Voloptuous Whale by riledantics

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic midrange "unique types" value deck helmed by Volo, Guide to Monsters. The plan is to cast creatures that share no type with anything you control or have in your graveyard so Volo copies each spell into a token, flooding the board with doubled sea monsters, shapeshifters, and utility bodies. Card flow comes from enter-the-battlefield draw engines (Elemental Bond, Garruk's Uprising, Tribute to the World Tree) rather than tutors, and the deck closes through combat-trampling, flying, or unblockable beats backed by bounce and soft locks (Junk Winder, Kiora Bests the Sea God, Flood of Tears). There are no infinite combo lines; inevitability is pure board presence plus a dense instant-speed answer suite. Volo is the primary multiplier but not a hard win piece-the 99 still presents large threats and interaction without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Barrier
  • 1 Algae Gharial
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bronze Walrus
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Colossal Whale
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daggermaw Megalodon
  • 1 Deepchannel Mentor
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Flood of Tears
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giant Oyster
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Hermitic Nautilus
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homarid Shaman
  • 20 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Keruga, the Macrosage
  • 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octomancer
  • 1 Purple-Crystal Crab
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reef Worm
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 River Bear
  • 1 Sand Squid
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sigiled Starfish
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spiketail Drake
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Tiger-Seal
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Uthros Psionicist
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Walking Sponge
  • 1 Wall of Kelp
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast