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Orvar, the All-Form

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter · {3}{U} · Blue commander

Changeling Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.

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What Orvar, the All-Form 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents.
• Triggered ability · discardWhen a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.
• Keyword · changelingchangeling

What an Orvar, the All-Form deck needs

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

• cheap instants and sorceries that target your own permanents (each makes a token copy)
• permanents worth copying

The Orvar, the All-Form deck plan

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

• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 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
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Orvar, the All-Form

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 Orvar, the All-Form

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Orvar, the All-Form is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Orvar, the All-Form + Peregrine Drake + Mind Games6,571 decks
• Orvar, the All-Form + Peregrine Drake + Whim Of Volrath5,238 decks
• Orvar, the All-Form + Peregrine Drake + Clockspinning5,214 decks
• Orvar, the All-Form + Spark Double + Mind Games4,502 decks
• Orvar, the All-Form + Spark Double + Whim Of Volrath3,877 decks
• Orvar, the All-Form + Mystic Sanctuary + Dream's Grip + Aquitect's Will + Archmage Emeritus3,565 decks

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