Firja 21 Sep 2026 by user7883498

Format: Commander

Commander: Firja, Judge of Valor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Orzhov reanimator deck is commanded by Firja, Judge of Valor, who converts double-spell turns into card selection and self-mill. The game plan focuses on discarding or tutoring high-impact bombs such as Archfiend of Ifnir, Ashen Rider, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel into the graveyard using cards like Buried Alive, Putrid Imp, and Ripples of Undeath. The deck then uses efficient reanimation spells including Animate Dead, Victimize, and Living Death to return these threats to the battlefield well ahead of their mana curve. In the midgame, asymmetric control pieces like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines and Dauthi Voidwalker stifle opposing engines while Gray Merchant of Asphodel and flying demons deplete life totals. The deck features high engine resilience, readily recurring destroyed threats directly from the graveyard to close games across two combat cycles.

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