Firja

Format: Commander

Commander: Firja, Judge of Valor

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov reanimator strategy helmed by Firja, Judge of Valor. It uses efficient discard outlets, cycling creatures, and targeted graveyard tutors like Buried Alive and Lively Dirge to place devastating high-mana creatures into the graveyard early. From turns 3 to 5, it leverages cheap reanimation spells such as Animate Dead, Victimize, and Living Death to deploy overwhelming game-dominating threats like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, Ashen Rider, and Archfiend of Ifnir far ahead of schedule. While Firja, Judge of Valor provides steady card selection and graveyard stocking whenever two spells are cast in a turn, the deck operates with complete independence from its commander. It controls the table using potent exile removal and asymmetric stax pieces before closing out games with massive combat swings and Gray Merchant of Asphodel devotion drains.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
• 1 Ashen Rider
• 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1 Avatar of Woe
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Bone Miser
• 1 Bone Shards
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Collector's Vault
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Conspiracy
• 1 Curtains' Call
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Eclipsed Steppe
• 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Firja, Judge of Valor
• 1 Ghostway
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Key to the City
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Liliana Vess
• 1 Liliana's Contract
• 1 Lively Dirge
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Obzedat's Aid
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Oversold Cemetery
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 6 Plains
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Putrid Imp
• 1 Raffine's Informant
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Reya Dawnbringer
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
• 1 Shakedown Heavy
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Skirge Familiar
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Spectacular Pileup
• 1 Starfield Shepherd
• 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Sun Titan
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 The Cruelty of Gix
• 1 The Eternal Wanderer
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Turbulent Moor
• 1 Umbral Expanse
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Victimize
• 1 War Room