Melek, Izzet Paragon

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

2 known combos.

• Melek, Izzet Paragon + Ghostly Flicker + Mystic Sanctuary
  Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
  View on Commander Spellbook
• Melek, Izzet Paragon + Memory Lapse + Storm-Kiln Artist
  Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite magecraft triggers
  View on Commander Spellbook

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  Melek doesn’t affect the timing rules associated with when you can cast the card. If it’s a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  You still pay all costs for that spell, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs, such as overload costs. Although you can’t pay additional costs for the copy that’s created, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too. For example, if a player sacrifices a 3/3 creature to cast Fling, and you copy it, the copy of Fling will also deal 3 damage to its target.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  If the spell being copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. You can’t choose a different one.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  The top card of your library isn’t in your hand, so you can’t suspend it, cycle it, discard it, or activate any of its activated abilities.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  Instant and sorcery cards with miracle allow a player to cast a card immediately upon drawing it. If you cast a spell this way, you’re casting it from your hand, not your library. Melek’s ability won’t trigger.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, the new top card won’t be revealed until you finish doing so.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  When the last ability resolves, it creates a copy of the spell. You control the copy. That copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger. The copy will then resolve like a normal spell, after players get a chance to cast spells and activate abilities.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  When playing with the top card of your library revealed, if an effect tells you to draw several cards, reveal each one before you draw it.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  If the spell being copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Debt to the Deathless has), the copy has the same value of X.
• 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
  Melek’s last ability will copy any instant or sorcery spell you cast from your library, not just one with targets.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast