Creatures 6
Instants 15
Sorceries 9
Artifacts 2
Lands 22
Other 6
Strategy notes
M5 Izzet Maghi is an Izzet (blue-red) spellslinger/tempo deck in Standard. It looks to chain together cheap instants and sorceries like Opt, Sleight of Hand, Burst Lightning, and Spell Pierce to keep cards flowing, disrupt the opponent, and trigger payoff creatures.
Its main synergies come from prowess-style and spell-reward threats such as Slickshot Show-Off, Elusive Otter, and likely Drake Hatcher, which grow or generate value as you cast noncreature spells. The deck plays like an aggressive-tempo shell: deploy an efficient threat, protect it, and use burn and interaction to clear the way while continuing to pressure the opponent.
It usually wins by snowballing early evasive or scaling threats and finishing with combat damage backed by burn and repeated spell triggers.
Written by the Kraken's AI from this decklist.