1.5).

Matchups :

• The lack of Wrath effect is scary, but I think the matchup against aggro can be improved a lot by swapping the snipes for mystics and the toolbox for cannonades. Not sure about cannonades still, but against tokens it seems great.

• Matchup against UW is very good, since we have Mizzet and an impressive package in the SB (banefire + negates).

• Matchup against UB/BUG/GB is tough. If they don't side their removal, we have virtualy no win con. And we also have no way of answering their threats. Hence Ral in MB

• The biggest downside imo is the lack of good removal. Lava coil only goes so far. And a resolved 5cmc+ threat will usually be game over.

About MB:

• Anticipate seems like it belongs in the deck, but it also seems pretty bad. Could swap some of the blink/shock/lava coil package for them (in that order)

• Chart a Course can help going for the combo approach. Chaining cantrips for the win with 2 guttersnipes. It might have a place in SB where speed is more important than interaction. This deck is the control variant though.

• Ionize is a counter, color restricted, a lot less good than Sinister Sabotage but adds reach. I'm pretty sure it's never making it in, but it's there because it's worth considering.

Top Ranked	Achieved #39 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 2 Mythic Rares 14 - 1 Rares 17 - 4 Uncommons 14 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Bird Illusion 1/1 U, City's Blessing, Emblem Ral, Izzet Viceroy
Folders	Standard, GRN, Izzet
Based on	Pew pew Aellysse STD