Torpor Orb

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Intruder Alarm
• B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Intruder Alarm
• B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Intruder Alarm
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• Two-card combo with Intruder Alarm (early with Intruder Alarm)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

56 known combos, one of them two-card.

• Intruder Alarm + Torpor Orb
  Produces: Creatures do not untap, Lock
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• Wormfang Manta + Conjurer's Closet + Torpor Orb
  Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
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• Wormfang Manta + Torpor Orb + Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
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Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  Abilities that apply "as [this creature] enters the battlefield," including many abilities that ask a creature's controller to choose a color or creature type, are unaffected.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  Replacement effects are unaffected by Torpor Orb's ability. For example, a creature that enters the battlefield with one +1/+1 counter on it will still receive a +1/+1 counter.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control March of the Machines, which says, in part, "Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature," each artifact will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at the beginning of" in their reminder text.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  Torpor Orb stops a creature's own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that would trigger when a creature enters the battlefield.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  The trigger event doesn't have to specify "creatures" entering the battlefield. For example, Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider from the Lost Caverns of Ixalan release has an ability that says "Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target Pirate you control." If an artifact creature enters the battlefield under your control, that ability won't trigger. If a noncreature artifact enters the battlefield under your control, the ability will trigger.
• 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
  If Torpor Orb and a creature enter the battlefield at the same time, that creature entering the battlefield won't cause triggered abilities to trigger.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast