OMG. The guy who made Niv-Mizzet work in T1 must be insane. I love the deck.
Yeah.. everbody knows I am
First of all, the real decklist I played that sunday can be found at
http://morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=420.
Me and Kim tested some decks before the tournament but none of them made us real happy. At one point I even built UR Phid with Niv-MIzzet to see if it works. Because the deck was still bad, we drove to a friend for further playtesting. In the car we joked around with some deck ideas and threw together a Keeper decklist with 4 Bob, 4 Ophi, 4 Whisper and 4 Scrying AND Niv-Mizzet (which was the running-gag that weekend). After some testing we had a build with 4 Scrying, 4 Whisper, Niv-Mizzet and no life gain. We looked through magic-cards.info to find a better way to gain life than renewed faith and stumbled over Hide/Seek. After 0.002 seconds we removed 1 Whisper for 1 Hide/Seek and the 4th Scrying became Balance.
So basically, we added Niv-Mizzet for fun but still, it won me 2-3 games where no other creature would have helped me.
Against UG-Madness, I was able to tutor up a Lotus, play Niv-Mizzet, cast Brainstorm into Night's Wisper ínto Brainstorm and clear his board. With Darksteel Colossus or MOrphling or Exalted Angel I would have lost the game. So still, even if he was more of a fun addition, i was really happy to have him in my deck.
No idea if I would play with Niv-Mizzet again, but i was really impressed by his power.
Night's Whispers were awesome because nobody ever countered these. And turn 1 Land -> Mox -> Whisper is a great start. You draw 2 cards while a turn 1 Dark Confidant can still be Fired/Stpd/Lightning Bolted/Triskeliond before it gives you the same cardadvantage. And Confidant can lose you way more life. One thing you really dont want in this deck.
Hide/Seek was so good, that we imediately added another one right after the tournamet.
This deck was a blast to play and it feels really good to be back into magic after like 15 months
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