Spellweaver Volute
is an interesting, weird, and silly card. It's also dirt cheap to buy, so why not give it a shot?
Spellweaver Volute requires an instant card in a graveyard (and remember, it can be any graveyard). This deck utilizes fun, cheap, and big instant spells that can be useful at any time and not just in response to other effects. Also, because the spell can be cast without paying the mana cost, you can mix and match whatever colors you wish to use.
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The instant cards I chose:
Advent of the Wurm: I like big creatures, and a 5/5 trampling wurm fits the bill beautifully. You can find copies for as low as $0.25. If you want the strength of numbers, I would suggest Gideon's Phalanx or
Fated Intervention
Fated Infatuation: My answer to summoning more wurms onto the battlefield. If you ever need to you can hard cast for a cheap three mana, and the scrying is a nice bonus.
Fated Conflagration
: Like Fated Infatuation, you can hard cast this spell if you need to. It's a nice hard hitting answer to large creatures and planeswalkers.
Fated Retribution
: If things get really hairy, this board wipe will do the trick.
Searing Wind
: The other poster child of this deck (aside from Spellweaver Volute). It's a large spell, it hits hard, and with the right graveyard set up you can easily end the game by throwing two of these into your opponent's face.
Suggested alternative instant card:
Thought Scour: Fill your graveyard and get an extra card in your hand for just the price of one mana.
Harvest Pyre
: With the use of Stuffy Doll and the nature of the deck filling the graveyard, this is a nice burn spell to use when the graveyard is full of dead cards.
The other requirement of Spellweaver Volute is to use sorcery cards. This means we're gonna go cheap on the price and cheap on the mana!
The sorcery cards I chose:
Faithless Looting: This is kind of a no-brainer. One mana, pick and choose your cards, and it can flashback. A perfect choice.
Tormenting Voice: Once again it's cheap and it lets you cycle through the deck while filling in the graveyard with instants. The other nice thing is that because it requires a discard as an additional cost, you can fill the graveyard with another usable instant before Spellweaver Volute's trigger begins. This way you have another choice if you happen to run out.
Wild Guess
: See Tormenting Voice.
Compulsive Research
: This card is a personal favorite of mine. It's relatively cheap, you get to draw three cards, and then discard two instants for the graveyard. This card can be replaced with whatever you feel like.
Explore
: I wanted to add a little bit of a ramp since Spellweaver Volute is five mana. I could use Rampant Growth, but the beauty of Explore is that you can essentially play another untapped land and you get to draw a card.
Displacement Wave
: I included a single copy of this card because 1) I actually own it and 2) a little disruption never hurts.
Suggested alternative sorcery card:
And I chose one creature for the deck:
- Stuffy Doll: First, it's a cheap card to buy. Second, it's an alternative target for Fated Conflagration if the opponent doesn't have anything on the field or you still want to fry their face off.
Overall, you can easily build this deck for under $20 and it's fun to watch the spells fly on the cheap!
