MTG Salvation

Hey all!

Welcome to probably my new favorite deck from the commander 2015 set! I was originally hyped for Meren, of Clan Nol Toth, but after playing with Mizzix, I was blown away. In the past, I had made a Melek, Izzet Paragon deck with the same storm presence. However, Mizzix turns that concept on his head and I find it MUCH more satisfying playing spells that cost super cheap rather than doubling them (2 time walk spells for UUUU is fun! XD) Any thoughts to improve this deck would be appreciated

Cool list, I might be making a Mizzix deck soon. I'm surprised to not see Time Stretch or Walk the Aeons, but you do have a lot of extra turns thought. Good call on the storm stuff for potential win cons.

I've been playing Mizzix for about a month now and she's a blast! I've played a couple different builds and what I've found generally:

I'd take out:

Inexorable Tide. I've found it's really easy to get Mizzix counters, and I cut permanents for spells as much as possible. Tezzeret's Gambit is good because it's so often free card draw, but it's the last proliferate card in the deck.

I found Goblin Electromancer and Jace's Sanctum usually a little unnecessary, kind of like how you can go lighter on ramp cards in Azusa, Lost But Seeking because of Azusa.

It's really hard to win through Talrand, Sky Summoner's tokens in this deck. If he's there for blockers maybe consider another mass bounce or mass burn spell.

Firemind's Foresight: unless you're running the Reiterate combo ( Reiterate / Reality Spasm or Reset / Lightning Bolt or any one-drop that either deals damage or makes someone draw a card ), I've found this one super expensive.

Cards to look at:

Mystical Tutor: looks for instants and sorceries. I hear Mizzix likes those.

Reiterate: lends itself to a bazillion combos, but is itself great utility.

Red Elemental Blast/Pyroblast: somewhat meta dependent, but rarely duds, in my experience.

Hidden Strings: this deck is very mana hungry. This is reusable and quickly becomes pseudo "ramp".

Command Beacon: kind of an auto-include lately.

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I've been playing Mizzix for about a month now and she's a blast! I've played a couple different builds and what I've found generally:

I'd take out:

Inexorable Tide. I've found it's really easy to get Mizzix counters, and I cut permanents for spells as much as possible. Tezzeret's Gambit is good because it's so often free card draw, but it's the last proliferate card in the deck.

I found Goblin Electromancer and Jace's Sanctum usually a little unnecessary, kind of like how you can go lighter on ramp cards in Azusa, Lost But Seeking because of Azusa.

It's really hard to win through Talrand, Sky Summoner's tokens in this deck. If he's there for blockers maybe consider another mass bounce or mass burn spell.

Firemind's Foresight: unless you're running the Reiterate combo ( Reiterate / Reality Spasm or Reset / Lightning Bolt or any one-drop that either deals damage or makes someone draw a card ), I've found this one super expensive.

Cards to look at:

Mystical Tutor: looks for instants and sorceries. I hear Mizzix likes those.

Reiterate: lends itself to a bazillion combos, but is itself great utility.

Red Elemental Blast/Pyroblast: somewhat meta dependent, but rarely duds, in my experience.

Hidden Strings: this deck is very mana hungry. This is reusable and quickly becomes pseudo "ramp".

Command Beacon: kind of an auto-include lately.

Thanks for the advice with some of the cards here! Question, how does the combo with Reiterate work?

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Question, how does the combo with Reiterate work?

Mizzix discounts buyback costs as well as regular costs. With four experience counters, Reiterate costs RR for each time you cast it with buyback, meaning anything that untaps for that or generates RR can be copied infinitely.

Infinite Mana: Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual, Inner Fire, Mana Geyser, etc. for straight up adding red mana; Reality Spasm and Reset for land and artifact untaps.

Infinite Self Mill ( for Laboratory Maniac... or just to dig for the combo you want) and as much mana as your deck can loot itself for: Frantic Search.

Firemind's Foresight was mostly in my older version of this deck to fetch this combo. Now, if you have an infinite mana outlet like Comet Storm in hand the one drop can be anything, but if you don't Lightning Bolt can just be Reiterated infinite times after you've netted infinite mana with Reset or Reality Spasm. You can also make everyone draw infinite cards the next turn with Sapphire Charm.

Currently my deck has moved away from this combo towards running Intuition for the deadly pile of Enter The Infinite, Past In Flames, and Mizzix's Mastery, which is much harder for opponents to stop. Both are really solid, but Firemind's Foresight requires more of Mizzix's discount or a lot of mana, where as the Intuition combo can still go off without Mizzix as you're "cheating" Enter The Infinite with Mizzix's Mastery.

There's a ton of chatter on Welgo and Doom Blade's threads on this commander.

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Quote from GrimoireDark »

Question, how does the combo with Reiterate work?

Mizzix discounts buyback costs as well as regular costs. With four experience counters, Reiterate costs RR for each time you cast it with buyback, meaning anything that untaps for that or generates RR can be copied infinitely.

Infinite Mana: Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual, Inner Fire, Mana Geyser, etc. for straight up adding red mana; Reality Spasm and Reset for land and artifact untaps.

Infinite Self Mill ( for Laboratory Maniac... or just to dig for the combo you want) and as much mana as your deck can loot itself for: Frantic Search.

Firemind's Foresight was mostly in my older version of this deck to fetch this combo. Now, if you have an infinite mana outlet like Comet Storm in hand the one drop can be anything, but if you don't Lightning Bolt can just be Reiterated infinite times after you've netted infinite mana with Reset or Reality Spasm. You can also make everyone draw infinite cards the next turn with Sapphire Charm.

Currently my deck has moved away from this combo towards running Intuition for the deadly pile of Enter The Infinite, Past In Flames, and Mizzix's Mastery, which is much harder for opponents to stop. Both are really solid, but Firemind's Foresight requires more of Mizzix's discount or a lot of mana, where as the Intuition combo can still go off without Mizzix as you're "cheating" Enter The Infinite with Mizzix's Mastery.

There's a ton of chatter on Welgo and Doom Blade's threads on this commander.

Thank you! I will definatly try some of these out! I am so happy to make this deck more broke than it already is I will miss having Jace's Santum in the deck. Love the artwork for it :x

I would really like to see your deck list as well. Sounds like a lot of testing g has gone on