Orvar, the All-Form
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Orvar, the All-Form
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Treachery Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Gain control of all creatures
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite proliferate
- Infinite storm count
- Clockspinning Biovisionary Infinite
- Win the game
- Great Whale Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Palinchron Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Peregrine Drake Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Spark Double Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite proliferate
- Infinite storm count
- Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite tapped Island tokens
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
15 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-02-05
The subtype Shapeshifter that appears on the type line is mostly there to reinforce the flavor. A creature card with changeling is just as much an Elf, a Dwarf, a Sliver, a Goat, a Coward, and a Zombie as it is a Shapeshifter.
- 2021-02-05
For the second triggered ability, you can choose any permanent as the target, regardless of who controls it.
- 2021-02-05
If the permanent being copied is itself a token, the token created by the last ability copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it.
- 2021-02-05
For the first triggered ability, the instant or sorcery spell can target other things if it also targets one or more permanents you control; however, the token you create can copy only permanents you control that are targets of the spell. If the spell targets more than one permanent you control, you choose which permanent the token is copying as you create the token.
- 2021-02-05
Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.
- 2021-02-05
If the permanent being copied has X in its mana cost, X is 0.
- 2021-02-05
If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type. It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.
- 2021-02-05
The token copies exactly what is printed on the permanent and nothing else (unless that permanent is a token or is copying something else; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it, whether it has any Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- 2021-02-05
Orvar’s first triggered ability resolves (if it resolves; see below) before the spell or ability that caused it to trigger.
- 2021-02-05
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied permanent will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “As [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[This permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied permanent will also work.
- 2021-02-05
If a spell or ability an opponent controls allows or instructs you to choose a card to discard, and you discard Orvar, its last ability will trigger.
- 2021-02-05
If the spell itself has left the stack by that point, use the targets it had when it left the stack to perform the check described above.
- 2021-02-05
If an effect causes a creature with changeling to lose all abilities, it will remain all creature types, even though it will no longer have changeling. This is because changeling applies before the effect that removes it.
- 2021-02-05
If the permanent being copied is copying something else, the token you create will use the copiable values of the that permanent. In most cases, it will be a copy of whatever the permanent is copying. If it’s copying a permanent or card with X in its mana cost, X is 0.
- 2021-02-05
As the first triggered ability tries to resolve, the spell that caused it to trigger and that spell’s targets are checked again. Ignore any target of the spell that has left the battlefield by that point. If all of the permanents you controlled that were targets have left the battlefield by that point, the triggered ability will do nothing and no token will be created. If at least one permanent you control that’s a target is still on the battlefield, the triggered ability will resolve, even if that permanent is now an illegal target for the spell.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Orvar, the All-Form, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ur-Sphinx | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Orvar, the All-Form
7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $5.58
- Foil
- $10.61
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $5.80
Showcase
The List
- Normal
- $3.88
Showcase
- Normal
- $3.12
- Foil
- $8.81
- Normal
- $3.29
- Foil
- $3.28
Promo
Kaldheim Promos
- Normal
- $3.71
- Foil
- $3.30
Promo
Kaldheim Promos
- Foil
- $9.80
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Orvar, the All-Form — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
