Other Volo, Guide to Monsters
Volo, Itinerant Scholar & Master Chef Commander Deck
The deck builds an engine around Volo, Itinerant Scholar by casting creatures of diverse types to accumulate notes on Volo's Journal, then repeatedly tapping the Journal to draw large numbers of cards. Master Chef ensures every creature enters with extra +1/+1 counters, which powers up mana creatures like Incubation Druid to generate enormous amounts of mana while also enabling Walking Ballista as a direct damage win condition. The deck assembles infinite mana through combinations of untap effects such as Freed from the Real and Dramatic Reversal paired with mana-producing creatures, then either shoots opponents down with Walking Ballista or draws into Laboratory Maniac as an alternate win condition when the library runs out.
Decklist
- Stonecoil Serpent
- Laboratory Maniac
- Cultivate
- Spectral Sailor
- Yavimaya Coast
- Rapid Hybridization
- Brainstorm
- Counterspell
- Wirewood Symbiote
- Negate
- Walking Ballista
- Endless One
- Elvish Mystic
- Ornithopter
- Memnite
- Boreal Druid
- Cloud of Faeries
- Phyrexian Walker
- Shrieking Drake
- Ugin's Conjurant
- Waterlogged Grove
- Cryptic Trilobite
- Nature's Claim
- Dispel
- Isochron Scepter
- Llanowar Elves
- Vitalize
- Instill Energy
- Flooded Grove
- Arcane Denial
- Muddle the Mixture
- Teardrop Kami
- Kiora's Follower
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Sidisi's Faithful
- Dramatic Reversal
- Freed from the Real
- Reliquary Tower
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- Reality Shift
- Sol Ring
- Arbor Elf
- Krosan Wayfarer
- Siren Stormtamer
- Fyndhorn Elves
- Reclamation Sage
- Murkfiend Liege
- Nezahal, Primal Tide
- Solve the Equation
- Arcane Signet
- Ponder
- Quirion Ranger
- Hullbreaker Horror
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Incubation Druid
- Scavenging Ooze
- Command Tower
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Thought Vessel
- Beast Within
- Pull from Tomorrow
- Rampant Growth
- Coiling Oracle
- Beast Whisperer
- Sakura-Tribe Scout
- Pongify
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Eternal Witness
- 15× Forest
- 15× Island