Orysa, Tide Choreographer
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Bard
This spell costs 
less to cast if creatures you control have total toughness 10 or greater.
When Orysa enters, draw two cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #22620
Orysa, Tide Choreographer puts a repeatable bounce-and-replay engine on the board the moment it resolves — every enter-the-battlefield trigger in your deck becomes a reusable resource. The catch is the mana investment required to activate that loop, which is steep enough that Deadeye Navigator occupies the same niche at a lower activation cost and with broader pairing options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Orysa, Tide Choreographer has any real home — ETB-abuse strategies at the 100-card singleton table give it a dense enough target pool to justify the slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the mana cost and the speed at which those formats close games push it well outside viability. Standard legality is technically true, but the current environment has no shell that wants what Orysa does at this cost. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more resilient engines and no incentive to reach for this.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Orysa, Tide ChoreographerDeadeye NavigatorMind Over Matter
Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Orysa, Tide Choreographer is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a commons box. New-card bulk rarely holds even that floor unless demand spikes, so don't treat this as a stable asset; buy it to play it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.