CARDMARKET VOLO by user5358149

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic Creature Midrange strategy commanded by Volo, Guide to Monsters. Its game plan centers on maintaining a wide diversity of creature types so that Volo's cast-trigger duplicates every creature spell into a token copy. The deck spends its opening turns accelerating mana through two-mana land ramp and mana creatures. Once Volo enters on Turn 3, the deck deploys high-utility creatures on Turn 4 to establish continuous card advantage through engines like Elemental Bond and Garruk's Uprising. On Turn 5, it creates an overwhelming must-answer board state by duplicating massive threats such as Avenger of Zendikar or Railway Brawler. After surviving a single opponent turn cycle, the deck closes the game on Turn 6 through massive trample damage from End-Raze Forerunners, God-Eternal Rhonas, or Echoing Equation. Standalone beaters provide a reliable backup plan if the commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Augmenter Pugilist // Echoing Equation
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Battle Mammoth
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Esix, Fractal Bloom
  • 1 Farseek
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Mesmerizing Benthid
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast