Army of Mites by Chaos_Monarch2559

Format: Commander

Commander: Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is helmed by Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold, focusing on converting combat damage into a wide army of 1/1 Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1. The deck operates on a mid-speed curve, deploying early ramp to cast Ria Ivor on Turn 3 or 4 and generating token swarms during combat. High-impact permanents like Cathars' Crusade, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Anointed Procession, and Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation scale these small tokens into lethal board-wide threats. In addition to combat-focused poison victories, aristocrat payoffs like Corpse Knight, Blood Artist, and Bastion of Remembrance drain opponents as tokens enter and die. A balanced suite of spot removal, asymmetric sweepers, and pillowfort taxes ensures stability against opposing aggression while building toward a decisive Turn 8 elimination.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Gold Dragon
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atraxa's Skitterfang
  • 1 Basilica Shepherd
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charge of the Mites
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crawling Chorus
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Merciless Eviction
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mite Overseer
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Awakening
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Windborn Muse