niv-mimic

by fearghal on 08 November 2024

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (4 cards)

Creatures (2)

Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

Its an attempt at a casual dragon deck, nothing fancy or crazy. just copy and hope you live long enough to copy big dragons

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for niv-mimic

You've got a few extraneous things going on here that could be trimmed for some better performance. Copy Artifact and Copy Enchantment don't really have any place in this build, as you aren't running many of either type, and neither type fits into your dragon theme. Curiosity isn't necessary and doesn't have great targets, as it's essentially a +0 until you attack with it twice beyond the Niv-shenanigans. Basilisk Collar isn't really worth the spot, as you don't need big dragons to have deathtouch, and lifelink is nice with big dragons, but you'll almost certainly win the game with damage making the life gain aspect moot. Instead, I'd up the land count to 21 and check out the following:

Mind Stone- helps you accelerate into your dragons and isn't a dead draw when you don't need the mana
Orb of Dragonkind- same as above
Thorn of Amethyst- basically won't affect you at all and will cripple a good portion of opposing decks (if you build the rest of the deck around critters, which is one way to do it)
Sarkhan, Fireblood- mana accel and good other effects on the cheap
Breath Weapon- instant speed nuke that doesn't affect you

You could also look into some of the cheaper dragons that are still quite good, such as:
Moonveil Regent
Thunderbreak Regent
Verix Bladewing

Since you're running blue, it would also be quite helpful to add in some tactics cards to help move through the deck more quickly, such as:

Ponder
Preordain
Brainstorm


Just some thoughts.

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Posted 10 November 2024 at 20:16

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part of the idea is to copy the opponent for silly moments or copy my dragons. the copy enchantment and artifact was for those moments specify and not for any special tactics, I'm trying not to super optimize it due to afew of my decks are just kinda squish and its not fun for others

i was thinking a straight changling deck but it needs something to work with its self too, thus dragons and niv. any ideas to make a casual but silly copy people?

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Posted 24 November 2024 at 20:37

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Extravagant Replication is one of the shenanigan cards you can play around with, as you can use Copy Enchantment on it, and the two copies can make copies of the other, ostensibly pumping out 4 copies of stuff each turn (unless you want to keep replicating). Mirage Mirror is wildly useful (and combos with Extravagant Replication the same way). If you just want to copy your own dragons, Mirror of the Forebears or any of the various iterations therein. I quite like [[The Everflowing Well//The Myriad Pools]] for this build, as it does everything you want (including incidental acceleration).

I'm still missing the "idea" of what this deck really is (for example, Amoeboid Changeling makes no sense to me whatsoever), but that's probably irrelevant. If you want copy shenanigans and don't want to just run the staple copy mechanics in EDH (such as Phyrexian Metamorph and Helm of the Host), the above will get it done.

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Posted 25 November 2024 at 20:23

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