Five-ColorLegendary Creature — Dragon AvatarNiv-Mizzet, Supreme
Mana value5Rank#13,060
The Commander
Flying, hexproof from monocolored
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard that's exactly two colors has jump-start. (You may cast that card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile it.)
Guide
Gameplan
Niv-Mizzet, Supreme is a five-color spellslinger commander that wants a deck stuffed with two-color (guild) instants and sorceries. Cast them once from hand, then recur them from the graveyard with jump-start, generating relentless card advantage and value over the course of the game. You grind out incremental advantage with removal, draw, and bounce, then convert a critical mass of multicolor spells into a burn, mill, or storm-style finish.
Strengths
- Built-in recursion on every two-color instant/sorcery effectively doubles your spell count for free value.
- Hexproof from monocolored makes him resilient to most spot removal in mono-color heavy metas.
- Five-color identity gives access to the absolute best gold removal, card draw, and tutors.
- Excellent grind potential—out-values attrition decks by re-buying spells from the yard.
Weaknesses
- Demands a high density of exactly-two-color spells, which constrains deckbuilding and mana base.
- Jump-start costs cards from hand, so card advantage engines are needed to fuel it.
- Vulnerable to multicolored removal, graveyard hate, and board wipes that ignore hexproof.
- Five-color mana base is greedy and prone to color-screw without strong fixing.
- No inherent win condition—needs dedicated payoffs to actually close games.
Key Cards
- Electrolyze — Cheap two-color removal that draws a card and can be replayed via jump-start for double value.
- Hydroid Krasis — A flexible Simic threat, but more importantly enables high-value multicolor spell decks; pair with gold instants like this for engine fuel.
- Expansion // Explosion — Explosion is a scalable two-color finisher and draw spell that jump-start lets you recast for the kill.
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun — Stapling a draw-on-each-spell Dragon to a spellslinger shell turns every jump-start into card flow and incidental damage.
- Mystic Confluence — Modal Simic instant offering counters, bounce, and draw—exactly the flexible gold spell this deck recurs.
- Cyclonic Rift — Premier blue reset, but note it's monocolor so it won't gain jump-start—still a key catch-up/finisher button.
- Underworld Breach — Supercharges your graveyard recursion, letting you escape spells alongside jump-start for explosive value or combo turns.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the spell suite to maximize exactly-two-color instants and sorceries so nearly everything gains jump-start, and add a damage payoff like Niv-Mizzet, Parun or Aetherflux Reservoir to convert the recursion into kills. Upgrade the mana base with fetch/dual lands, Talismans, and signets to support a greedy five-color curve, then add Underworld Breach and tutors (Mystical Tutor, Demonic Tutor) for consistency and combo potential.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Recurring burn spells (Explosion, Comet Storm, Fire//Ice-style cards) to chip and then finish each opponent.
- ▸Niv-Mizzet, Parun or similar draw-triggers turning a spell chain into lethal pings.
- ▸A big finisher threat like Hydroid Krasis or Torrent of Souls-fueled creatures while controlling the board.
- ▸Storm/loop kills via Underworld Breach plus cheap recurring spells.
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — He rewards casting and recasting two-color instants and sorceries, the core of any spell-matters build.
- Control — Access to all five colors of counters, removal, and recurring answers lets you durdle and grind opponents out.
- Value/Goodstuff — Five-color identity plus free recursion supports a midrange pile of the best gold spells available.
- Storm/Combo — Underworld Breach and jump-start chains can fuel storm finishers or recursive combo loops.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGRUW), by popularity.
