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Volo, Guide to Mediocrity
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Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

Commander

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Evasion

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Stampeding Elk Herd

Formidable — Whenever this creature attacks, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Stampeding Elk Herd (dtk) 208

Evasion

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Ramp

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Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all flood counters from this enchantment. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on this enchantment and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Enchantment
Bounty of the Luxa (2x2) 187
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
Dance of the Tumbleweeds

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. + {3} — Create an X/X green Elemental creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Sorcery
Dance of the Tumbleweeds (otj) 160
Expand the Sphere

Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you put fewer than two lands onto the battlefield this way, proliferate a number of times equal to the difference. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Expand the Sphere (one) 168
Fertilid

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Creature
Fertilid (moc) 296
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
Heaped Harvest

When this artifact enters and when you sacrifice it, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.

Artifact
Heaped Harvest (blb) 175
In Search of Greatness

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cast a permanent spell from your hand with mana value equal to 1 plus the highest mana value among other permanents you control without paying its mana cost. If you don't, scry 1.

Enchantment
In Search of Greatness (khm) 177
Market Festival

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional two mana in any combination of colors.

Enchantment
Market Festival (jou) 130
Nightshade Dryad

Deathtouch {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Nightshade Dryad (mh3) 163
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Scale the Heights

Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Scale the Heights (j22) 724
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (fdn) 257
Weaver of Currents

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Creature
Weaver of Currents (akh) 209

Ramp

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Copy

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Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (rvr) 62
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6

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Land

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Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
Fertile Thicket

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, reveal up to one basic land card from among them, then put that card on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in any order. {T}: Add {G}.

Land
Fertile Thicket (ddr) 27
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 274
Lumbering Falls

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {2}{G}{U}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Lumbering Falls (afc) 247
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Land
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood (blc) 320
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (fdn) 695
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (fdn) 702
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (fdn) 269

Land

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Recursion

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Unnatural Restoration

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Unnatural Restoration (one) 191

Recursion

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Counters

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Dormant Grove

Enchantment
Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider (vow) 198Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider (vow) 198
Forced Adaptation

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Forced Adaptation (rvr) 140
Gnarlid Colony

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Gnarlid Colony (fdn) 224
Invigorating Surge

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

Instant
Invigorating Surge (j25) 673
Ivy Lane Denizen

Whenever another green creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ivy Lane Denizen (j25) 674
Nyxborn Hydra

Bestow {X}{G}{G} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Reach, trample This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.

Creature Enchantment
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
Renata, Called to the Hunt

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Enchantment
Renata, Called to the Hunt (thb) 196
Slurrk, All-Ingesting

Slurrk enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Slurrk or another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that has a +1/+1 counter on it. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Slurrk, All-Ingesting (moc) 312

Counters

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Proliferate

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Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (one) 288

Proliferate

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Removal

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Atraxa's Fall

Destroy target artifact, battle, enchantment, or creature with flying.

Sorcery
Atraxa's Fall (mom) 176
Cancel

Counter target spell.

Instant
Cancel (fdn) 505
Carnivorous Canopy

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. If that permanent's mana value was 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Carnivorous Canopy (one) 162
Hunter's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. {1}{G}: Level 2 Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. {3}{G}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Hunter's Talent (blb) 179
Keiga, the Tide Star

Flying When Keiga dies, gain control of target creature.

Creature
Keiga, the Tide Star (clb) 725
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (fdn) 710
Selesnya Eulogist

{2}{G}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Creature
Selesnya Eulogist (c19) 35
Unable to Scream

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a Toy artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/2 in addition to its other types. As long as enchanted creature is face down, it can't be turned face up.

Enchantment
Unable to Scream (dsk) 78
Voidslime

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Voidslime (rvr) 237

Removal

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Koma, World-Eater

This spell can't be countered. Trample, ward {4} Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.

Creature
Koma, World-Eater (fdn) 121
Sire of Seven Deaths

First strike, vigilance Menace, trample Reach, lifelink Ward—Pay 7 life.

Creature
Sire of Seven Deaths (fdn) 1

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Protection

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Haze of Pollen

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Haze of Pollen (akh) 171
Lull

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Lull (dmr) 169
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (clu) 99
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (fdn) 233
Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (one) 190

Protection

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Sorcery

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Valgavoth's Onslaught

Manifest dread X times, then put X +1/+1 counters on each of those creatures. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library, then put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Valgavoth's Onslaught (dsk) 204

Sorcery

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Draw

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Basic Conjuration

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Basic Conjuration (stx) 120
Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Chart a Course (fdn) 586
Clear the Mind

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Clear the Mind (plst) RNA-34
Garruk's Packleader

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Garruk's Packleader (j25) 660
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (fdn) 220
Keeper of Fables

Whenever one or more non-Human creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Keeper of Fables (plst) ELD-163
Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Lifecrafter's Bestiary (mkc) 231
Make Your Own Luck

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. If you do, it becomes plotted. Put the rest into your hand. (You may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Make Your Own Luck (otj) 218
Primordial Sage

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may draw a card.

Creature
Primordial Sage (jmp) 422
Secrets of the Golden City

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Draw two cards. If you have the city's blessing, draw three cards instead.

Sorcery
Secrets of the Golden City (plst) RIX-52
Seize the Secrets

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Seize the Secrets (otj) 64
Snake Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Snake Umbra (woc) 133
Vivisurgeon's Insight

Draw three cards. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Vivisurgeon's Insight (one) 77

Draw

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Pump

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Exponential Growth

Until end of turn, double target creature's power X times.

Sorcery
Exponential Growth (stx) 130
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. {G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Creature
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus (one) 195

Pump

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Tokens

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Arasta of the Endless Web

Reach Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach.

Creature Enchantment
Arasta of the Endless Web (blc) 205
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (dsc) 184

Tokens

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Generic Volo deck. A few synergies like copying volo with spark double or duplicating Peregrine Drake, but otherwise unremarkable. Makes lots of big creatures with lots of counters trying to get out of hand if not stopped but it's pretty simple overall.\n"}]}
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