Ormos, Archive Keeper
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Ormos, Archive Keeper

Legendary Creature — Sphinx

Flying

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos, Archive Keeper.

, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

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seshiro_of_the_orochi on Fuck Around And Find Out

9 months ago

Now this is a big pile of beef. Fine choice of creatures! Besides all the obvious bangers, I really like Ormos, Archive Keeper in here.

I have tried to find at least some powerful and/or useful cards you don't already have in here. It was pretty hard I tell you, but I found some:

Terror of the Peaks would obviously be very powerful. The price tag is stupid, though.

Fierce Empath is a great tutor for such a deck.

Impervious Greatwurm is insane with a commander that gives trample.

Nyxbloom Ancient and its little sister Zendikar Resurgent could be good, as well. I especially like Zendikar Resurgent in decks like these. You will get into situations where a boardwipe simply annihilates you, and the enchantment will at least survive some wipes. This makes surviving and rebuilding way easier.

AstroAA on Bant enchantmentz

1 year ago

From here, most of my suggestions are towards just making your deck more efficient and better equipped to deal with potential threats.

Yeah, as shadow63 said, you don't have nearly enough ramp. Personally, I would cut Ormos, Archive Keeper, Nyxbloom Ancient, Dragonlord Dromoka, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope right off the bat and replace them with the likes of Birds of Paradise, Elvish Mystic, Noble Hierarch, and maybe even Sylvan Caryatid. If you wanted to keep a similar effect to Dragonlord Dromoka, I'd advise running Grand Abolisher instead as it's much cheaper CMC-wise.

In addition, I'd completely redo your mana base. I'd recommend things like Command Tower, Mana Confluence, City of Brass, Reflecting Pool, the three shocklands in bant colors, and at least the three fetch lands in bant colors. These would make your deck much more consistent. I'd also work to add in more spot removal like Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, Generous Gift, and Beast Within.

You can also cut stuff like Decree of Silence for cheaper yet similar options. Glen Elendra Archmage is a good and cheaper alternative that does something kind of similar. For Force Bubble you could potentially get away with running Elephant Grass instead. Instead of Sandwurm Convergence you could run something like Norn's Annex. Instead of Open the Vaults you can run Replenish.

BrassLord on Hippo Buddies Ideas

2 years ago

@ king-saproling I’ve actually been playtesting this a bit! I’m struggling to make cuts to add in lands surprisingly, there’s a whole lot of jank I want to include! Will probably not play the stuffy doll combo, despite it having some redundant pieces. Solemnity brood moth seems to be the way to go, as the pieces work well outside of the combo with various cards! Also I’ve been playing around with a Scapeshift shell to get out the lands I need! It also opens up some Field of the Dead plays, so I’ve been playing with both snow covered and regular basic lands… which initially confused a lot of my playgroup hahah. It’s feeling more like a REALLY slow combo deck, which I’m ok with! Gives everyone a chance to play the game! Also having to modify my land base a bit to accommodate for bring to light. As you can produce mana outside of commanders colors with lands like city of brass, etc. it can actually fetch pretty much anything. Just a very cool card! Also, playing around with a solemnity moth line with Uro, into Alchemist's Refuge into Ormos, Archive Keeper for infinite causal life and draw! Which already plays into having both snow and non snow lands, as it’s easier to activate ormos draw ability. Long story short, I’ve put a lot of time and effort thinking about how to maximize this bad deck full of bad cards hahah

BrassLord on Mandatory Loop combos (for game …

2 years ago

Been having fun brewing these! Talking about “bad” causal loops. With the brood moth and Solemnity in play, cast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath. Will draw your deck and all your lands, then put Alchemist's Refuge into play so you can cast cards at instant speed, then play Ormos, Archive Keeper. Just infinite life and card draw replacement! (I mean… at that point lab man or oracle would win the game… but come on his seems more fun!)

Yesterday on Kwain, the drawening

2 years ago

Mind Over Matter, while not exactly a win-con on its own, can allow you to draw your entire deck with Kwain and win via Lab Man & friends.

I also run Ormos, Archive Keeper in my list, but... well, I'm not sure it's actually a good inclusion. Sure is a funny one, though.

Narset, Parter of Veils can be nice if you're tapping Kwain a lot, but expect it to make you a target.

Also, making space for a Mikokoro, Center of the Sea or Geier Reach Sanitarium couldn't hurt for some redundancy. Minamo, School at Water's Edge enters untapped so there isn't much of a downside to running it. I also like Terrain Generator for decks that draw a lot, even though with tonnes of cards in hand there's usually something better to spend mana on.

DrukenReaps on Commanders You Defend?

2 years ago

RNR_Gaming you skipped over several of my points ;) ​

I'd also point out the majority of commanders do the same things every game to some extent. Atraxa decks are all walkers or generic counter decks, Meren decks all reanimate the same handful of things, Lathril is just elfball, Kozilek is just eldrazi tribal, Yuriko is either ninja tribal or big cmc, Edgar goes high cmc control vampires or low cmc aggro vampires. Very rarely do people have obscure decks without predictable strategies. The details can change as they have in my Mairsil deck from time to time. Sometimes I use Oona as my win con, other times tree of perdition, or even just turning Mairsil sideways after hex parasite eats a few planeswalkers. There's more to if you want me to go into it. People that look at Mairsil often limit themselves rather than be creative with him.

"Since release I would say the only thing that 100% goes into almost every list is Asmodious." This is just false and no one ever backs it up when they say it because they can't. Asmodeus the Archfiend, Unmarked Grave, The Deck of Many Things, Endling, Oriq Loremage, Pendant of Prosperity, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Spark Double, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Doom Whisperer, Ormos, Archive Keeper, Teferi's Time Twist, Notion Rain, Shenanigans, Battlemage's Bracers, Netherborn Altar, Lithoform Engine, Sanctum of Eternity, Wizard's Spellbook, and more. These all easily fit into Mairsil lists and make for difficult choices on what to keep and what to cut. Again though if you wanted to only build as optimally as possible there are only 2 or 3 things that lead to victories. Although even one of those didn't exist until after Mairsil was printed, Thassa's Oracle. He gets plenty of toys, people are just unimaginative imo.

Omniscience_is_life on Will Triskaidekaphile Become a New …

2 years ago

Necrosis24 if you have infinite mana, there are so many ways to win!

And Thrasios is a legendary creature--much easier to build around/win with something in the CZ.

But yeah, I like Trisky in Ormos, Archive Keeper ;)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Venerable Soothsayer

2 years ago

I like the design, it's pretty on point. Changing the ability to Scry X is a big power-up, as I mentioned regarding Crystal Ball. Eligeth, Crossroads Augur is drooling all over this card, and both Ormos, Archive Keeper and Atemsis, All-Seeing could become very cool cards in that deck.

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