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Solve the Equation – Finding Creature Type Diversity for Volo Decks - Volo's Guide to Monsters
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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
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 1Price: $79.99
The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. {T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life. Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Artifact
The Great Henge (eld) 161
1

Creatures

Quantity: 29Price: $92.23
Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (nec) 112
1
Amphin Mutineer

When Amphin Mutineer enters the battlefield, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token. Encore {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Amphin Mutineer (cmr) 55
1
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (khc) 54
1
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
1
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (moc) 351
1
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
1
Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Courser of Kruphix (j22) 641
1
Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Craterhoof Behemoth (jmp) 385
1
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (thb) 169
1
End-Raze Forerunners

Vigilance, trample, haste When End-Raze Forerunners enters the battlefield, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Creature
End-Raze Forerunners (clb) 822
1
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (j22) 676
1
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token enters the battlefield under your control, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (moc) 225
1
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
1
Loyal Drake

Flying Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Creature
Loyal Drake (c18) 10
1
Loyal Guardian

Trample Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Loyal Guardian (scd) 198
1
Man-o'-War

When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Man-o'-War (dmr) 58
1
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Managorger Hydra.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (moc) 307
1
Maraleaf Pixie

Flying {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Creature
Maraleaf Pixie (eld) 196
1
Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When Mind Flayer enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as you control Mind Flayer.

Creature
Mind Flayer (clb) 728
1
Mulldrifter

Flying When Mulldrifter enters the battlefield, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (2x2) 60
1
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 232
1
Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (afr) 200
1
Reef Worm

When Reef Worm dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this creature dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this creature dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Creature
Reef Worm (c21) 127
1
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (scd) 208
1
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of Scute Swarm instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (ncc) 310
1
Solemn Simulacrum

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

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
1
Spore Frog

Sacrifice Spore Frog: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Spore Frog (mh1) 180
1
Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters the battlefield, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact." {2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal. Choose a Background

Creature
Volo, Itinerant Scholar (clb) 103
1
Wandering Archaic

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

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Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (moc) 224
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Enchantment
Utopia Sprawl (afc) 172
1
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (dmr) 184
1

Instants

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
1
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
1
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dmc) 153
1
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (znc) 69
1
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (afc) 161
1
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (moc) 229
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
1
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (c21) 126
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (moc) 231
1
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1

Lands

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Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
1
Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
1
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
1
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
1
Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Land
Castle Garenbrig (eld) 240
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 262
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
10
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dmr) 248
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
9
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: 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 (moc) 416
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
1
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
1
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
1
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
1
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
1
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261
1

Sorceries

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Chart a Course

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

Sorcery
Chart a Course (jmp) 142
1
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 (moc) 295
1
Edge of Autumn

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Edge of Autumn (tsr) 201
1
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (dmc) 131
1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
1
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (moc) 306
1
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
1
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
1
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (ncc) 306
1
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
1

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