Volos Guide To Monsters by cjsgraf

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Simic stompy and token-cloning strategy commanded by Volo, Guide to Monsters. The decklist is carefully curated to avoid creature type overlap, ensuring that nearly every creature cast triggers Volo's copy ability. Early turns focus on establishing a mana advantage through efficient mana dorks and land ramp. Once Volo enters the battlefield, mid-game creatures provide doubled value through enters-the-battlefield abilities, fight effects, and card draw engines like Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond. The endgame revolves around deploying massive finishers such as End-Raze Forerunners, Defiler of Vigor, and God-Eternal Rhonas to multiply board power and trample over opposing defenses. While the deck possesses explosive compounding card draw and combat pressure, its main vulnerabilities are a lack of instant-speed stack interaction and minimal protection against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bronze Walrus
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Copper Myr
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dutiful Replicator
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Golden Ratio
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Loyal Drake
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Multiversal Incursion
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reef Worm
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Undercellar Myconid
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Volo, Itinerant Scholar
  • 1 Voracious Varmint
  • 1 Wash Out
  • 1 Wizard's Staff