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Commander / EDH* GU (Simic)

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Creature (42)

• 1x Apex Devastator
• 1x Augmenter Pugilist  ^Flip
• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Silverback Elder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Traproot Kami
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vanguard Suppressor
• 1x Venomthrope
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Volo, Itinerant Scholar

Land (32)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 11x Forest
• 8x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 4x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Combine Chrysalis
• 1x Giant's Amulet
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Snake Basket
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Twinning Staff

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Unnatural Selection

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Voidslime
• 1x Wash Away
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Open Into Wonder
• 1x Threats Undetected
• 1x Whelming Wave

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Rite of Undoing

Creature (1)

• 1x Colossal Whale

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

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Maybeboard

Creature (55)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Brood Monitor
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Coveted Peacock
• 1x Dazzling Sphinx
• 1x Endless One
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Nessian Wilds Ravager
• 1x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Nylea, Keen-Eyed
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Sedge Scorpion
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selesnya Eulogist
• 1x Simic Sky Swallower
• 1x Souvenir Snatcher
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tarmogoyf
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Tears
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Winged Coatl
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Enshrined Memories
• 1x Full Flowering
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Long Rest
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x The Crowd Goes Wild
• 1x Time of Need
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Wash Out

Land (5)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Treasure Vault

Artifact (4)

• 1x Esika's Chariot
• 1x Horizon Stone
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Tempting Contract

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Flooded Shoreline
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Seal of Removal
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (7)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Biomass Mutation
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Hornswoggle
• 1x Wipe Away
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

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Okay go ahead and bookmark-- you found it; The best Volo deck ever created.

Now I know what you're thinking: "Where's all the ramp spells? "

This deck has no need for those. You're playing creatures, use those creature's effects instead.

Using extremely cunning strategies involving all sorts of mechanics and rulings, as well as exceedingly careful deck construction working around Volo's restrictions based on creature type, this deck has responses to all sorts of situations.

The current build has a limit of two of any one creature type. That means only two elves, only two shamans, and so on. The exception being beasts, however the majority of those, if not all of them, are mutate effects and thus aren't counted unless they're in the discard pile.

I see lots of Volo decks on the internet that don't seem to understand how his mechanics work or how the rules effect some of the cards that are included in these decks. Is a very difficult commander to use, especially if you don't have an intricate understanding of how his abilities and some of these cards in the deck interact with each other.

It's a safe bet that I've done more research on this than anyone. A lot of the cards you see in this deck are ones other people are starting to copy. Cards nobody thought to use.

Don't let the construction of the deck fool you: Yes it's a lot of creatures, but it's a creature-based deck. Why cast a spell and get an effect once when you can cast a creature and get the same effect multiple times?

This is why the deck doesn't need ramp spells, or much for removal, counterspells, and so on. You can win with creatures, you can win without using ramp spells, you can crush your opponents under an absolute pile of creatures in mere turns.

You can win with this deck, because Volo is the guide to winning, and I'm the guide to playing Volo correctly.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 40 - 1 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Copy Clone, Food, Foretell, Giant Wizard, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Plant 0/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Treasure, Vanguard Suppressor, Volo's Journal