Dissipate is a better counter spell than Cancel, unless you have Spelltwine in your deck, which Chaoskings35 does, than Dissipate is worse. Maybe you should put some Dissipate and Tormod's Crypt in your sideboard just in case you come across a reanimator deck. Then you can replace Cancel and Spelltwine for those.
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Looks like a good deck to me. You should add Skullcrack to your sideboard just in case you run up against a life gain deck. And maybe take two of the Guildgates out and add one Mountain and one Island instead. If you want to drop the deck down to sixty cards my recommendation is to lose a couple Dragonshift (I only say that because it is a good win condition but I wouldn't want to lose my creatures' abilities, especially Guttersnipe and Electromancer, unless I was going for the win, of course). Or maybe take one Ral Zarek out and one Dragonshift. But really the deck is pretty solid as it stands in my opinion.If you wouldn't mind, could you take a look at my Izzet deck and tell me what you think. It's called Nivmagus and Guttersnipe. Thanks.
Nice deck. If I were you I would replace Mercurial Chemister for Nivix Guildmage. The Guildmage is cheaper mana cost wise and his abilities are pretty sweet. You can pay three and draw into an Izzet Charm or a Mizzium Mortar and discard a land if you already have enough land on the battlefield. And his second ability lets you copy a spell you cast. So a Mizzium Mortar could hit for 8 damage, or you can target something else with the copy. The only problem with the Guildmage's second ability is it costs 4 mana, which is why you may want to look into Goblin Electromancer. He'll make your spells cheaper and then the Guildmage's second ability won't seem so bad.
Thanks. I do have more Cyclonic Rift but I don't really have a place in my deck to add more. Maybe in my sideboard. I'll have to look into it. I actually just added that one Rift to the deck today because it will be nice for its overload, or just in case I have to get rid of a Witchbane Orb, a big creature, or an artifact like the Sword of War and Peace, which one of my friends likes to play.
Thanks for the comment. I would run Delver of Secrets but I already have a Delver deck (Blue and White) and I don't want to own two decks with Delver in them, only because that way I can have some variety when I play with my friends. But yes, Delver would be awesome in this deck, as well.