Hey fellas of mtgsalvation! Cutting to the chase, I'd like some feedback on a Varolz, the Scar-Striped EDH deck. I dig the card and I think he would be a dope commander. Couple of issues with that though.
1: He's far more viable in a 1v1 situation and I feel is hard to play in multiplayer
2: Getting the cost down while running an Ad Nauseam combo is difficult
Right now the deck's average CMC is 1.89 (which I feel is pretty good) but it's cost is up at 700 bucks. I'd love for ya'll to take a look at what I have here so far and tell me where you think I can make cuts while keeping the deck's speed and low(ish) average CMC.
Also any additional multiplayer wincons you can think of would be great!
Infect or bust, man. That's where he shines tbh........
Ran that, it's a trap honestly. Voltron is better, less wasted slots to sub-par creatures. Varolz really is a 1v1 deck, for any real competition. Toss in an evaside infector, sure. Aim for the commander damage most often.
I ran a discard subtheme, keep cards stripped out of hands as much as possible ala Oppression. Any fatty worth playing for fat's sake had to be 2 power/cmc, minimum. Speed and control was the name of the game, try to race to a commander kill, asap.
Ideally this should be in the deck list sub. Voltron strategies will always be more powerful in 1v1 but there are things that can be done to help. Whispersilk Cloak i think is very underrated for voltron decks although it (and lightning greaves) don't work with scavenge. Im also not sure how viable Ad Nauseum is in EDH particularly as it means cutting yourself on anything powerful but expensive in favor of cheap and weak. If you want to cut the costs I would remove most of the fetch lands. After you get your shock the only fetchable lands you have are basics and there is no noticeable thinning effect from fetching repeatedly.
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EDH BRGKresh the BloodbraidedBRG, A box of lands and ideas.
Modern: RG Titanshift. A deck made of cards too stupid for EDH.
Retired: Lots. More than I feel you should suffer through or I should type out.
Do you try to get to Jarad and Lord of Extinction, discard the rest to hand size, then kill everyone on the upkeep?
Strangleroot Geist seems bad. Noticeable omission is Survival of the Fittest. Also, Ranger's Guile is a very weird inclusion. Even if you feel you need this one-time use one-of, there is a strictly better version of this card in Kaladesh block.
Survival of the Fittest is out strictly because I cannot afford it otherwise it would be here As for Ad Nauseum you pretty much got it. Just trying to find some big guys to ditch in the graveyard and hold onto key wincons I pick up.
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1: He's far more viable in a 1v1 situation and I feel is hard to play in multiplayer
2: Getting the cost down while running an Ad Nauseam combo is difficult
Right now the deck's average CMC is 1.89 (which I feel is pretty good) but it's cost is up at 700 bucks. I'd love for ya'll to take a look at what I have here so far and tell me where you think I can make cuts while keeping the deck's speed and low(ish) average CMC.
Also any additional multiplayer wincons you can think of would be great!
Here's the list!
1x Varolz, the Scar-Striped
1x Birds of Paradise
1x Blight Mamba
1x Blood Scrivener
1x Bloodghast
1x Brawn
1x Corpsejack Menace
1x Deathrite Shaman
1x Death's Shadow
1x Elves of Deep Shadow
1x Eternal Witness
1x Fauna Shaman
1x Force of Savagery
1x Fyndhorn Elves
1x Glistener Elf
1x Hunted Horror
1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1x Llanowar Elves
1x Lord of Extinction
1x Lotleth Troll
1x Lotus Cobra
1x Nether Traitor
1x Oona's Prowler
1x Phyrexian Dreadnought
1x Phyrexian Soulgorger
1x Plague Stinger
1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
1x Riftsweeper
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
1x Strangleroot Geist
1x Sylvan Safekeeper
1x Viridian Corrupter
1x Viridian Zealot
1x Winding Constrictor
1x City of Brass
1x Command Tower
1x Dryad Arbor
6x Forest
1x High Market
1x Inkmoth Nexus
1x Llanowar Wastes
1x Marsh Flats
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Phyrexian Tower
1x Polluted Delta
1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1x Strip Mine
5x Swamp
1x Tainted Wood
1x Twilight Mire
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswept Heath
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Woodland Cemetery
1x Yavimaya Hollow
1x Blade of Selves
1x Chrome Mox
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Mana Crypt
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Swiftfoot Boots
1x Ad Nauseam
1x Berserk
1x Crop Rotation
1x Dark Ritual
1x Entomb
1x Grisly Salvage
1x Ranger's Guile
1x Slaughter Pact
1x Tainted Strike
1x Worldly Tutor
1x Animate Dead
1x Hardened Scales
1x Necropotence
1x Phyresis
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Rancor
1x Sylvan Library
1x Tortured Existence
1x Buried Alive
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Green Sun's Zenith
1x Treasured Find
Real quick should mentioned that Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Blade of Selves are my multiplayer wincons.
Thank you for any and all comments!
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Ran that, it's a trap honestly. Voltron is better, less wasted slots to sub-par creatures. Varolz really is a 1v1 deck, for any real competition. Toss in an evaside infector, sure. Aim for the commander damage most often.
I ran a discard subtheme, keep cards stripped out of hands as much as possible ala Oppression. Any fatty worth playing for fat's sake had to be 2 power/cmc, minimum. Speed and control was the name of the game, try to race to a commander kill, asap.
BRGKresh the BloodbraidedBRG, A box of lands and ideas.
Modern:
RG Titanshift. A deck made of cards too stupid for EDH.
Retired: Lots. More than I feel you should suffer through or I should type out.
Do you try to get to Jarad and Lord of Extinction, discard the rest to hand size, then kill everyone on the upkeep?
Strangleroot Geist seems bad. Noticeable omission is Survival of the Fittest. Also, Ranger's Guile is a very weird inclusion. Even if you feel you need this one-time use one-of, there is a strictly better version of this card in Kaladesh block.
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