Orysa, Tide Choreographer

Orysa wants you to build a wide, defensive board of creatures that survives and grows over time. Since she costs three generic mana less when your creatures have 10+ toughness, you're rewarding a defensive, creature-heavy strategy with cheaper casts and card draw. The core plan is to fill the board with efficient blue creatures (especially those with higher toughness), ramp into Orysa early, then use her discount to cast her repeatedly or chain other spells while drawing cards. You're not trying to win through combat damage so much as generating value and card advantage until you establish a commanding position.

Once Orysa lands, every enter trigger refills your hand, letting you chain spells and threats. Stack creatures that have solid toughness-to-mana ratios: Merfolk lords and utility creatures that both enable the discount and provide evasion or utility. Blue's cantrips and card draw become absurdly efficient when Orysa is in play, letting you assemble the pieces you need faster. Win through a mix of evasive damage, card advantage turning into threats, or occasionally a surprise combat swing once you've drawn most of your deck.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.