orvar_paper by doublevp

Format: Commander

Commander: Orvar, the All-Form

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

Orvar, the All-Form rewards cheap spells that target the deck's own permanents. The main plan is to establish an early creature, cast Orvar, and use cards such as Cerulean Wisps, Leap, Shore Up, or Twiddle to create token copies. Draw creatures turn those copies into card advantage, while Kindred Discovery, Coastal Piracy, Panharmonicon, and Master of Waves can scale the board. The deck is strongest when it combines a copied enter-the-battlefield creature with a protection spell or a bounce effect. Its weaknesses are slow assembly, high-cost finishers, limited tutoring, and a lack of a deterministic kill. It can eventually create a wide board through Rite of Replication, Stolen Identity, or Saheeli's Artistry, but those cards do not reliably arrive together with the mana and protection required for a table kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Augur of Bolas
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Cerulean Wisps
  • 1 Cloudkin Seer
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Shard
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Dream's Grip
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Fleeting Distraction
  • 1 Gigadrowse
  • 1 Hidden Strings
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 32 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Master of Waves
  • 1 Merchant of Secrets
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Minn, Wily Illusionist
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pondering Mage
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Ripple
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Riftwing Cloudskate
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saheeli's Artistry
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Sea Gate Oracle
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Foundry
  • 1 Sower of Temptation
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Stolen Identity
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Thermal Flux
  • 1 Triton Tactics
  • 1 Twiddle
  • 1 Twitch
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wash Out