Firja, Judge of Valor
The second-spell trigger is the clever part here, and it repurposes a mechanic that had usually lived in blue-red spellslinger shells: cast two spells in a turn and something happens. Grafting that onto Orzhov turns it from a tempo payoff into a card-selection engine. Each trigger digs three deep, hands you the best of them, and dumps the other two into the graveyard, which is exactly where an Orzhov deck wants raw material: recursion targets, reanimation fodder, delirium and threshold fuel. So the ability does double duty, smoothing your draws while stocking a resource other cards in the color pair are built to exploit. The 2/4 flying, lifelink body is deliberately modest by comparison, a defensive frame that walls the ground creatures of its weight class and clocks back through the air while gaining a trickle of life. That restraint is the point: the stats stay unassuming so the engine can carry the card. The trigger runs on deckbuilding discipline rather than a marquee combo. You have to reliably chain two spells a turn, which favors cheap interaction and low curves over top-heavy piles. Get that right and Firja becomes a self-replenishing selection loop that also fills the yard on its own schedule; miss it and you have a serviceable, unexciting flier. The design bets on the former, and rewards a build that treats every turn as a two-spell puzzle.
