Welcome back everyone! Today we revisit one of my favorite decks in Historic, Niv-Mizzet Reborn! After taking the deck to a first-place finish in the Coolstuff Stream League Six tournament (you can find the entire run on my personal youtube: Here) I decided to update the deck to the current Historic format and see how good Niv still was!

Let us go ahead and look at the decklist!

Time Stamps:

04:39 - Match 1

13:16 - Match 2

28:13 - Match 3

41:43 - Match 4

Niv and Lier | Historic | Ali Aintrazi

• Creatures (12)
• 1 Faceless Agent
• 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
• 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1 The Scarab God
• 4 Territorial Kavu
• 4 Niv-Mizzet Reborn

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

• Instants (12)
• 2 Kolaghan's Command
• 2 Prismari Command
• 4 Lightning Helix
• 4 Vanishing Verse

• Sorceries (6)
• 1 Deafening Clarion
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 4 Expressive Iteration

• Enchantments (1)
• 1 Binding the Old Gods

• Lands (28)
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 2 Savai Triome
• 3 Indatha Triome
• 3 Ketria Triome
• 3 Raugrin Triome

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Deafening Clarion
• 2 Culling Ritual
• 2 Deafening Clarion
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 2 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Thought Distortion
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Unmoored Ego

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I played this deck on stream to an excellent win rate. Overall, the new version hovered around a 70-80% win rate. I would take this deck to any Historic Tournament. The biggest thing about Niv-Reborn is that it is almost always a viable deck but you just have to figure out what cards to run for the metagame. With the sudden popularity of artifact and enchantment decks I am a huge fan of Prismari and Kolaghan's Command against artifacts and even running two Cleansing Novas for the Sideboard to just instantly win against Nine Lives Enchantment.dek. If you like five color control or just a value midrange deck. I would recommend this one!

That's it for today, thanks for reading/watching!

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