orvar by tamisen

Format: Commander

Commander: Orvar, the All-Form

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue combo and control deck centered around Orvar, the All-Form. The strategy leverages cheap instant-speed targeting spells like Twiddle, Essence Flux, and Snap to trigger Orvar's ability, creating token copies of lands, mana rocks, and high-value creatures. In the early game, the deck accelerates its mana base through efficient artifacts before deploying Orvar on Turn 4 to begin exponentially duplicating resources. While controlling the table with a dense suite of countermagic, the deck digs toward decisive combo lines. It closes the game on Turn 6 by establishing infinite mana with Palinchron and High Tide or Hullbreaker Horror rock loops, then recursively casting Mathemagics via Archaeomancer to force all opponents to draw out their entire libraries in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 27 Island
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Twiddle
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wizard's Staff