The Backrooms by Conlemagne

Format: Commander

Creator: Conlemagne

Commander: Orvar, the All-Form

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue spellslinger control and clone engine piloted by Orvar, the All-Form. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Orvar safely on turn 4 and using an array of inexpensive, flexible targeting instants to duplicate lands, creatures, and artifacts. By targeting basic Islands or utility lands like Cloudpost, the deck ramps rapidly out of reach of opponents. Midgame engines like Archmage Emeritus and The One Ring convert cheap spells into massive card advantage, which then transitions into game-ending threats like Hullbreaker Horror, Scourge of Fleets, and Roil Elemental. Defensively, cards like Shore Up and Mizzium Skin serve dual purposes by shielding Orvar from spot removal while simultaneously creating token copies. The deck wins by completely wiping opposing boards through repeated bounce triggers and swinging with an overwhelming army of duplicated creatures or Illusion tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Alter Reality
  • 1 Aquitect's Will
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Argent Mutation
  • 1 Artificial Evolution
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Cerulean Wisps
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Cloudpost
  • 1 Copy Land
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dream's Grip
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Extraplanar Lens
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gigadrowse
  • 1 Glimmerpost
  • 1 Hidden Strings
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Infuse
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 19 Island
  • 1 Jolt
  • 1 Magical Hack
  • 1 Mind Games
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Moonlace
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scholar of the Ages
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shimmering Mirage
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thermal Flux
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trait Doctoring
  • 1 Twiddle
  • 1 Twitch
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whim of Volrath
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach