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Orvar, the All-Fun — Mono-Blue Weird Tricks & Copy Shenanigans
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $439.64
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Commander

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Orvar, the All-Form

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.

Creature
Orvar, the All-Form (khm) 70

Commander

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Land

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cmm) 985
Cloudpost

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C} for each Locus on the battlefield.

Land
Cloudpost (mrd) 280
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Glimmerpost

When this land enters, you gain 1 life for each Locus on the battlefield. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Glimmerpost (som) 227
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 270
Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Lórien Revealed (ltr) 60
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land
Riptide Laboratory (mh2) 303
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (plst) CMR-361

Land

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Spells combo

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Cerulean Wisps

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Cerulean Wisps (shm) 31
Clockspinning

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Instant
Clockspinning (tsp) 53
Dream's Grip

Choose one — • Tap target permanent. • Untap target permanent. Entwine {1} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Dream's Grip (mrd) 34
Energy Tap

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.

Sorcery
Energy Tap (4ed) 69
Enervate

Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Enervate (ice) 67
Gigadrowse

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Tap target permanent.

Instant
Gigadrowse (gpt) 26
Leap

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Leap (sth) 35
Mind Games

Buyback {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant
Mind Games (sth) 38
Thermal Flux

Choose one — • Target nonsnow permanent becomes snow until end of turn. • Target snow permanent isn't snow until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Thermal Flux (csp) 49
Trait Doctoring

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Trait Doctoring (dgm) 18
Twiddle

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant
Twiddle (8ed) 111
Whim of Volrath

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Instant
Whim of Volrath (tmp) 102

Spells combo

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Card advantage

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (plst) C17-81
Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (stx) 37
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Insight (tmp) 68
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered. Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Creature
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (mid) 59
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59

Card advantage

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Protection

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (woc) 84
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77

Protection

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Tricks

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Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (moc) 353
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (cmm) 98
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (cmm) 387
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 75

Tricks

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Copy target

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Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (woc) 95
Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Scourge of Fleets (cmr) 403
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6
Willbreaker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, gain control of that creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Willbreaker (ori) 84
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (2xm) 308

Copy target

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (woc) 99
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (woc) 148
Misleading Signpost

Flash When this artifact enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Misleading Signpost (woc) 11
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (cmm) 407
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414

Ramp

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copy clone steal

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Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
Mirage Mirror

{2}: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Artifact
Mirage Mirror (cmm) 962
Naga Fleshcrafter

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. Renew — {2}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Naga Fleshcrafter (tdm) 52
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (2xm) 61
Quasiduplicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery
Quasiduplicate (rvr) 55
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities. The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (cmr) 89
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (mom) 77
Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (cmm) 856
Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.

Creature
Thieving Skydiver (znr) 85
Will of the Temur

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Create a token that's a copy of target permanent, except it's a 4/4 Dragon creature with flying in addition to its other types. • Target player draws cards equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.

Sorcery
Will of the Temur (tdc) 24

copy clone steal

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Copy tricks

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Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
Vesuvan Duplimancy

Whenever you cast a spell that targets only a single artifact or creature you control, create a token that's a copy of that artifact or creature, except it's not legendary.

Enchantment
Vesuvan Duplimancy (dmu) 73

Copy tricks

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Removal

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Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (clb) 716
Fumble

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Gain control of all Auras and Equipment that were attached to it, then attach them to another creature.

Instant
Fumble (bbd) 34
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (plst) PLC-44
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (woc) 104
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66

Removal

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Maybeboard

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Crafty Cutpurse

Flash When this creature enters, each token that would be created under an opponent's control this turn is created under your control instead.

Creature
Crafty Cutpurse (c21) 117
Master of Waves

Protection from red Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1. When this creature enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Master of Waves (ddt) 1
Retraced Image

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

Sorcery
Retraced Image (tor) 46
Shimmering Mirage

Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Shimmering Mirage (apc) 30
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (woc) 151

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Sometimes I turn "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"my"},{"insert":" stuff into "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"more"},{"insert":" of my stuff. The joy of this deck is that it never really plays the same way twice.\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"What's the game plan?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Step 1: Look suspicious"},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Step 2: Cast Twiddle on something ridiculous"},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Step 3: Profit"},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nIn practice, this deck plays a flexible, reactive game. I'm sitting behind countermagic, draw spells, and copy effects until it's time to go off in some ridiculous way.\nI might:\n\nCopy your Wurmcoil Engine because I wanted one too."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rite of Replication something dumb at the table."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turn my Mind Stone into 3 Mind Stones because I spun a dumb trick with Cerulean Wisps."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Mystic Reflection on your big creature... and then make "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"my"},{"insert":" 1/1 token turn into it."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Gigadrowse on my own permanents to make extra copies for value."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Willbreaker your stuff because apparently blue "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"can"},{"insert":" steal creatures, just in weird, janky ways."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"How do I win?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"¯\\"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"(ツ)"},{"insert":"/¯\nUsually through value snowballing, copying something scary, or just being the last weirdo standing. Sometimes I Laboratory Maniac out. Sometimes I copy Peregrine Drake a few too many times and drown in mana. Sometimes I Mystic Reflection your whole board into 1/1 cows.\nMore often than not, the win is just seeing how sideways I can take a game before anyone stops me.\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Signature Cards & Pet Moves"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Mystic Reflection"},{"insert":" — The ultimate \"hold my beer\" card. Turns your creatures, tokens, or even your opponent's scary threats into something deeply silly."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Willbreaker"},{"insert":" — One of the most fun cards in the deck. Suddenly every Twiddle is a Threaten."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Strionic Resonator"},{"insert":" — Copies Orvar triggers, because clearly things weren't dumb enough already."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Clockspinning / Mind Games / Gigadrowse"},{"insert":" — Instant-speed jank that makes extra creatures or copies of important things at just the right (or wrong) time."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Final Thoughts"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is my favorite deck because it's pure chaos energy disguised as a mono-blue control shell. People think I'm just sitting there with counterspells — and I "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"am"},{"insert":" — but I'm also just waiting to turn your big scary creature into 4 copies of a Thieving Skydiver.\nI built this deck to "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"interact"},{"insert":" — often in unexpected, weird, or funny ways. It's not about lockdown or oppression — it's about creative problem-solving, stealing cool toys, and making people laugh (before making them cry).\n\nPlay Pattern Warning:"},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you sit down with me and say \"don't worry, my deck does weird stuff\" — I'm "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"copying"},{"insert":" that energy. Literally."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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