Valroz by smartfridgegamer

Format: Commander

Commander: Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Golgari deck helmed by Varolz, the Scar-Striped executes an aggressive Voltron-infect strategy. The game plan leverages Varolz's static ability to grant scavenge to creature cards in the graveyard equal to their printed mana cost. By binning severely undercosted, high-power creatures such as Death's Shadow, Bristlebane Battler, and Slumbering Trudge, the deck cheaply places massive numbers of +1/+1 counters onto low-cost infect creatures like Glistener Elf and Plague Stinger. An evasive attacker buffed to 10 or more power threatens to eliminate opponents in a single combat step as early as Turn 4. The deck relies on dense self-mill spells and discard outlets to assemble its graveyard engine without needing heavy tutor suites. While it boasts blistering single-target lethality and solid board removal, the strategy is vulnerable to instant-speed creature removal during sorcery-speed scavenge windows and lacks proactive stax pieces to slow down faster combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barrow Ghoul
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blight Mamba
  • 1 Blightwidow
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Bristlebane Battler
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with the Gods
  • 1 Contagious Nim
  • 1 Convergence of Dominion
  • 1 Core Prowler
  • 1 Corpse Cur
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Creakwood Safewright
  • 1 Cystbearer
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Death's Shadow
  • 1 Drown in Filth
  • 1 Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death
  • 1 Embalmer's Tools
  • 1 Exemplar of Strength
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Flensermite
  • 1 Flesh-Eater Imp
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Glistener Elf
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lotleth Troll
  • 1 Lupine Prototype
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Monoist Sentry
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nyxathid
  • 1 Ochre Jelly
  • 1 Ooze Flux
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Phyrexian Vatmother
  • 1 Plague Stinger
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rot Wolf
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Septic Rats
  • 1 Sheltering Ancient
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Strangled Cemetery
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm Shambler
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tel-Jilad Fallen
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
  • 1 Vector Asp
  • 1 Viridian Corrupter