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Volo, Itinerant Scholar

Volo, Itinerant Scholar

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{U} · Blue commander

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

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What a Volo, Itinerant Scholar deck wants

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Best cards for Volo, Itinerant Scholar

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Freed from the Real3 mana
  4. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  5. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  8. Genji Glove5 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Escape Protocol2 mana
  7. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
  8. Essence Flux1 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Ornithopter0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Memnite0 mana
  5. Phyrexian Walker0 mana
  6. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  7. Mockingbird1 mana
  8. Ornithopter of Paradise2 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Lotus Field0 mana
  5. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  6. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Adventurer's Inn0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  3. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  4. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  5. Shore Up1 mana
  6. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  7. Cyberman Patrol2 mana
  8. It That Heralds the End2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 mana

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