Vorel Deck by Matthewsteel

Format: Commander

Commander: Vorel of the Hull Clade

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Simic +1/+1 counters deck built around Vorel of the Hull Clade's ability to double the counters on artifacts, creatures, or lands. The plan is to deploy counter-producing creatures, then use Vorel to double a single threat into a game-ending beater. The primary win condition is combat damage, usually delivered through Herald of Secret Streams making counter creatures unblockable, or Tempest Caller tapping down blockers. A Merfolk subtheme (Kumena's Speaker, Vineshaper Mystic, Tempest Caller) and a "modified" subtheme (Temperamental Oozewagg, Signature Slam) support the main plan. The deck has no infinite combos and no tutors; it wins by grinding out a large board and attacking. Card draw is mostly one-shot (Brainsurge, Urban Evolution, Reverse Engineer), with Shapers of Nature as the only repeatable engine. The deck is heavily reliant on Vorel to be explosive, but the counter plan still functions without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aid from the Cowl
  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 Artisan's Sorrow
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cartouche of Knowledge
  • 1 Cartouche of Strength
  • 1 Crocodile of the Crossing
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Deeproot Warrior
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Druid of the Cowl
  • 1 Edifice of Authority
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 1 Floodwaters
  • 21 Forest
  • 1 Gift of Paradise
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Implement of Examination
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Jade Guardian
  • 1 Jungle Delver
  • 1 Kujar Seedsculptor
  • 1 Kumena's Speaker
  • 1 Leave in the Dust
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Malfunction
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 1 Naga Vitalist
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nimble Innovator
  • 1 Nylea's Presence
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 One With the Wind
  • 1 Ordeal of Thassa
  • 1 Perilous Voyage
  • 1 Prey Upon
  • 1 Renegade Map
  • 1 Reverse Engineer
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Ridgescale Tusker
  • 1 River Heralds' Boon
  • 1 Scrounging Bandar
  • 1 Seek the Horizon
  • 1 Shapers of Nature
  • 1 Signature Slam
  • 1 Simic Cluestone
  • 1 Temperamental Oozewagg
  • 1 Tempest Caller
  • 1 Tishana's Wayfinder
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Trial of Knowledge
  • 1 Universal Solvent
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Verdant Automaton
  • 1 Vineshaper Mystic
  • 1 Void Shatter
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Voyaging Satyr
  • 1 Warriors' Lesson
  • 1 Wild Wanderer
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke
  • 1 Woodland Stream