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Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature — Troll Warrior · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.) Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz.
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What Varolz, the Scar-Striped actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Varolz, the Scar-Striped deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Varolz, the Scar-Striped deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. Old-Growth Troll3 mana
  5. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  6. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
  7. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  4. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  5. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  6. Six3 mana
  7. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Vicious Rivalry4 mana
  8. Endemic Plague4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Golgari Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Combos with Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Varolz, the Scar-Striped is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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