Orc

Orc is a red creature type used for cards that depict a fierce and combative, red-aligned humanoid race with brutish features and often greenish skin. They are found on Dominaria, and on other planes. Orcs are stronger than Goblins, but generally more cowardly.

The first cards to bear the type were Ironclaw Orcs and Orcish Artillery in Alpha.

Dominaria

Aerona

Ironclaw Orcs

The Ironclaw tribe of orcs were known throughout Dominaria for their exemplary combat skills and the Ironclaw Curse. They carve fearsome designs into their skulls.

Sarpadia

The Iron Claw and their veterans were a group of orcs that were extremely cowardly when it came to fighting their enemies, Icatia and the order of Leitbur. However they were not dumb, often using goblins as kamikazes and genetic mutations to fight the Icatian Empire. They created the orgg.

In another note another, more numerous, yet less powerful clan called the Brassclaw was involved with much of the fighting. Their large brass claws were some of the least feared weapons ever known.

Ulgrotha

Somewhere in Dominia, probably on Dominaria itself, a planeswalker recently found a spell-scroll and a battleground complete with over two hundred orc skeletons and the remains of four Craw Wurms, one Craw Giant Chieftan, and a thigh bone of an Elder Land Dragon – possibly the site of the last great Ironclaw orc battle. Some of these orcs were summoned to Ulgrotha during the Great War, and survived the ringing of the Apocalypse Chime. They continued to live on Ulgrotha until a planeswalker used them as soldiers; they are now believed extinct on this plane.

Notable Orcs

• General Khurzog
• Toothlicker Harj
• Malga Phlegmtooth

Trivia

• The Orc subtype incorporates the former subtype General (Orc General).