Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari

DDJ · 90 cards · Released

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard

Flying

Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

: Draw a card.

4/4
Kiln Fiend
Creature — Elemental Beast

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

It traps an explosion within its stony skin.

1/2
Goblin Electromancer
Creature — Goblin Wizard

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.

When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."

2/2
Izzet Guildmage
Creature — Human Wizard

( can be paid with either or .)

: Copy target instant spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

: Copy target sorcery spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

2/2
Gelectrode
Creature — Weird

: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may untap this creature.

"Diametrically opposing energies in self-sealed plasmodermic bubbles make great pets!"

—Trivaz, Izzet mage

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Wee Dragonauts
Creature — Faerie Wizard

Flying

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"The blazekite is a simple concept, really—just a vehicular application of dragscoop ionics and electropropulsion magnetronics."

—Juzba, Izzet tinker

1/3
Steamcore Weird
Creature — Weird

When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to any target.

Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.

1/3
Shrewd Hatchling
Creature — Elemental

This creature enters with four -1/-1 counters on it.

: Target creature can't block this creature this turn.

Whenever you cast a blue spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.

Whenever you cast a red spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.

6/6
Ogre Savant
Creature — Ogre Wizard

When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, return target creature to its owner's hand.

He's an oxymoron.

3/2
Galvanoth
Creature — Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.

3/3
Izzet Chronarch
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.

2/2
Djinn Illuminatus
Creature — Djinn

( can be paid with either or .)

Flying

Each instant and sorcery spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

3/5
Brainstorm
Instant

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Force Spike
Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"I don't think so."

Magma Spray
Instant

Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

"Jund is a wounded world. Beware its searing blood spilling out onto the surface."

—Rakka Mar

Isochron Scepter
Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

, : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Izzet Signet
Artifact

, : Add .

The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.

Call to Heel
Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

Train of Thought
Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Draw a card.

"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"

Pyromatics
Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Pyromatics deals 1 damage to any target.

Izzet Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.

• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Reminisce
Sorcery

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Leave the door to the past even slightly ajar and it could be blown off its hinges.

Thunderheads
Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Create a 3/3 blue Weird creature token with defender and flying. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

The clouds grew thick, and then they grew teeth.

Vacuumelt
Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Dissipate
Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free."

—Dierk, geistmage

Quicksilver Dagger
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Prophetic Bolt
Instant

Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Overwhelming Intellect
Instant

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

"My brain hurts."

Sphinx-Bone Wand
Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. If you do, this artifact deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Its host's final curse lies captured within.

Street Spasm
Instant

Street Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Invoke the Firemind
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Draw X cards.

• Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to any target.

To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.

Fire
Instant

Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

Ice
Instant

Tap target permanent.

Draw a card.

Forgotten Cave
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Izzet Boilerworks
Land

This land enters tapped.

When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add .

Lonely Sandbar
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
Land

: Add .

, : Exile the top card of your library. Until your next turn, you may cast it if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

Niv-Mizzet's genius and vanity reverberate throughout the mirrored halls of Nivix.

Island
Basic Land — Island

(: Add .)

Island
Basic Land — Island

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Island
Basic Land — Island

(: Add .)

Island
Basic Land — Island

(: Add .)

Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

(: Add .)

Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

(: Add .)

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

2/2
Plagued Rusalka
Creature — Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies."

—Savra

1/1
Elves of Deep Shadow
Creature — Elf Druid

: Add . This creature deals 1 damage to you.

Cast out of the Conclave generations ago, these elves found a home in the corrupted districts of the Golgari.

1/1
Golgari Thug
Creature — Human Warrior

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

1/1
Ravenous Rats
Creature — Rat

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Devouring books is only the beginning. The librarian's next.

1/1
Reassembling Skeleton
Creature — Skeleton Warrior

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"They may show up with the wrong thigh bone or mandible, but they always show up."

—Zul Ashur, lich lord

1/1
Boneyard Wurm
Creature — Wurm

Boneyard Wurm's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

The only thing it likes more than discovering a pit of bones is adding to it.

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Korozda Guildmage
Creature — Elf Shaman

: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

, Sacrifice a nontoken creature: Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

2/2
Putrid Leech
Creature — Zombie Leech

Pay 2 life: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

It reacted to Naya's overabundant food supply by growing additional mouths.

2/2
Stinkweed Imp
Creature — Imp

Flying

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.

Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

1/2
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

2/1
Dreg Mangler
Creature — Plant Zombie

Haste

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

3/3
Shambling Shell
Creature — Plant Zombie

Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

3/1
Brain Weevil
Creature — Insect

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Sacrifice this creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

1/1
Greater Mossdog
Creature — Plant Dog

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Man's best fungus.

3/3
Golgari Grave-Troll
Creature — Troll Skeleton

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

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