OrzhovLegendary Creature — Human AdvisorNaomi, Pillar of Order
Mana value5Rank#19,156
The Commander
Whenever Naomi enters or attacks, if you control an artifact and an enchantment, create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with vigilance.
Guide
Gameplan
Naomi is a token-army general who rewards a board full of permanents: keep at least one artifact and one enchantment in play so every attack (and her entry) spits out a 2/2 vigilant Samurai. You ramp into a sticky base of cheap artifacts and enchantments, deploy Naomi turn five, then go wide and convert tokens into a lethal attack or aristocrats engine.
Strengths
- Reliable, repeatable token generation that also blocks thanks to vigilance
- Cheap artifact/enchantment payoffs are easy to assemble in Orzhov
- Tokens fuel both go-wide anthems and sacrifice synergies
- Recurs easily from the command zone to rebuild after a wipe
Weaknesses
- Conditional trigger fizzles if you lose your artifact or enchantment to removal
- Slow without anthems—2/2s alone don't close games fast
- No card advantage or protection baked into the commander
- Vulnerable to board wipes since the strategy is creature-density dependent
Key Cards
- Anointed Procession — Doubles every Samurai token Naomi makes, snowballing your board instantly.
- Esper Sentinel — A cheap artifact that satisfies the artifact condition while drawing cards all game.
- Smothering Tithe — An enchantment that both meets the condition and generates explosive Treasure mana.
- Skullclamp — Turns expendable 2/2 tokens into a relentless card-draw engine.
- Intangible Virtue — Cheap enchantment anthem that pumps your token army and fuels the condition.
- Cathars' Crusade — Each Samurai entering grows your whole team, threatening fast lethal swings.
Upgrade Path
Add token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak), a sacrifice engine (Skullclamp, Ashnod's Altar) and aristocrats payoffs (Bastion of Remembrance, Zulaport Cutthroat) to convert bodies into damage. Improve consistency with cheap, hard-to-remove artifacts and enchantments that double as ramp or card draw (Esper Sentinel, Smothering Tithe, Sword of the Animist). Top it off with a finisher like Craterhoof Behemoth or Approach of the Second Sun and protection like Teferi's Protection to survive wipes.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelming combat damage from a wide, anthem-pumped Samurai army
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat as tokens die
- ▸Overrun-style finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth or Cathars' Crusade swings
- ▸Skullclamp/Welcoming Vampire card advantage grinding opponents out
Archetypes
- Tokens — Naomi continuously produces Samurai that token doublers and anthems turn into a winning board.
- Aristocrats — A steady token stream feeds sacrifice outlets and drain effects like Blood Artist.
- Artifacts/Enchantments Midrange — The condition pushes you toward a value-laden permanent base that supports synergy payoffs.
- Go-Wide Aggro — Vigilant tokens plus anthems let you attack and defend simultaneously for an overrun finish.
Combos
- Naomi, Pillar of Order + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Breath of Fury + Naomi, Pillar of Order + Fervor
→ Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite death triggers
- Breath of Fury + Naomi, Pillar of Order + Mass Hysteria
→ Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite death triggers
- Breath of Fury + Naomi, Pillar of Order + Anger
→ Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite death triggers
- Breath of Fury + Naomi, Pillar of Order + Urabrask the Hidden
→ Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite death triggers
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
