I’ll have to try it out on work station, seems pretty good though!

Instant Izzet- Decklist

8 Mountain
4 Steam Vents
8 Island
2 Shivan Reef

4 Reach Through Mists
4 Electrolyze
4 Compulsive Research
2 Shattering Spree
2 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
4 Volcanic Hammer
2 Izzet Signet
4 Shock
4 Wee Dragonauts
4 Gelectrode
4 Lava Spike

Sideboard- 2 shattering spree
4 Unnatural speed
4 Drift of Phantasms
1 Convolute
4 Mana Leak

Matchups:

WwR- This is one of the best matchups you have. A turn three gelectrode kills off flyers, and with a turn four shock, you can take out three creatures in one blow. All you need to do is be careful they never get a jitted creature to deal damage, so save a burn spell in case. Wait until they enter declare attackers phase and kill the creature asap with shock, electrolyze, or gelectrode. Or a combination of them.

The Zoo (W/R/G Agro)- Although there are many variants of the zoo floating around, they all have a few unifying characteristics. First, they all play kird ape. Second, they all have many one drops, namely suntail hawk and lantern kami to compliment the apes. One drops are easily shot down by this deck, with the only problem being kird ape. Either wait for a dragonaut or volcanic hammer apes if they play a mountain before he starts hurting.

so I just play tested this deck, and things haven’t gone as I expected. Wee dragonauts never lives for mroe than one attack, gelectrode does 2 or maybe 3 points of damage before dieing, and niv mizzet isn’t abl;e to carry a game home by himself. I lost to the jankiest decks I have ever played against on magic workstation. One guy had petrified woodkin and that terrible wurm from guildpact and kicked my butt. I thought this deck looked good, but it’s proving to be worse than I expected.

Ok, some very good points. Speed is in for white weenie and zoo. I want to kill a birds of paradise or savannah lion as soon as I can, and played this allows gelectrode to do so.

As for WWr, a build typically won’t run twelve copies of removal and anthem and jitte (this leaves only 20 creatures or less, making anthem not to maximum effectiveness). Light has nothing to do with gelectrode, anyway. My response to everything in the matchup except jitte is to ping. Jitte I shattering spree. Pinging and burning is incredible here. Remember that I only test one specific build of each archtype. The build I tested in Wwr was more creature riented than burn (ran 4 helix, 2 char as burn), and at the rate I draw cards, ten creatures to six burn will end up in my favor. Also, Isamaru without anthem takes a shock. With anthem, he’s a ping and a shock, untapping gelectrode. There’s really not much difference there...

As I’ve stated above, you need to think about things from the standpoint of I play a lot of burn. In response to moldervine cloak, I kill the creature. when they dredge it, I’ll wait and kill the creature in response to them playing it again. I burn burning-tree shaman with ping/shock/electrolyze/hammer just like anything else.

I don’t play counterspells maindeck because I really don’t like playing spells during their turn. It means dragonaut is useless (can’t use the buff much). I suppose I should run a couple copues, but there’s nothing worth cutting. I need the burn so I can headshot fast if necessary (usually possible turn 5-6 for 20), and I ran out of gas without the draw spells. I can’t remove mizzets because they are extra creatures, and the signets are so good I almost regret not having a full playset.

Last thing- why isn’t this pure ping?- I want to tap out to play gelectrode on turn three, plain and simple. I don’t want to wait even longer so I can have a counterspell to back him up, it just doesn’t do anything for me. That makes the first turn isamaru too phat to handle.