Tokens Copy by DouggTaborda

Format: Commander

Commander: Volrath, the Shapestealer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai midrange powerhouse built around Volrath, the Shapestealer, merging +1/+1 counter distribution with token duplication and creature cloning. The primary game plan establishes early mana velocity through green ramp spells and artifacts, setting up counter engines like Bristly Bill, Spine Sower and Innkeeper's Talent before casting Volrath on Turn 5. Once operational, Volrath places -1/-1 counters or targets creatures with +1/+1 counters to become a 7/5 copy of high-impact threats like Giant Adephage, Mossborn Hydra, or Ouroboroid. Token multipliers such as Doubling Season and Second Harvest quickly compound these board states into an overwhelming army of trampling copies. While the deck relies on combat damage and lacks instant-speed infinite combos, its robust redundancy, versatile modal interaction (Cyclonic Rift, Archdruid's Charm), and resilient secondary engines like The Scarab God and Railway Brawler ensure steady, compounding pressure that closes games efficiently across mid-game combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abyssal Harvester
• 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1 Agent of the Shadow Thieves
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archdruid's Charm
• 1 Archenemy's Charm
• 1 Benthic Anomaly
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Cackling Counterpart
• 1 Champion of Lambholt
• 1 City of Death
• 1 Clone Legion
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dollhouse of Horrors
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Esika's Chariot
• 1 Espers to Magicite
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Extravagant Replication
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fight Rigging
• 8 Forest
• 1 Giant Adephage
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Hollowmurk Siege
• 1 Homunculus Horde
• 1 Impostor Syndrome
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 6 Island
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Master Biomancer
• 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
• 1 Mishra's Self-Replicator
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Ouroboroid
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Polyraptor
• 1 Railway Brawler
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spawnwrithe
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Splitting Slime
• 1 Springheart Nantuko
• 1 Stolen Identity
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Cloning of Shredder
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Volrath, the Shapestealer
• 1 Watchful Radstag
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor