"Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" - Volo, probably

Commander / EDH Casual Clone GU (Simic) Shapeshifter Tokens

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Creature (37)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Sakashima's Protege
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selesnya Eulogist
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Thought Sponge
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Volo, Itinerant Scholar *f-etch*
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

Land (33)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brokers Hideout
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Ongoing Investigation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Reap
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Three Visits

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Errant, Street Artist
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mystic Remora

Artifact (1)

• 1x Imposter Mech

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Maybeboard

Creature (25)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Clone
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Quandrix Cultivator
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x World Breaker

Land (13)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (4)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Gift
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x The Great Henge

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Gaea's Will
• 1x Hour of Eternity
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Road of Return
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Back from the Brink
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Instant (3)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song

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A Volo deck, with some Clones (because copying--and doubling--your Opponents' stuff is always fun. Riku of Two Reflections was my first ever Commander deck, and I'm treating this as it's spiritual successor except with only the good Colors. :P)

I have recursion and Exile effects to potentially clear the Graveyard of Shapeshifters[/Illusions] that end up there so that they don’t conflict with Volo. Everything else is a unique creature type (except Greenwarden of Murasa, but it Exiles itself so it’s fine.)

This deck has a bunch of alters, but most notably 2 sets of Land panoramas which I lovingly refer to as my "Tokaido Lands" (a reference to the panoramas in the board game Tokaido,) whose assembling I treat as a sort of mini-game within a game of Commander (hence the Land tutors/fetches.)

Basic Land Panorama

Dual Land Panorama

Edit; 08/07/22 changes:

• Tropical Island => Dreamroot Cascade no, wait, Fabled Passage will be better (sold my duals. besides, in this deck I'd mostly be fetching panorama pieces for the self-appointed "mini-game.")
• Considering Errant, Street Artist (not sure what to cut though. It's basically a Strionic Resonator on legs. Can't really fit it, and is worse than Strionic.)
• New Ape Shaman?

Thoughts:

Destiny Spinner conflicts w/ Volo as a Human, but you don't need two copies of it for it's effect, and it protects the rest of the deck from Counterspells. The fact that it can be countered itself is kind of concerning, but the other options in Allosaurus Shepherd and Prowling Serpopard conflict with other Creature Types and/or only effect Green Spells.

Spark Double gets you 3 copies of Volo, which is likely better than Bramble Sovereign (aside from fringe political uses), no?

I pruned most of the Clones without special abilities, though I would have liked to keep in Stunt Double for it's Flash (great w/ Seedborn Muse) and Gigantoplasm for it's ability to kill itself to copy a death trigger or even be a win-con/mana-sink in the late game.

Tempted to include Deadeye Navigator purely because Fierce Empath can find it (along with it's combo partner, Great Whale.) Or maybe Survival of the Fittest so I can use it to find Temur Sabertooth easier.. Didn't want to focus too much on tutors, since I don't want every game to feel the same, so I think I'll keep them out for now.. Will see.

Kinda tempted to run Fabled Passage just to maximize on panorama fetching..

Took out Creeping Renaissance as it costs a lot of Mana, and when compared to something like Reap, it leaves much to be desired.. And after cutting most of the Clones, exiling/returning Shapeshifters from the Graveyard isn't as big of a deal anymore.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WBR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 3 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.60
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W, Volo's Journal