Editing Izzet League (section)

==Guild Members==
The vast majority of ranking members amongst the Izzet are [[human]]s, while the test subjects are mainly goblins. Less common members include fairies, [[ogre]]s and human/djinni hybrids.

The guild also employs elementals and creatures called Weirds: elementals consisting of opposing elements. Niv-Mizzet made these to stop the squabbling of various Elementalists, a generous gesture compared to the alternative (setting them on fire).

Finally the Izzet also have drakes that they use as familiars. They also have access to dragons, who might be clones of Niv-Mizzet but intentionally made less intelligent and powerful.

===Guild Master===
[[File:Niv-Mizzet Firemind.jpg|200px|right]][[File:Niv-Mizzet Dracogenius.jpg|200px|right]]
The dragon Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind has ruled over the Izzet since the inception of the guild at the founding of the Guildpact, where he served as one of the ten Paruns who ratified the document. He is extremely intelligent, charismatic, powerful, capricious, demanding and very, very vain. In this sense he embodies the values of the Izzet (which he named after himself, of course) perfectly: his intelligence and thirst for knowledge combined with his destructive power makes him all the Izzet are in one very large and scaled body. The dragon's relationship with [[Planeswalker]]s is unknown: he unwittingly has [[Ral Zarek|one in his employ]], but he could not Planeswalk himself despite his vast intelligence and it is unknown if he even knew about the other planes at all.

He is also one of the oldest creatures on Ravnica, being at least 15,000 years old. As the millennia went on he appeared less and less in public, eventually retreating into privacy about 7500 years after the founding of the Pact. Just after the Decamillennial, the ten thousandth anniversary of the Guildpact he appeared again to fight against the Nephillim, the [[Cthulhu|Old Gods]] of Ravnica. They injured him and the Firemind retreated towards the north pole, claiming "he was bored of the fight". After this he was never seen again, and many thought he had vanished for good.

Niv-Mizzet had not vanished for good, however, and after the reinstatement of a new but non-magically empowered Guildpact he signed it on behalf of the Izzet. After his return he began to fervently research the Implicit Maze, and ordered Ral Zarek to investigate the leylines and streets of Ravnica. After his investigations were done Niv-Mizzet announced his findings to the rest of the city and started the run for the Implicit Maze.

Niv-Mizzet appears on four cards. His first two iterations, a 4/4 and a 5/5 with flying, both cost 2UURR. Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to a creature or player whenever you draw a card, and you can draw for 1 when you tap him. Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius has you draw a card whenever it deals damage to a player and can ping a creature or player for 1 when you pay UR. His third iteration as Niv-Mizzet, Parun ups the colored man commitment to UUURRR for another 5/5 flyer who draws you a card whenever any player casts an instant or sorcery and pings any target for one when you draw. This means that Niv-Mizzet combos with himself, which makes perfect sense given Niv-Mizzet's vanity: ping a player for 1 with the Dracogenius, draw a card, then ping for another 1 with the Firemind.

His latest incarnation from War of the Spark is a marked departure from all of the other Niv-Mizzet cards. With a casting cost of [[WUBRG]], this version of him represents him embracing the powers of the Guildpact after dying (but getting better) and ascending into a greater being to fight [[Nicol Bolas|Nicky B]]. He's a 6/6 Dragon Avatar with flying. When he enters the battlefield, you get to sift through the top ten cards of your deck, and put any cards with a unique color pair into your hand.

===Guild Champions===
[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?multiverseid=97208 Tibor and Lumia] are a husband and wife team of wizards: the wise and noble Tibor can grant Flying to a creature whenever you cast a Blue spell while the hot-headed Lumia pings all non-flying creatures for 1 whenever you cast a Red spell. They didn't do anything in the story of Ravnica.

[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?multiverseid=369062 Melek, Izzet Paragon] was going to be the Maze Runner for the Izzet but Ral Zarek killed him out of of jealousy and took his place. He lets you play with the top card on your deck revealed, and if it's an instant or a sorcery you can cast it with the added bonus of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191322 Twincasting] it.

===Others===
The afore-mentioned [[Ral Zarek]] is one of the highest ranking members of the Izzet and reports directly to Niv-Mizzet.

Crix is a female goblin engineer once in the service of the demented magelord Zomaj Hauc. He enhanced her with superior intelligence, speed and flight (by ways of [[awesome|pyromana powered jets in her metal shin bones]]). She was instrumental in the plan of the magelord to hatch three dragon eggs he found earlier and wanted to use the hatchlings to gain control over the city and defeat Niv-Mizzet. Crix' enhancements proved to be the magelord's downfall when she aligned herself with a [[party|group dedicated to defeating him]], which netted her a promotion to Master Engineer and access to the Firemind.