Volo, Guide to Monsters

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

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.)

Tokens

• Copy Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (23)

StonyYodelers on Shrines

6 months ago

I was searching for other Shrine decks to potentially update mine, and noticed your in-progress list. I don't know if the changelings are in here to take advantage of shrine triggers but in case they are, I wanted to let you know that "Shrine" isn't a creature subtype, it's an enchantment subtype. Shrines don't have a creature subtype at all, so changelings can't count as them. I didn't find out until way late into designing mine so hopefully I can save you some time by telling you now.

If you want to do something a little silly based around the fact that they don't have a creature type, something I toyed around with when I was first making my deck was Volo, Guide to Monsters. It only works with the shrines that are creatures, but because they don't have a creature type they'll never match another and so you always get a copy. When copy enters, sac original due to legend rule and then you can bring it back later from graveyard thanks to your cmdr. With something like Mirror Gallery you won't even have to sac them. I couldn't ever make it work well enough for my liking but maybe you would!

Polaris on Volo, guide to monsters and …

1 year ago

This doesn't work the way you hope, for two reasons.

To start with, yes, you can absolutely do this. You cast Mirror Image, which has the type Shapeshifter. This triggers Volo, Guide to Monsters if you don't have any Shapeshifters in play or in your graveyard, copying the spell. If no one responds, you'll respond the copied Mirror Image, which will create a token Mirror Image that can enter as a copy of any creature you control, then the original spell will resolve and Mirror Image will enter (again, can enter as a copy).

On the battlefield, the Mirror Images will be whatever they copied, and will therefore enter as something other than Shapeshifters unless you decided for some reason not to copy anything. This doesn't matter to Volo, because he triggers when the spell is cast, not when the spell resolves and the creature enters the battlefield.

With all that said, here are the two issues:

First, Volo triggers only on cast. Having a second Volo when your Mirror Image original (not the copy) enters won't do anything because it's not being cast, it's entering the battlefield. This would only work if you already had two Volos when you cast Mirror Image.

Second, however, Volo is a legendary creature. If at any point you control two legendary creatures with the same name, you must sacrifice all but one of them as a state-based action. At the moment Mirror Image enters as Volo, you will have two copies of Volo (and this could potentially trigger enters-the-battlefield abilities of something), but immediately after that, before anyone can respond or anything can resolve, you will have to pick one Volo and sacrifice the rest of them.

The only way around this kind of thing is a clone like Spark Double, which can copy legendary creatures without issue because it removes the legendary typing when it copies something, or another way around the legend rule like Mirror Gallery or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces.

Moondrop on Volo, guide to monsters and …

1 year ago

I have built a Volo deck built around double good cards as well as ones that may not be as good on their own but become discounted versions of themselves because of volo. I was playtesting it when I saw a interaction I didn't before. If you have Volo, Guide to Monsters on the battlefield and then cast Mirror Image could I have it enter as a copy of volo and still have volo copy it( practically double it) with his ability since it does not become a copy of volo until it enters and therefore meets the subtype condition for coping?

Last_Laugh on New Hub Suggestion

2 years ago

Hey legendofa, random question. I see "Twin" is a hub name and wanted to check rather than misuse it. Is that referring to Splinter Twin? Or would something like The Sixth Doctor / Volo, Guide to Monsters / Riku of Two Reflections etc. be appropriate use of Twin?

IHATENAMES on Political Powerhouse

2 years ago

So it looks like you are asking both for the new card and the replacement. I will try but final choices us of course yours. I will also say I have never run this commander so I may be wrong.

I think you need more lands. 33 with some not tapping for mana sometime. Or at all. This is cheating a touch too much. Goal is 5 lands more here is what I suggest.

Volo, Guide to Monsters unless he is your commander he feels like a win more card. And yes I know morphs are morphs as their creature type.

Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar interesting but might be not worth the effort.

Your high cmc stuff. Its... not nothing but isn't really good. Specifically Thieving Amalgam Ghastly Conscription personally I'd cut both but you have 2 of the normal big mana wincons Exsanguinate and torment. Between the 4. I'd suggest running only 2 think of all the card draw you have with your commander/other creatures. Do you reallyneed this many big mana i win buttons?

I'd also cut 1 of the morph into counterspell effects. I know it seems cool to have it as an option. But 4 mana counterspell that leaves a 1/1 or 2/2 is just bad. I'd suggest Kadena's Silencer

As for what lands. Look up the pain land cycle like Yavimaya Coast those combo* with your Forsaken Monument maybe redo you lands period. Idk how you gonna cast all these colored spells with greedy manabase you got.

I hope this helps. Don't mean to hate too much on your mana but my biggest concern in a game is having fun. You dont have fun when you can't cast your spells.

SchochenJaller on Mutation

4 years ago

Volo, Guide to Monsters

Delphen7 on What is the order of …

4 years ago

For future reference, you can link cards by wrapping them in double brackets (These guys [ ] ). Ivy Lane Denizen, Volo, Guide to Monsters, Herd Baloth.

Volo says cast, so he'll trigger when you move Herd Baloth from your hand onto the stack, creating the token copy on the stack (assuming it doesn't share any creature types). This token copy will enter the battlefield from there, which will trigger Ivy Lane Denizen. Once you've placed your counter, the original Herd Baloth will enter the battlefield; triggering Ivy Lane Denizen.

thefiresoflurve on The Bones To Build Your Tribal Deck

4 years ago

Am I missing something, or is Volo, Guide to Monsters kind of like... the opposite of tribal?