I believe Niv-Mizzet is literally the most insane card in standard now. If he lives he basically wins games the next turn.
A few things I still need to play test to make sure is correct. I may be dropping Ionize all together for Sinister Sabotage as 19 blue sources is more than enough to support them. I may even cut them down to 2. Not 100% sure what I would replace them with ATM but I just know that a lot of the time I'm wishing they were something reactive. Connive // Concoct basically lets us run 6 Niv-Mizzet and is amazing if you can bring him out on turn 5 or turn 6 with dive down in hand.
In your deck, I don't get the black splash so much... ...you play 8 black cards, none of them is really needed. This version of the deck won't be weaker if you cut the black spells and add some more counterspells instead.
Also, I don`t think a 1of Dive Down is good here. You either have Niv-Mizzet without dive down or Dive down without anything to protect. I'd play a card, that is always good, not only in rare cases.
The black splash is for things like thought erasure, contempt,duress, and reborn. I thought about tossing 2 nicol bolas in the mix, but I'm still unsure if I want to. I feel like everyone plays him because they feel they have to. He gets eaten by a ton of removal. Lava coil is huge right now and I don't like playing him into that. Maybe sideboarding him could be decent for when they board out their coils and such. The idea is to play mizzet and get him to stick. Dive down helps in that area, and like you said it can be a dead card in hand but i can toss it for jumpstart or toss it to sarkhan if I want something else. It's a one of because it can come in really clutch. There is a reason this card is seeing so much play with it's best buddy Mizzet.
So I did decide to make a few changes. -4 Ionize +2 Sinister Sabotage +2 Vraska's Contempt from the SB. I put 2 Nicol Bolas, The Ravager into the SB against Izzet Drakes as they will most likely take their coils out and the extra discard is valuable to slow them down.
Also, if you play maindeck sweepers why not Ritual of Soot over Fiery Cannonade ?
Is it just because of the BB mana cost with black being the splash color ?
Also, if you play maindeck sweepers why not Ritual of Soot over Fiery Cannonade ?
Is it just because of the BB mana cost with black being the splash color ?
I choose Sarkhan over Ral one, because sarkhan comes down on 3 if needed, 2 I've tested with both and everytime I've played Ral I was wishing he was sarkhan. Ral is good, but my game plan is to drop niv-mizzet.
Reborn is awesome and that's why it's in the sideboard, but waiting 3 turns to bring back a mizzet is too slow. I want to be able to play a mizzet into removal if needed, draw a card, ping them and then just do it again the next turn and have him stick. Although I may put reborn MB if I find Casting Vraska's is hard with my mana base like this, but it's felt find out of the sideboard so I figured I'd try it.
Yes Fiery Cannonade is a concession to the BB casting cost, while also being able to hit things at instant speed if needed, so I don't have to slow down on my turns.
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A few things I still need to play test to make sure is correct. I may be dropping Ionize all together for Sinister Sabotage as 19 blue sources is more than enough to support them. I may even cut them down to 2. Not 100% sure what I would replace them with ATM but I just know that a lot of the time I'm wishing they were something reactive. Connive // Concoct basically lets us run 6 Niv-Mizzet and is amazing if you can bring him out on turn 5 or turn 6 with dive down in hand.
Any advice would be smashing!
4x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
Planeswalker (2)
2x Sarkhan, Fireblood
Instant/Sorcery (26)
4x Opt
4x Thought Erasure
4x Ionize
2x Lava Coil
2x Cast Down
2x Fiery Canonade
2x Chemister's Insight
2x Connive // Concoct
1x Dive down
1x Blink of an Eye
2x Expansion // Explosion
2x Search For Azcanta
Lands (26)
3x Watery Grave
4x Steam Vents
4x Dragonskull Summit
4x Sulfur Falls
4x Drowned Catacomb
3x Mountain
4x Island
2x Vraska's Contempt
2x Duress
2x Ritual of Soot
2x The Eldest Reborn
2x Disdainful Stroke
2x Lava Coil
1x Golden Demise
1x Fiery Cannonade
1x Star of Extinction
The black splash is for things like thought erasure, contempt,duress, and reborn. I thought about tossing 2 nicol bolas in the mix, but I'm still unsure if I want to. I feel like everyone plays him because they feel they have to. He gets eaten by a ton of removal. Lava coil is huge right now and I don't like playing him into that. Maybe sideboarding him could be decent for when they board out their coils and such. The idea is to play mizzet and get him to stick. Dive down helps in that area, and like you said it can be a dead card in hand but i can toss it for jumpstart or toss it to sarkhan if I want something else. It's a one of because it can come in really clutch. There is a reason this card is seeing so much play with it's best buddy Mizzet.
Also, if you play maindeck sweepers why not Ritual of Soot over Fiery Cannonade ?
Is it just because of the BB mana cost with black being the splash color ?
Reborn is awesome and that's why it's in the sideboard, but waiting 3 turns to bring back a mizzet is too slow. I want to be able to play a mizzet into removal if needed, draw a card, ping them and then just do it again the next turn and have him stick. Although I may put reborn MB if I find Casting Vraska's is hard with my mana base like this, but it's felt find out of the sideboard so I figured I'd try it.
Yes Fiery Cannonade is a concession to the BB casting cost, while also being able to hit things at instant speed if needed, so I don't have to slow down on my turns.