Orvar, the cEDH-Form

Commander / EDH* Buyback Mono-Blue Tokens

Sarinar

Instant (32)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Chilling Trap
• 1x Clockspinning
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Dream's Grip
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Leap
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Moonlace
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Snap
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thermal Flux
• 1x Twisted Image
• 1x Whim of Volrath

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Land (27)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Cloudpost
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 14x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tolaria West

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Treachery

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Shipwreck Dowser
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Tome Raider
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Aquitect's Will
• 1x Energy Tap
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Slip Through Space
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

Creature (4)

• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Sower of Temptation

Artifact (3)

• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Screw it. Full power Orvar.

This deck aims to win quickly by drawing or tutoring through the deck and getting either the janky Peregrine Drake/Treachery + Whim of Volrath/Clockspinning or just Spellseeker, which is a one-card wincon opening a complicated line with a bunch of steps. I'll put that in a spoiler.

There are a bunch of other combo possibilities with this deck, including of course Cloud of Faeries + High Tide + Whim of Volrath , as well as cards like Sapphire Medallion and Mystic Sanctuary.

Isochron Scepter can work up an infinite draw combo with Dream's Grip and Coveted Jewel, but it is generally useful as it can just be a targetted counterspell/cantrip on a stick and generate value, and due to Orvar's ability, you can just copy it and imprint Dream's Grip with the new ETB.

Another shenanigan worth mentioning is the chance of drawing into Sakshima of a Thousand Faces and cloning Orvar! If you have a buyback spell on hand, five Orvars will get you infinite lands and mana.

Also, note that this deck is nondeterministic. If you want to win, you need to either draw through and play Thassa's, or you need a card like Venser, Shaper Savant on the board so you can bounce everything with a buyback spell loop.

Spellseeker Combo Line Show

Start: 4 Islands, Mana Crypt, Orvar, the All-Form in play, Spellseeker in hand, and no possible attacks.

1. Cast Spellseeker. (3 Islands untapped)
2. Find Essence Flux.
3. Essence Flux targeting Spellseeker. (2 Island untapped)
4. Find High Tide and Energy Tap.
5. Cast High Tide. (1 Island untapped)
6. Energy Tap targeting Spellseeker. (0 Islands, floating)
7. Find Dream's Grip.
8. Resolve Energy Tap. (0 Islands, floating)
9. Dream's Grip with entwine, untapping Island and tapping Spellseeker. (0 Islands, floating)
10. Copy Spellseeker with Orvar, the All-Form's trigger.
11. Find Siren's Ruse.
12. Resolve Dream's Grip. (1 Island, floating)
13. Siren's Ruse targeting Spellseeker. ( floating)
14. Find Snap and Hidden Strings.
15. Hidden Strings targeting 2 Islands to untap, copying an Island. (3 Islands)
16. Snap targeting Spellseeker. (2 Islands)
17. Find Reality Spasm.
18. Resolves Snap. (4 Islands, Spellseeker in hand)
19. Reality Spasm for = 6, untapping 5 Islands and Spellseeker. (Spellseeker in hand)
20. Copy Spellseeker with Orvar, the All-Form's trigger.
21. Find Chain of Vapor.
22. Resolve Reality Spasm. (5 Islands, Spellseeker in hand)
23. Chain of Vapor targeting Spellseeker. (4 Islands, floating, Spellseeker in hand)
24. Find Transmute Artifact.
25. Resolve Chain of Vapor, and sacrifice a tapped Island to chain to Mana Crypt (4 Islands floating, Spellseeker, Mana Crypt, and Transmute Artifact in hand)
26. Cast Mana Crypt. (4 Islands, floating, Spellseeker and Transmute Artifact in hand)
27. Transmute Mana Crypt for Coveted Jewel (1 Island, floating, Spellseeker in hand)
28. Tap Coveted Jewel for Spellseeker (1 Island, floating)
29. Find Whim of Volrath
30. Whim of Volrath targeting Coveted Jewel.

Start: 3 Islands, Mana Crypt, Orvar, the All-Form in play (not summoning sick), Spellseeker in hand, an opponent has no blocks.

1. Cast Spellseeker (2 Islands untapped).
2. Find Hidden Strings.
3. Hidden Strings to untap 2 Islands. Cipher onto Orvar, the All-Form. (3 Islands)
4. Attack with Orvar, the All-Form.
5. Cast the ciphered Hidden Strings targeting Island and Spellseeker.
6. Copy Spellseeker with the Orvar, the All-Form trigger.
7. Find Essence Flux
8. Resolve Hidden Strings untapping Island and Spellseeker. (4 Islands)
9. Essence Flux targeting Spellseeker. (3 Islands)
10. Find High Tide and Energy Tap.
11. Cast High Tide. (2 Islands)
12. Energy Tap targeting Spellseeker. (1 Island, floating)
13. Find Snap.
14. Resolve Energy Tap. (1 Island, floating)
15. Snap targeting Spellseeker. (1 Island, floating)
16. Find Reality Spasm
17. Resolve Snap (3 Islands, floating, Spellseeker in hand)
18. Reality Spasm for = 6 targeting 4 Islands, Mana Crypt, and Spellseeker. (0 Islands, nothing floating, Spellseeker in hand)
19. Copy Spellseeker with Orvar, the All-Form's trigger.
20. Find Transmute Artifact.
21. Resolve Reality Spasm untapping 4 Islands, Mana Crypt and Spellseeker. (4 Islands and Mana Crypt untapped, Spellseeker in hand)
22. Transmute Artifact sacrificing Mana Crypt. Find Coveted Jewel. (1 Island, Spellseeker in hand)
23. Cast Spellseeker from hand tapping Coveted Jewel.
24. Find Dream's Grip.
25. Dream's Grip with entwine untapping Coveted Jewel and tapping Spellseeker. (0 Islands, nothing floating)
26. Copy Spellseeker with Orvar's trigger.
27. Find Whim of Volrath.
28. Resolve Dream's Grip untapping Coveted Jewel and tapping Spellseeker.
29. Whim of Volrath targeting Coveted Jewel.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Cloud of Faeries + High Tide + Whim of Volrath
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.23
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone
Folders	Cedh, Great Decks