{"ops":[{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Volo was bored of writing a guide to all the monsters — he really just wanted to be a model himself. But he never felt his body was good enough, so he started cloning himself instead, to keep a journal about who he was. Along the way, he discovered he could also use his cloning power on other mages' creatures, and found himself fascinated by them."},{"insert":"\n\nThe Build\nThis deck starts out like a pretty standard "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Volo, Guide to Monsters"}},{"insert":" list. You want some 2-mana dorks like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Poison Dart Frog"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ilysian Caryatid"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maraleaf Pixie"}},{"insert":" and others each with a different creature type so they synergize well with Volo. They ramp you into him early and keep providing value later. I'm also running ramp pieces like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sakura-Tribe Elder"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Solemn Simulacrum"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Enduring Vitality"}},{"insert":", since they work especially well with Volo. Particularly "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Risen Reef"}},{"insert":", which scales quadratically with your number of copies.\n\nWhy This Is Secretly a Shapeshifter Tribal Deck\nVolo copies any creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature in your graveyard. So when you cast a clone like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Clone"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stunt Double"}},{"insert":" or others, Volo checks your battlefield for Shapeshifters to get a free copy. That copy and your clone then become whatever they clone, so they no longer a Shapeshifter either. That means you can cast another clone spell and to get copied again which gives you a lot of value.\nBut if one of your clones gets destroyed, it goes to your graveyard and as a Shapeshifter type card sits in the yard, future clones stop getting copied. That's why I run graveyard hate like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Armored Scrapgorger"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tormod's Crypt"}},{"insert":", to keep the yard clear and the engine running.\nThings get really out of hand once you add non-legendary copy effects for Volo himself, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spark Double"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Multiversal Recruitment"}},{"insert":", or something that turns off the legend rule, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Box"}},{"insert":". Combine those with the clone engine and you can generate a quadratically scaling army of Volos. It's just extremely fun!\n\nHow Do We Actually Win?\nThere's the obvious creature-based card draw that pairs well with Volo, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Garruk's Packleader"}},{"insert":", which digs you toward your finishers, which are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tajuru Warcaller"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Turntimber Ranger"}},{"insert":". You can also just steal the game by cloning your opponents' best creatures. To back that up, you'll want solid creature interaction like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Amphin Mutineer"}},{"insert":" to stop opponents from closing out the game with their own threats or you just clone their creature based interaction.\n\nPower Level\nIt's rated Bracket 2, but honestly that's probably too low, because it closes games fast even without any Game Changers in the list.\n\nHave a nice day!\n\n"}]}