OrzhovLegendary Creature — Human ClericRavos, Soultender
Mana value5Rank#9,246PartnerYes
The Commander
Flying
Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Guide
Gameplan
Ravos is a recursion engine and anthem on a stick: every upkeep he buys back your best creature while pumping your board. You grind the game out with value creatures, sacrifice loops, and constant reanimation until your opponents run out of answers, then close with a wide board or a combo. Partner lets you pair Ravos with a second commander to deepen the strategy.
Strengths
- Built-in recurring reanimation every turn provides huge card advantage and resilience
- Anthem effect makes go-wide token and aristocrat strategies hit much harder
- Partner keyword adds a free second commander, expanding consistency and options
- Black-white access to premium removal, tutors, and reanimation
Weaknesses
- Five mana and the recursion only triggers on upkeep, so he's slow to come online
- Returning to hand (not the battlefield) is slower than true reanimation
- No evasion granted to the team beyond his own flying
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate, which shuts off his main engine
Key Cards
- Tymna the Weaver — The premier Ravos partner, turning your wide attacking board into a card-draw engine.
- Reveillark — Loops with sacrifice outlets and Ravos to recur creatures and fuel infinite value or aristocrat kills.
- Karmic Guide — Pairs with Reveillark and a sac outlet for reanimation loops while Ravos buys back pieces.
- Viscera Seer — Free sacrifice outlet that enables persist/blink loops and aristocrat combos.
- Blood Artist — Converts your recursion and sacrifice loops into a direct life-drain win condition.
- Sun Titan — Recurs low-cost permanents each combat, doubling down on Ravos's value engine.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the curve and add fast mana (Sol Ring, signets) so Ravos lands earlier, and commit to a sacrifice-loop package (Reveillark, Karmic Guide, Viscera Seer, Blood Artist) for a deterministic kill. Add tutors like Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Diabolic Intent to find combo pieces, and pick a partner like Tymna for card flow or Kraum for an alternate axis.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Aristocrats drain loops via Blood Artist effects and recurring sacrifice fodder
- ▸Going wide with anthem-buffed tokens for a swarm alpha strike
- ▸Reanimating and looping heavy hitters until opponents can't keep up
- ▸Infinite creature loops (Reveillark/Karmic Guide/Renegade Rallier) with a sac outlet
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — His anthem and recursion fuel endless sacrifice-and-recur loops with drain payoffs.
- Reanimator — Constant upkeep recursion plus black-white reanimation spells reload your best threats.
- Tokens — The +1/+1 anthem turns small token swarms into a lethal board.
- Value Midrange — Recurring ETB creatures grinds opponents out of resources over a long game.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
