GreenLegendary Creature — Human ArtificerOviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
Mana value1Rank#13,781
The Commander
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: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
, : Create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Guide
Gameplan
Oviya is a mono-green token-and-artifact engine commander: drip out 1/1 Servos early to build a board, then convert that width into a massive X/X Construct that scales with your creature count. You ramp hard, flood the board with tokens, and either go wide for a beatdown or pump the team for a single explosive swing.
Strengths
- Cheap one-mana commander that turns excess mana into a board every turn
- Construct token scales explosively in go-wide token decks
- Mono-green gives access to the best ramp in the format, fueling both activated abilities
- Token generation synergizes with sacrifice, untap, and anthem effects
Weaknesses
- Both abilities are slow, sorcery-speed, and tax your mana heavily without untap support
- Relies on the commander surviving and tapping, so removal and tap-down hose the plan
- Mono-green lacks board wipe protection, card-draw quality, and interaction other colors enjoy
- Tokens are vulnerable to a single wrath, collapsing the Construct's size too
Key Cards
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Lets Oviya tap the turn she lands and untaps her, doubling your token output each turn.
- Doubling Season — Doubles every Servo and effectively makes Constructs come with backup, supercharging the engine.
- Cryptolith Rite — Turns your army of Servos into mana, letting you re-fuel Oviya's expensive activations repeatedly.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — Converts your wide Servo board plus a giant Construct into a lethal alpha strike.
- Ashnod's Altar — Sacrifices tokens for mana to keep activating Oviya and enables aristocrat lines.
- Cathars' Crusade — Every token entering pumps your whole board, making even small Servos terrifying.
Upgrade Path
Add untap enablers (Thousand-Year Elixir, Magewright's Stone, Umbral Mantle) so Oviya can activate multiple times per turn, and lean on token doublers (Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, Mondrak) to multiply output. Improve your mana with green's premium ramp (Sol Ring, Nature's Lotus, Cryptolith Rite) and add a hard finisher like Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes; finally, include protection such as Heroic Intervention and Boros Charm-style effects to defend against the board wipes that otherwise wreck you.
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
- ▸Overrun-style alpha strike with Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede
- ▸Swinging with one or more enormous X/X Constructs
- ▸Aristocrat drain via Blood Artist effects sacrificing endless Servos
- ▸Going wide and grinding through combat with anthems like Cathars' Crusade
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide — Oviya endlessly manufactures Servos and a scaling Construct to flood the battlefield.
- Artifacts — Every token she makes is an artifact creature, feeding affinity, improvise, and artifact payoffs.
- Aristocrats — Cheap Servo tokens are perfect fodder for sacrifice outlets and drain effects.
- +1/+1 Counters / Stompy — Anthem and counter synergies turn the wide board and huge Construct into overwhelming damage.
Combos
- Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter + Intruder Alarm
→ Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Cloudstone Curio + Earthcraft + Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite storm count
- Yomiji, Who Bars the Way + Phyrexian Altar + Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter + Myth Unbound + Phyrexian Altar + Mirage Mirror
→ Infinite card draw, Near-infinite ETB, Infinite draw triggers
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
