Volo, Guide to Monsters B3 ish by Toebox

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Simic midrange stompy deck built around Volo, Guide to Monsters. The strategy exploits Volo's ability to duplicate creature spells that possess unique creature types relative to the battlefield and graveyard. By curating a diverse menagerie of creature types ranging from Halflings and Birds to Hydras, Dinosaurs, and Beasts, the list consistently triggers double enter-the-battlefield effects and builds overwhelming board presence without relying on narrow combos. The early turns focus on dense 1- and 2-CMC ramp to deploy Volo on Turn 3. From Turn 4 onward, casting impactful mid-to-high CMC creatures like Gruff Triplets, Vaultborn Tyrant, and Junk Winder generates massive value, board control, and card draw. The deck finishes the game around Turn 6 by pushing through massive combat damage using overrun effects such as Craterhoof Behemoth and End-Raze Forerunners. A robust interaction suite protects key assets while disrupting opposing win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruff Triplets
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octomancer
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth