Volo by pvtfloppy

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Simic midrange deck utilizes Volo, Guide to Monsters to double the value of creature spells that possess distinct creature types. Supported by an efficient suite of cheap mana dorks and land ramp, the deck routinely deploys Volo on turn 3. It quickly follows up with high-impact creatures such as Railway Brawler, Silverback Elder, and Spark Double, rapidly creating overwhelming battlefield presences. The game plan culminates on turns 5 to 6 by translating doubled board states into table-wide lethal combat damage using enablers like Pathbreaker Ibex, Triumph of the Hordes, or Concordant Crossroads. Flexible interaction like Cyclonic Rift, Beast Within, and efficient counterspells protects the board against sweepers while disrupting faster opposing lines. Even without Volo, standalone threats and clone synergies maintain strong independent pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Audience with Trostani
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biowaste Blob
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breaker of Armies
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Dutiful Replicator
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myconid Spore Tender
  • 1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor