Volrath Is Insane! | EDH Deck Tech 

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2 brutally evil cards you have to add to Volrath: Faerie Artisans and Willbreaker. Faerie aritisans is hilarious because it's honestly not that big of a threat, but I've seen it take a lot of heat from my friends. People usually don't like their stuff being copied, especially their ETBs. But it's pure value. Assuming it doesn't get countered or killed the turn you play it, you have the potential to get three different tokens entering the field. If an opponent kills the faerie, now you just have a permanent token. Also, even though FA's rule box uses its name, legally, it means itself and not all FAs. So if Volrath is a copy, now you have two tokens tracked separately. Willbreaker is a card I've been honestly debating on taking it out because it's so mean. Definitely need to add protection and/or sac outlet, and it costing 5 cmc does clash with Volrath, but assuming you cast her after Volrath, you'll have one guaranteed steal thanks to Volrath's neg 1 targeting trigger. Volrath is honestly the most fun I've had in commander. He has made losing fun and winning transcendent. It is utterly atrocious that you don't have Biovisionary in this deck tech! Man is honestly my secret commander, and he fits the theme of Volrath so well. I imagine that Volrath has a secret cloning program that ensures he never truly dies ala Palpatine.

Volrath has always been my favorite deck and I have always insisted that I wouldn't update it...until I watched your video. Thanks for the great suggestions! I love it even more now ha!

Volrath is one of my favorite commanders. His options are endless! One of the craziest interactions in recent times ive loved is the “backup” mechanic with spark double. Making volrath into some crazy creature and cloning it will keep the abomination around forever lol

One of my favorite commanders! When I built him I included a bunch of cards that he could abuse, cards that do thing in relation with how much power they have, cards that have evasion + attack triggers, cards that have evasion + combat damage triggers. Also, I focused a good bit on getting counters on creatures without killing them or buffing them. Cards like Tetzimoc, Bounty Hunter, Chevill, Termonation Facilitator are all good!

Why would a copy of Volrath turned into toothy draw seven? Toothy draws equal to the counters on it not equal to its power.

I was just looking at this commander and got confused by the ruling, great timing.

Thanks for the upload! I don't see Tetzimoc, Primal Death here, it is really a great card in a deck with 1/1 creatures which cannot receive the -1/-1 counter from Volrath to start copying. It also allows to copy enemy 1/1 without killing them.

Volrath, nice.. always was a very cool villain during Weatherlight stories. 🙏

Thanks this is a pet deck of mine and i had not considered cards like scute swarm. I like this addition if not everything. good video mate and thanks for giving a under rep commander some light

All creatures that clone themselves on the upkeep don't work with volrath as there is no point in wich you could make him a copy of said creature before the trigger would go on the stack

Volrath was the first deck I made. Can’t wait to see your take on it.

I have Volrath deck. Are watching this it's back to store I goes 😂😂

Great idea to pick up an older commander and just slam all of the newer support into the deck! When i look up older commanders i often miss out on these new takes on them. Good job! And i am really happy with my somewhat adjustet niv mizzet supreme deck with experience counters ;) Got the budget down to 150€. But the whole idea stayed and it works really well.

Could someone explain how volrath copies scute swarms? Im building a volrath deck and hadnt considered this card. What counters are on the scute swarm that allow Volrath to copy it, and how dont the copies they make die to the legend rule?

A Volrath deck full of infect and proliferate is insanely OP.

I love Heroes Bane in the Volrath deck, can quickly get out of hand :P

How would Volrath turned into Watchful Radstag trigger evolve? It would still be 7/5, and not many creatures would be bigger then that even in this deck.

I don't think Toxrill synergizes with -1/-1 Counters since he puts Slime counters on creatures, so we won't create Snakes for example. But he will trigger the "dying with 0 toughness".

How do you get rid of glen elandras -1 counter? i don't think adding a +1 removes the -1, they just cancel each other out in value, no?

Some additional strangeness ( i encourage you to go see michel celani's article on volrath as thats where i found this out): if you have a creature like beledros witherbloom that has an activated ability that is only usable once a turn, transforming volrath into the creature again counts as a different instance of the creature, allowing you to reuse those effects. Volrath is reeeaaal silly.

Good ol Scute swarm

Can someone explain to me the process in which what is giving the +1/+1 counters, specifically 1:30 with toothy as he draws based off of +1/+1 counters

I want to play fetches into 7/5 scute swarms

Id say Radstag isnt actually good for the deck if youre intending it as a volrath target

without meaning to be unsupportive but is that deck a monolith decK? Without the commander out it´s kind of dangerous?