[EDH / Commander] Hyper Budget Niv-Mizzet, Parun

[TolueneCat]

Hyper Budget Niv-Mizzet, Parun

Burn through powerful draw spells and ping your enemies down. Budget could be further reduced by using Firemind instead of Parun and tossing in another land or filler card.

$40 as of 1/28/19

~advice to make the deck cheaper and/or more consistent is welcome! This deck is part of my practice to get creative and make limited cost decks to share. Not looking to break 40 USD. ~

[lukefly2]

I don't know if you're against infinite combos but, Curiosity is $0.23 and gives you infinite card draw and damage.

[TolueneCat]

I’m all about having a couple crazy “I win” cards. If it was open budget I’d probably focus on infinite mana combos so I could just burn through the deck, as is I’m trying to pull it toward control (ish)? I’m testing soon so I’ll mess with it more later.

[TheWakaEmu117]

if you want it to be more controlling you should play a few more counters and the counters you are playing aren't great most counterspells are relatively cheap. I would say Counterspell of course I think it should already be in the deck, rewind, sinister sabotage even at 3 mana is pretty good. If you go that route you should play baral I think he has a place in this deck regardless of whether you add more counters or not. also bigger draw spells like pull from tomorrow and stroke of genius might be good if they fit in to your budget. Also Blasphomest Act you should play as a board wipe although it is like $4. but seems cool.

[TolueneCat]

@ emu: I think you are right about a lot of th these suggestions. I am trying to keep the budget of this deck very tight to support people who might want to play a different version that still functions. Baral I plan to put into a “good additions” section, he is a bit out of the budget here but he definitely belongs in the deck

[TolueneCat]

Updates: Moved some of the more expensive cards to the Maybeboard: these cards are really powerful and if you try the budget version and really like it, you should definitely pick up the maybeboard cards. They shouldn't cost you more than $20 altogether and make the deck really powerful! Added: Curiosity, Counterspell, Rewind.

A note on playstyle: As this deck isn't super powerful, one strategy you can use to take out a strong enemy is to team up with a couple other players. Ask them to use as many sorceries and instants as possible and have Niv-mizzet deal damage to the dangerous enemy. With two or three players heavily spending spells you will be able to take them down with direct damage very quickly.