volo by PolCarpool

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Itinerant Scholar and Haunted One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Volo, Itinerant Scholar + Haunted One deck is a Wizard-tribal build that leans heavily on changeling synergies to fuel a card-advantage engine and a resilient combat plan. The commander's token, Volo's Journal, can draw multiple cards per activation once enough creature types are noted, while the Background grants undying and +2/+0 to all creatures sharing a creature type each time a commander creature is tapped. The deck's primary win path is an infinite-mana combo (Aphetto Alchemist + Pemmin's Aura/Freed from the Real + a mana rock) that powers a game-ending Galecaster Colossus activation. A secondary combat plan leverages stacked +2/+0 bonuses from repeated untaps to overwhelm opponents with pumped Wizards and changelings.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Aether Adept
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Amoeboid Changeling
  • 1 Aphetto Alchemist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Archmage of Echoes
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Cairn Wanderer
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Galecaster Colossus
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Honor-Worn Shaku
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 18 Island
  • 1 Kelpie Guide
  • 1 Lord of the Unreal
  • 1 Lose Focus
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mischievous Sneakling
  • 1 Mistwalker
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Runed Stalactite
  • 1 Scion of Oona
  • 1 Shapesharer
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Silumgar Monument
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Spitting Sliver
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Survivors' Encampment
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree Mascot
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Venomous Changeling
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Volo, Itinerant Scholar
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Retort