Niv-Mizzet Reborn
Legendary Creature — Dragon Avatar
Flying
When Niv-Mizzet enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each color pair, choose a card that's exactly those colors from among them. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Multiverse Legends
- Price
- $0.79
- EDHREC rank
- #8764
Niv-Mizzet Reborn enters and immediately refills your hand with up to ten cards, one for each two-color pair represented among your top ten cards — the payoff is enormous in any deck built around multicolor spells. The cost is a five-color mana requirement on a 6/6 body at six mana, which means you either build around fixing it or you don't run it at all.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Niv-Mizzet Reborn lives — it slots naturally as the general of a five-color good-stuff deck built to maximize hits across all ten guilds, and the 100-card singleton format gives you room to stack multicolor spells across every pair. In competitive EDH it shows up as a value engine in the command zone, where recasting it after removal means drawing cards again and again. In Pioneer and Modern it's legal but practically unplayed — the five-color mana requirement and the absence of a built-in combo payoff make it too slow against the formats' linear threats. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken things to do at six mana, so it doesn't show up there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.79 bulk tier
At $0.79, Niv-Mizzet Reborn is bulk despite being a mythic rare dragon with a genuinely powerful effect — supply from multiple printings has kept the price floor low. It's a strong pickup at this price for anyone building five-color Commander, and there's no obvious reprint pressure that would push it lower.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.