Volrath's Stronghold

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Apoptosis on Smile all the way

2 months ago

In: Tragic Arrogance Out: Retribution of the Meek

In: Volrath's Stronghold, Temple of Malice Out: 1 swamp and 1 mountain

Last_Laugh on Arna's Kennundrüm: Counters Auraquipment?

8 months ago

Necramus I've been looking for a foil Academy Ruins locally (while secretly hoping for a reprint) with no luck so far. I want to complete the trifecta because I already own and run Volrath's Stronghold and the foil Hall of Heliod's Generosity you noticed.

BX223Hunter on Cruelclaw Reanimator High Power EDH

8 months ago

Where's your Volrath's Stronghold?

ToastedBagl on The Necrobloom

10 months ago

Titania's Command and Lazotep Quarry are fun options.

Volrath's Stronghold is a good card, but expensive.

Bounce lands with Exploration effects mean you can generate lots of tokens per turn.

You have a lot of options in this deck, many of them extremely powerful. I suggest cutting the clue token stuff.

Grave Titan gives you additional zombies if you wanna go that route.

Edit: I just noticed many of my suggestions are already listed. Sorry about that!

Whip of Erebos is just an amazing card with tokens and self-mill.

Xtough on Evil dead ☠️ (Ode to Sheoldred)

11 months ago

Thank you. I would try to focus on draw/drain and protecting and accelerating the combos. Potential cuts: Angel of suffering, grave pact, dictate as they protect only if you do something. The same for grim haruspex and morbid Opportunist. Praetors grasp has no synergy. Leaden myr is too slow without haste. Oversold Cemetery is conditionally slow. Doomed Necromancer and Phyrexian Reclamation could be ok as you tutor things into the graveyard, although I would go for Witch's Cottage and Volrath's Stronghold.

Potential inclusions could be Imp's Mischief for protection, cheap targeted removal and mana rocks like Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Mana Crypt.

I look forward to seeing two new decklists ;) I think for now I am out of ideas but would be interesting to see how this turns out. The deck would be way out if my budget and for my playgroup Sheoldred is not a suitable commander but I really like her in the 99 for my Braids Arisen Nightmare deck. Hope this works and I really like the deck!

Xtough on Evil dead ☠️ (Ode to Sheoldred)

11 months ago

With Dauthi voidwalker and oppression there is also a small discard subtheme. This could work with the apocalypse although I do not like discarding my own cards if I am not in reanimate theme. I would cut scourge of nel toth because it is 6/6 flying for a high cost whichever way. And I would incl Cabal Coffers and stronghold as additional lands. Regarding good lands may I point out Volrath's Stronghold and Lake of the Dead.

fluffyeel on You draw you lose

11 months ago

Some small recommendations I can think of:

• You have a lot of drawing for all parties, but your opponents will also be discarding (quite likely, especially given the Memory Jar). I therefore recommend Megrim, which actually is the reason Memory Jar became the first emergency ban in MTG history. You could also run things like Animate Dead, Reanimate, and Necromancy to take advantage of loading up your opponents' graveyards. Of course, Rise of the Dark Realms is a nice showstopper, though it's quite pricey...
• Archfiend of Despair is a delightful combination of Wound Reflection (already recommended) as well as stopping lifegain. I love using it wherever I can. (It's also a demon, so it synergizes with one of your alternate win cons.)
• You could also consider going more of a snow-covered route, so replacing your basic swamps with the snow-covered kind and going with Extraplanar Lens to amplify your black mana. Crypt Ghast also is another mana accelerator.
• The Meathook Massacre and Massacre Wurm are also "board wipe with benefits" that I highly recommend. I also almost always play Kokusho, the Evening Star in every black deck I run. Archfiend of Despair could also be another fun option for removing things and punishing your opponents.
• Some of your artifacts and tutors could be better. Rather than Wayfarer's Bauble, I could suggest Expedition Map instead. Grim Tutor, Planar Bridge, and Beseech the Queen could also make for fun tutoring.
• I'm not sure if Gemstone Caverns and Mox Diamond are worth it here: sure, they're fast and get you more mana quickly (always a good thing), but the multicolored mana isn't so necessary. There are options I might prefer like Mox Amber, Mana Vault, Volrath's Stronghold...
• For a mono-black deck, Contamination might be a great way to lose all friends. I highly recommend it.

Profet93 on Tsabo Tavoc Havoc

1 year ago

SufferFromEDHD +1

Do you feel you have enough ramp? Your commander costs 7, 2 colored mana + tap for activated ability. No haste to even use it. I actually love your commander, I just wonder how often you get to use him.

Jeska's Will - Draw/Ramp

Spreading Plague - Could be super fun....could backfire.

Command Beacon/Volrath's Stronghold - Recur expensive commander

Crystal Chimes - Recur 25% of your deck

Why run gamble over an omni tutor, low cost?

Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip - Could be too slow, but ensuring basics could be nice. The land transformation works with your defense theme.

No Mercy > Sunstone? - Or do you need the lack of damage?

How has heartless summoning been working for you? You only run 2 creatures, why not just run a Jet Medallion instead? Easier to cast, affects all black spells rather than just 2 cards. Is an artifact so it might be more susceptible to removal but the benefits far outweigh the costs IMO.