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Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {3}{R} · Red commander

{1}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. {6}{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Create five tokens that are copies of another target creature you control. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

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What Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{1}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Activated ability{6}{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Create five tokens that are copies of another target creature you control. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

What an Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 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

Best cards for Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

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.

Combos with Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Terror Of The Peaks15,506 decks
• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Fanatic Of Mogis6,213 decks
• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Gray Merchant Of Asphodel3,187 decks
• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Craterclaw Colossus1,824 decks
• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Village Bell-Ringer1,480 decks
• Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Scourge Of Valkas1,473 decks

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