Varolz Master of Cruelties

Duel Commander* Aggro BG (Golgari) Control Dredge Infect Reanimator

AlexoBn

Attackers (3)

• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Viridian Corrupter

Control (4)

• 1x Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1x Guul Draz Assassin
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Mindslicer

Draw (10)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library

Kill (5)

• 1x Become Immense
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Tainted Strike

Land (34)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 11x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Ramp (7)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Plague Myr

Reanimation (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Reanimate

Recursion (4)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Removal (7)

• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Hero's Demise
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Putrefy

Sac (3)

• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton

Scavenge (4)

• 1x Death's Shadow
• 1x Force of Savagery
• 1x Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1x Phyrexian Soulgorger

Tutor (6)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Utility (9)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Primeval Titan
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Draw (1)

• 1x Grim Haruspex

Other (11)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Wasteland

Recursion (1)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds

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Maybeboard

Attackers (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Rot Wolf
• 1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Control (1)

• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf

Draw (1)

• 1x Smothering Abomination

Getbackstuff (1)

• 1x Deadbridge Chant

Other (12)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Waste Not

Ramp (4)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Manabond
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim

Reanimation (1)

• 1x Exhume

Removal (2)

• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Sudden Death

Scavenge (7)

• 1x Boneyard Wurm
• 1x Doomgape
• 1x Lhurgoyf
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nyxathid
• 1x Splinterfright

Utility (3)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Filth
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll

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This deck aims for a quick and brutal win. Although most people seem to hate infect, it is still a viable way to win fast. Scavenge your infect creatures or your commander and swing for lethal damage.

Reassembling Skeleton + Bloodghast keep your commander on the battlefield (Varolz can almost survive anything and can be cast again or reanimated easily)
If you put your infect stuff on the battlefield simply make sure to have the commander online... otherwise you might gonna have a bad time against blue (lost to my own skithiryx once ...). Therefore added Homeward Path.

Advice, questions and upvotes are welcome

After playtesting and piloting the deck especially in 1vs1 matches (with french banlist) I tried to give the deck a faster start. Therefore I've put in a lot of elves to outrace my opponent. The part after this is quite difficult to manage. You have to keep your opponent in check with Braids, Cabal Minion or other control elements to prepare your kill --> Control until you can one shot your opponent with commander damage, infect creatures or cards like Tainted Strike,Solidarity of Heroes (Don't waste the scavenge cards, otherwise the game will become long...). Infect creatures create a lot of pressure on your opponents. You can buff them easy with dryad arbor and low power creatures for big results. Your opponent will usually not know when you have Solidarity of Heroes or Become Immense in your hand which is a nice combat trick. The deck runs best with Gaea's Cradle and Bazaar of Baghdad but I play those two only online (I will make a separte list during the next days).

I play a hardcore version of the deck on xmage and a more budget friendly one in real life. Right now I move cards from maybeboard (mostly what I already order) to sideboard (sideboard= was in a former version of the deck but has not proven strong enough). Next cards I'll order Abrupt Decay, Bayou, Berserk, Cavern of Souls, Damnation, Gaea's Cradle, Liliana of the Veil, Marsh Flats, Volrath's Stronghold, Twilight Mire, Wasteland so mostly an even stronger mana base. Maybe Thrun, the Last Troll.

I hope you like the deck :)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 3 Mythic Rares 33 - 8 Rares 24 - 2 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.64
Tokens	Elemental 5/3 G, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C