oviya by Cainwolf

Format: Commander

Commander: Oviya, Automech Artisan

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-green stompy engine focused on accelerating into Oviya, Automech Artisan to cheat colossal creatures directly onto the battlefield for just one green mana. Supported by dense one- and two-mana ramp, the deck consistently deploys Oviya on Turn 3 and activates her ability on Turn 4. From there, it cheats devastating behemoths into play, including Blightsteel Colossus, Jumbo Cactuar, Worldspine Wurm, and Galactus, Devourer of Worlds. Redundant cheat enablers like Elvish Piper, Monster Manual, and Defense of the Heart ensure high resilience if the commander is removed. Power-scaling draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Greater Good, and The Great Henge keep the hand fully stocked with giant threats. The primary win condition relies on overwhelming trample combat damage and infect, often doubled by Unnatural Growth or Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus to finish the table by Turn 6. Its primary vulnerabilities are a lack of instant creature interaction and vulnerability to mass exile sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 19 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Hit-Monkey
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Moment's Peace
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Roiling Canopy
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus