OrzhovLegendary Creature — Kor ClericOrah, Skyclave Hierophant
Mana value4Rank#13,313
The Commander
Whenever Orah or another Cleric you control dies, return target Cleric card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Guide
Gameplan
Orah turns Clerics into a self-perpetuating value engine: every time a Cleric dies you reanimate a cheaper Cleric, chaining death triggers into massive board states and recursion. Build a tribal aristocrats deck that sacrifices Clerics for value, drains opponents, and grinds them out. You win by attrition or by assembling a sacrifice loop that drains the table.
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Heavily commander-dependent; without Orah the deck loses its engine
- Only reanimates Clerics of strictly lesser mana value, so curve matters and high-CMC Clerics get stranded
- Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog) shuts the engine off
- Can be slow and grindy with weak ramp and reach against fast combo decks
Key Cards
- Viscera Seer — Free sac outlet that lets you trigger Orah at will to chain reanimations and scry.
- Ministrant of Obligation — A Cleric that makes tokens and creates a recursion loop when sacrificed and returned.
- Blood Artist — Turns every Cleric death into incremental drain, converting Orah's loops into a win condition.
- Cathar Commando — Cleric-adjacent flexible removal; more importantly Clerics with utility ETBs become repeatable answers via Orah.
- Doomed Traveler — Cheap Cleric that loops with Orah and a sac outlet for endless tokens and triggers.
- Ashnod's Altar — Free sac outlet that fuels mana while triggering Orah repeatedly for combo potential.
Upgrade Path
Add free sacrifice outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Carrion Feeder) and multiple Blood Artist effects to enable deterministic drain combos. Tighten the curve so reanimation targets stay live, and include tutors like Demonic Tutor and Eladamri's Call to assemble loops. Round out with strong BW staples—Esper Sentinel, Smothering Tithe, and efficient board wipes—to keep pace with higher-power tables.
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
- ▸Infinite or near-infinite drain with Blood Artist effects plus a Cleric sac loop and free outlet
- ▸Grinding attrition: out-valuing opponents until your recursive board overwhelms them
- ▸Lifelink combat damage backed by a wide, resilient Cleric army
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Orah rewards sacrificing Clerics, pairing perfectly with death-payoffs like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat.
- Tribal (Clerics) — The entire ability keys off Clerics, encouraging a dense Cleric subtheme with lords and value bodies.
- Reanimator — Orah continuously returns Clerics from the graveyard, letting you recur powerful ETB Clerics for value.
- Combo — With a free sac outlet, a Blood Artist effect, and two looping Clerics you can drain the whole table.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
