we got zoo by funrunner72

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic creature stompy and token-duplication engine commanded by Volo, Guide to Monsters. The primary plan leverages early ramp to cast Volo on turn 3 or 4, followed by deploying unique-type creature spells. Volo copies each qualifying creature spell, doubling enter-the-battlefield abilities and board presence. Draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Beast Whisperer, and Consecrated Sphinx maintain resource velocity across midgame turns. The deck closes games around turn 6 or 7 using overwhelming combat power from Craterhoof Behemoth, God-Eternal Rhonas, or doubled high-power beaters. Reactive interaction features counterspells, bounce from Hullbreaker Horror, and continuous tap-down from Junk Winder. While vulnerable to removal on Volo and graveyard creature-type overlap after board wipes, strong standalone threat quality ensures resilient midgame pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Band Together
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Colossal Badger // Dig Deep
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cone of Cold
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Druidic Ritual
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hill Giant Herdgorger
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Plummet
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Progenitor Mimic
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Purple Worm
  • 1 Quirion Beastcaller
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sagu Wildling // Roost Seek
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Silver Scrutiny
  • 1 Simic Sky Swallower
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Underdark Basilisk
  • 1 Undergrowth Leopard
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast