Orim, Samite Healer

Gameplan

Orim is a defensive mono-white commander that taps to fog small bits of damage, but realistically she's a face for a pillowfort/control shell that grinds out value while keeping you alive. You stall the board with prevention, removal, and taxes, then assemble an inevitability engine or a token army to close. Turn to turn you're deploying mana rocks, protective enchantments, and card-advantage pieces while pointing Orim's prevention at attackers or burn.

Key Cards

• Smothering Tithe — Premier mono-white ramp and card-advantage engine to fix white's biggest weakness.
• Land Tax — Fixes draws and fuels card advantage, critical in a color starved for raw card flow.
• Ghostly Prison — Stacks with Orim's prevention to make attacking you prohibitively expensive.
• Approach of the Second Sun — A self-contained win condition that rewards Orim's long, grindy defensive games.
• Archaeomancer's Map — Provides ramp and fixing while enabling a stable, controlling mana base.
• Heliod, Sun-Crowned — Turns incidental lifegain into board presence and pairs into lifegain combos.

Upgrade Path

Lean into mono-white's best engines—Smothering Tithe, Land Tax, Mind's Eye, and Archaeomancer's Map—to overcome the color's card and ramp deficits. Pick a clear win condition (Approach of the Second Sun or a lifegain combo like Heliod plus Walking Ballista) so your defensive shell actually closes, and add efficient board wipes (Wrath of God, Cyclonic Rift is off-color so stick to Hour of Revelation, Farewell) plus protection like Teferi's Protection to lock games. Trim pure fog/prevention filler that doesn't advance your plan.