Was just made aware of this card's existence the other day by Haven, and I just thought I HAVE to make a deck with it. I just love storm and all sorts of spell copying shenanigans, I think that's the way Izzet really is supposed to feel like, with complex spell combos and stack manipulation.




This is what I'm playing with so far, in the spirit of true creature-less Izzet: (although a few copies of Niv-Mizzet, Parun would probably not be a bad idea)

3x Shock
4x Lava Coil
3x Lightning Strike
2x Chart a Course
2x Essence Scatter
3x Mission Briefing
4x Chemister's Insight
1x Nexus of Fate
1x Syncopate
2x Beacon Bolt
4x Ionize
3x Expansion // Explosion (god I love this card so much)

4x Thousand-Year Storm

Lands: (24)
9x Islands
6x Mountains
4x Steam Vents
4x Sulfur Falls
1x Memorial to Genius

It's a fun deck to play when you can actually get the storm out, but yeah, it's not very reliable. It struggles a lot vs decks that go wide, and the Arclight Phoenix/Crackling Drake self-mill style izzet is definitely more reliable. But I really want to make a true storm deck work, even if it's probably not going to be that successful in the current meta.

Runaway Steam-Kin could probably be an idea to help survive the early game, and even be a wincon. Primal Amulet also seems like a good fit for this deck, but I'm not sure what I'd cut for it, and if it would be worth it. Niv-Mizzet, Parun as mentioned probably deserves a spot in here too. There's also some recursion shenanigans with some wizards, like Naru Meha, Master Wizard, Naban, Dean of Iteration and something like Siren's Ruse that could make for some fun combos here maybe. Splashing black or white for sweepers could probably be a good idea too. Brass's Bounty might have some interesting near-infinite combo potential in here aswell, but damn it's expensive.

Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts on this card, any interesting interactions it could have, or otherwise any suggestions for fun ways to build a spell recursion deck that'd make ye olde Niv-Mizzet proud, that'd be awesome.

For some inspiration perhaps you could check CGB's vid on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7W447jYf_s

Ah nice, cheers! Just got back into magic again, nice to find some good youtubers to follow and steal ideas from hehe