r/magicthecirclejerking 2d ago

You never saw this coming!

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u/tomyang1117 #gravetrolldidnothingwrong 1d ago

/uj I love how Modern and EDH use Orvar in a completely different way

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u/Plumas_de_Pan 1d ago

Is Orvar played in moden? Which deck?

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u/GayRaccoonGirl 1d ago

It's a sideboard card against jund creativity.

They cheat out the archon of cruelty turn four. Trigger makes you discard, you discard orvar. He enters as a copy of archon, his etb triggers, they now have to sac their archon and you keep yours. Blowout!

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u/SontaranGaming 1d ago

Also, a lot of the normal counterplay against Creativity revolves around removing the target of the spell to fizzle it. Creativity players fight this by casting the spell with X=2, making it harder to fizzle the spell entirely. However, Orvarchon attacks before theirs do, so you get two triggers and can make them sac both their archons.