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Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Legendary Creature — Kor Cleric · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
Lifelink
Whenever Orah or another Cleric you control dies, return target Cleric card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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What Orah, Skyclave Hierophant actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever Orah or another Cleric you control dies, return target Cleric card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
What an Orah, Skyclave Hierophant deck needs
Plays as cleric typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
- cleric creatures (its text counts them)
The Orah, Skyclave Hierophant deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 28× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Mother of Runes1 mana
- Soul Warden1 mana
- Soul's Attendant1 mana
- Grand Abolisher2 mana
- Disciple of the Vault1 mana
- Giver of Runes1 mana
- Guide of Souls1 mana
- Master of Dark Rites1 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Cartel Aristocrat2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Orah, Skyclave Hierophant is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Doomed Necromancer + Lightning Greaves + Phyrexian Altar144 decks
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle80 decks
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Sister Hospitaller + Ancestor's Chosen + Ashnod's Altar63 decks
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Sister Hospitaller + Ancestor's Chosen + Umbral Collar Zealot44 decks
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Sister Hospitaller + Ancestor's Chosen + Phyrexian Altar39 decks
- Orah, Skyclave Hierophant + Sister Hospitaller + Ancestor's Chosen + Altar Of Dementia34 decks