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I completely agree that Guttersnipe is arguably the strongest non-rare card for Izzet to have.  I've stolen so many games with him and found a new love for throwing Lava Axes at the face.

My only complaint with Izzet is that the non-rare guild cards are so weak!  Frostburn Weird is a good card to have since I've found red and blue 2-drop creatures to be lacking, but all those Izzet sorceries are so weak!  Overload is completely underwhelming when you have cards like Downsize , Mizzium Skin , Dynacharge , and Chemister's Trick .  Most of them are combat tricks, and Izzet is the color of instants and sorceries, not creatures!  The other overload cards, Vandalblast and Electrickery , are also weak.  Only Street Spasm is decent (and even then, the overload cost is so steep!).  I think Izzet sorely needs an expensive sorcery that puts a big creature token with flying into play at uncommon.  There's not enough incentive for me to value Goblin Electromancer that high.  

Yeah, I mostly dislike the Izzet cards. It's just like the original Ravnica block to me in that regard, where I basically loved the blue and red mono-colored cards and drafted blue/red often in Ravnica, but then actually drafted it significantly less in Guildpact where Izzet was an actual guild.