Art by Svetlin Velinov
Saved commander deck
Niv-Mizzet, Parun
Cast cheap instants and sorceries to fill the graveyard, heavily discounting The Magic Mirror and triggering Niv-Mizzet and spell-payoff creatures to burn down your opponents while drawing through your entire deck.
Prompt: Build a Commander deck that includes The Magic Mirror
Commander
1 cards
Niv-Mizzet, Parun
{U}{U}{U}{R}{R}{R}Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10 cards
Goblin Electromancer
{U}{R}Creature — Goblin Wizard
reduces casting costs of all instants and sorceries
Baral, Chief of Compliance
{1}{U}Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
reduces instant and sorcery costs while looting on counterspells
Storm-Kiln Artist
{3}{R}Creature — Dwarf Shaman
generates immense treasure mana on magecraft triggers
Card Draw
12 cards
The Magic Mirror
{6}{U}{U}{U}Legendary Artifact
discounted by stocked graveyard to draw exponential cards each turn
Brainstorm
{U}Instant
efficient cantrip that triggers card draw payoffs instantly
Faithless Looting
{R}Sorcery
filters cards while stocking the graveyard for mirror discounts
Frantic Search
{2}{U}Instant
free spell that fills the graveyard and filters hand
Windfall
{2}{U}Sorcery
punishes big hands, refills your own, and fuels Niv-Mizzet triggers
Archmage Emeritus
{2}{U}{U}Creature — Human Wizard
draws a card on every instant and sorcery cast
Rhystic Study
{2}{U}Enchantment
taxes opponents or draws a massive quantity of cards
Removal
11 cards
Blasphemous Act
{8}{R}Sorcery
mass board wipe that frequently costs a single red mana
Rapid Hybridization
{U}Instant
efficient one-mana creature answer mirroring Pongify
Negate
{1}{U}Instant
hard counter against noncreature spells threatening your engine
Vandalblast
{R}Sorcery
flexible artifact removal that can act as a one-sided wipe
Fierce Guardianship
{2}{U}Instant
free defensive counterspell with your commander out
Threats/Wincons
21 cards
Talrand, Sky Summoner
{2}{U}{U}Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
creates a swarm of 2/2 flying drakes from casting spells
Murmuring Mystic
{3}{U}Creature — Human Wizard
produces evasive bird illusion tokens on spellcasts
Young Pyromancer
{1}{R}Creature — Human Shaman
floods the board with 1/1 elemental tokens
Third Path Iconoclast
{U}{R}Creature — Human Monk
generates soldier tokens off noncreature spell triggers
Guttersnipe
{2}{R}Creature — Goblin Shaman
shocks every opponent each time an instant or sorcery is cast
Electrostatic Field
{1}{R}Creature — Wall
burns each opponent while serving as an early defensive wall
Kessig Flamebreather
{1}{R}Creature — Human Shaman
reliably pings all opponents off every noncreature spell
Veyran, Voice of Duality
{1}{U}{R}Legendary Creature — Efreet Wizard
doubles all magecraft and spellcast triggers
Crackling Drake
{U}{U}{R}{R}Creature — Drake
massive flying attacker scaling with spells in graveyard and exile
Enigma Drake
{1}{U}{R}Creature — Drake
cheap flyer that grows lethal with an active graveyard
Haughty Djinn
{1}{U}{U}Creature — Djinn
huge flying threat that simultaneously discounts all spells
Sprite Dragon
{U}{R}Creature — Faerie Dragon
hasty flyer that grows permanently with every noncreature cast
Aria of Flame
{2}{R}Enchantment
burn enchantment that quickly escalates to lethal damage
Shark Typhoon
{5}{U}Enchantment
makes scalable flying sharks with every noncreature cast
Metallurgic Summonings
{3}{U}{U}Enchantment
spawns construct tokens scaling with spell mana costs
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
{3}{U}{U}Creature — Insect Horror // Creature — Eldrazi Insect
generates wizards and transforms into an aerial lord
Deekah, Fractal Theorist
{4}{U}Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
builds massive fractal tokens whenever you cast spells
Sorcerer Class
{U}{R}Enchantment — Class
turns creatures into mana dorks and provides late-game burn
Erebor Flamesmith
{1}{R}Creature — Dwarf Artificer
deals repeated damage to each opponent on spellcasts
Laboratory Maniac
{2}{U}Creature — Human Wizard
alternate win condition when drawing out via huge card draw engines
Psychosis Crawler
{5}Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
drains all opponents equal to every card drawn from your engine
Utility
8 cards
Thousand-Year Storm
{4}{U}{R}Enchantment
chains and multiplies spells exponentially on combo turns
Swarm Intelligence
{6}{U}Enchantment
automatically copies every instant and sorcery cast
Mizzix's Mastery
{3}{R}Sorcery
recasts your entire stocked graveyard for an explosive turn
Past in Flames
{3}{R}Sorcery
grants flashback to all instants and sorceries in your graveyard
Underworld Breach
{1}{R}Enchantment
allows recurred casting of spells from graveyard to finish games
Curiosity
{U}Enchantment — Aura
combos directly with Niv-Mizzet to draw and ping out the table
Ophidian Eye
{2}{U}Enchantment — Aura
redundant combo aura with Niv-Mizzet that draws on damage dealt
Tandem Lookout
{2}{U}Creature — Human Scout
soulbond partner for Niv-Mizzet that enables the ping-draw loop
