Tour Guides Manual to Monsters (duplicated from Creme) by CHughes92

Format: Commander

Commander: Volo, Guide to Monsters

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic creature-based midrange engine built around Volo, Guide to Monsters. The deck leverages an anti-tribal construction where virtually every creature possesses a unique creature type, ensuring Volo reliably copies creature spells on cast. Early turns focus on establishing 1 to 2 CMC ramp to deploy Volo on turn 3. On turn 4, the deck initiates explosive value generation by casting versatile utility creatures like Risen Reef, Fecund Greenshell, and Roaming Throne. By turn 5, the accumulated board translates into a game-ending attack using Craterhoof Behemoth or Pathbreaker Ibex, or resolves an infinite mana loop via Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake. The deck defends its board with efficient counterspells and protective spells like Heroic Intervention and Veil of Summer. While it lacks heavy stax and fast mana rocks, its redundant clone engines and resilient token multipliers provide immense mid-game inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Biowaste Blob
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Cephalid Facetaker
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dutiful Replicator
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octomancer
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riptide Shapeshifter
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rootcast Apprenticeship
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Watchful Radstag
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast