Despair by user7766707

Format: Commander

Commander: Orvar, the All-Form

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

Orvar, the All-Form commands a monoblue spellslinger and duplication deck that converts low-cost targeted instants and sorceries into exponential permanent advantage. By targeting its own lands, mana rocks, and utility creatures with 1-mana spells like Twiddle and Essence Flux, the deck ramps rapidly and generates high card velocity. The primary game plan aims to resolve Orvar on Turn 4, then assemble an infinite loop on Turn 5 using Spellseeker, Archaeomancer, and High Tide. Once infinite mana and spell recursion are online, the deck loops Venser, Shaper Savant or Aether Channeler to return every opposing permanent and land to its owner's hand, establishing an inescapable lockout on the same turn. The deck is heavily shielded by 1-mana protection spells like Shore Up and Slip Out the Back, which double as combo triggers. Redundant engines such as Vesuvan Duplimancy and the Naru Meha, Master Wizard plus Illusionist's Stratagem combo ensure resilience when the commander is contested.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Aether Channeler
• 1 Aether Spellbomb
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Artful Dodge
• 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Castle Vantress
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Council of Reeds
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Displacer Kitten
• 1 Dive Down
• 1 Dream's Grip
• 1 Echocasting Symposium
• 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Enter the Enigma
• 1 Essence Flux
• 1 Extraplanar Lens
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Gigadrowse
• 1 Hidden Strings
• 1 High Tide
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Illusionist's Stratagem
• 26 Island
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Mechanized Production
• 1 Mizzium Skin
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Orvar, the All-Form
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Powerstone Shard
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Pym Particles
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1 Sakashima the Impostor
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Shore Up
• 1 Silver Myr
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Slip Through Space
• 1 Snapcaster Mage
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Splash Portal
• 1 Stormchaser Drake
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Teferi's Time Twist
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thundertrap Trainer
• 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
• 1 Tolaria West
• 1 Treachery
• 1 Twiddle
• 1 Twitch
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy