OrzhovLegendary Creature — Human WarlockVictor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Mana value3Rank#5,434
The Commander
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, surveil 2 if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, each opponent discards a card. If it's the third time, put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Guide
Gameplan
Victor turns enchantments and Rooms into a snowballing engine: chain multiple Eerie triggers each turn to surveil, strip opponents' hands, and reanimate the biggest creatures from any graveyard. You flood the board with cheap enchantments, blink/unlock Rooms, and convert that engine into card advantage and free fatties. Win by grinding opponents out of resources while assembling a board they can't answer.
Strengths
- Free reanimation from any graveyard once you hit three Eerie triggers in a turn—massive value on a 3-mana commander.
- Built-in card advantage and selection via surveil 2, plus repeatable hand disruption.
- Cheap to cast and easy to rebuild, keeping the engine online after wraths.
- Synergizes with the deep pool of BW enchantments, auras, and Rooms.
Weaknesses
- Engine requires hitting multiple enchantment/Room triggers per turn—single triggers do little.
- Relatively fragile body; needs the board to do anything and is a removal magnet.
- No built-in evasion or protection, so it can stall against interaction-heavy tables.
- Can be slow to set up before the enchantment density comes online.
Key Cards
- Enduring Vitality — A creature-enchantment that re-enters as an enchantment when it dies, giving repeatable Eerie triggers.
- Ghostly Flicker — Blinks enchantment creatures to fire multiple Eerie triggers in one turn for the reanimation tier.
- Doomwake Giant — Constellation-style payoff that punishes the table as your enchantments flood in.
- Smothering Tithe — Premier enchantment ramp that triggers Eerie while funding the whole engine.
- Sanctum of All — A Shrine/Room-style enchantment payoff that stacks value as enchantments accumulate.
- Starfield of Nyx — Animates your enchantments and recurs them, generating repeatable Eerie triggers.
Upgrade Path
Increase your count of cheap, repeatable enchantment triggers—creature-enchantments and blink effects like Ghostly Flicker, Felidar Guardian, and Conjurer's Closet let you reliably reach the third Eerie tier each turn. Add efficient reanimation targets and fill graveyards with self-mill so the third trigger always has a fat payoff. Round it out with strong stax-light enchantments and protection (Sterling Grove, Greater Auramancy) to keep the engine safe from removal.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Reanimating a stream of large or value creatures to overwhelm the board.
- ▸Grinding opponents out via repeated discard and card advantage.
- ▸Aristocrats drain loops with reanimated and token bodies.
- ▸Beating down with enchantment payoffs like Doomwake Giant and animated enchantments.
Archetypes
- Enchantress — High enchantment density naturally fuels Eerie triggers and card draw.
- Reanimator — The third Eerie trigger each turn cheats big creatures onto the battlefield for free.
- Aristocrats — Reanimated bodies plus discard pressure feed sacrifice and drain loops.
- Blink — Flickering enchantment creatures lets you re-fire Eerie triggers to climb the tiers.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
