GreenLegendary Creature — Human ArtificerOviya, Automech Artisan
Mana value4Rank#3,523
The Commander
Each creature that's attacking one of your opponents has trample.
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: You may put a creature or Vehicle card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put an artifact onto the battlefield this way, put two +1/+1 counters on it.
Guide
Gameplan
Oviya cheats fat creatures and Vehicles into play from hand each turn while granting your whole team trample, so you flood the board with big bodies and crash through blockers. You ramp early, deploy a threat per turn with her activated ability, and overwhelm opponents with trampling beaters and Vehicles boosted by +1/+1 counters. Win by going wide and tall, then attacking with everything having trample.
Strengths
- Repeatable free cheat-into-play effect dodges spot interaction and saves mana every turn
- Mono-green gives access to the best ramp, allowing huge mana piles to cast and untap
- Team-wide trample makes chump blocking nearly worthless and pressures everyone
- Synergizes with both creatures and Vehicles, plus rewards artifacts with extra counters
Weaknesses
- Her ability is sorcery-speed and only puts cards from hand, so empty hands shut it down
- Mono-green lacks card draw consistency and has no way to interact with the stack
- Board wipes hit hard since the strategy is creature-density dependent
- She's tap-dependent and slow if removed, and green struggles to protect her
Key Cards
- Craterhoof Behemoth — Drop it free with Oviya for a trample-fueled alpha strike that ends games.
- Skysovereign, Consul Flagship — A powerful artifact Vehicle that enters with two extra counters and pings on attack.
- Cultivate — Cheap ramp and fixing that keeps the mana flowing for Oviya's activation plus big drops.
- Smuggler's Copter — A premium Vehicle that gets two counters from Oviya and loots to refill her hand.
- Heroic Intervention — Protects your board from wipes and targeted removal at a critical moment.
- Beast Whisperer — Converts your steady stream of creature drops into much-needed card advantage.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and big mana ramp like Sol Ring, Carpet of Flowers, and Nyxbloom Ancient to consistently activate Oviya plus hard-cast threats. Improve card flow with Guardian Project, The Great Henge, and Garruk's Uprising so you never run out of cards to cheat in. Tighten the curve toward high-impact finishers (Craterhoof Behemoth, Triumph of the Hordes) and add protection like Heroic Intervention and Ranger-Captain of Eos-style staples to defend against wipes.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Alpha strike with Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede giving everything trample
- ▸Beating down with oversized trampling Vehicles and creatures over several turns
- ▸Going wide with tokens then swinging with universal trample
- ▸Recurring large threats faster than opponents can answer until they're overrun
Archetypes
- Big Creatures (Stompy) — She cheats huge beaters into play and gives them trample to push damage through.
- Vehicles — Her ability deploys Vehicles for free and buffs artifact Vehicles with counters.
- Tokens/Go-Wide — Team-wide trample turns a wide board of tokens into a lethal swarm.
- Ramp/Toolbox — Mono-green ramp fuels casting threats while Oviya provides a per-turn free deployment.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
