3 Evolution Vat
4 Anavolver
4 Cetavolver
4 Degavolver
4 Necravolver
4 Rakavolver
2 Shared Triumph
1 Coalition Victory
2 Gaea's Balance
4 Kodama's Reach
4 Last Stand
8 Forest
3 Island
3 Mountain
3 Plains
3 Swamp
4 Undiscovered Paradise |
 Victorious
Volvers.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
The Volvers are a rare cycle of five cards
from Apocalypse. There is one in each color, and they all have off-color
kicker costs. Therefore, this deck is going to need to be all five
colors and be seriously dedicated to that principle. I've played the
Rakavolver in Abe's Deck of Happiness and Joy since it was released.
It's a great creature. I think tossed in a Necravolver because I had a
foil one, not because it was any good. The Green one - the Anavolver -
is the second best one after the Rakavolver, I think. The two Volvers
with the Red kicker (the White Degavolver and the Blue Cetavolver) are
the worst.
The deck uses two spells to round out its mana. The
first is a spell from Apocalypse itself, Gaea's Balance. This allows you
to sac five lands and put into play one of each basic land type. Once you
play one of these, your mana is set. The other option is Kodama's Reach.
The Reach is a great card because it gives you two colors, getting you
much closer to what you need. Odds are you have at least one other basic
land besides a Forest in your opening hand, so you can get up to four
colors or so after playing a Reach.
Since these spells are essential for your deck, as is
Green, I upped the amount of Forests. I also tossed in four Undiscovered
Paradises, so you have a few lands that will tap for anything. I initially
had four City of Brass, but pulled them because of the pain of subsequent
uses could add up very quickly. This is a deck that will use a five-color
land practically every turn, I suspect. The slower mana development of a
Paradise is fine, because you probably won't be using it until you begin
to kick or double kick your Volvers (at around five mana or so).
I decided to push the five-color theme and toss in some
Last Stands, just for fun. They also work because they too are in
Apocalypse. Last Stands aren't bad, actually. Because you have a lot of
Forests in your deck, expect to get some serious Saproling tokens from
your Last Stands. As a bit of fun, I tossed in a single copy of Coalition
Victory. It's been a while since I used one of them in a deck. It could go
off to win you the game, and catching people by surprise like that is a
lot of fun. There's just one, reducing your chance of drawing it early or
after a Wrath of God. Also, when people do the multiplayer whine, “you
always seem to cast that Coalition Victory,” you can remark that there is
just one copy in the deck.
One card that really works well is the Evolution Vat.
All Volvers, if you double kick them, come into play with three +1/+1
counters. The Vat will toss on a fourth, and then allow you to spend mana
to double it. It's worth tapping your Rakavolver to turn it from a 5/5
flying, spirit linked creature into a 10/10 flying, spirit linked creature
in one turn. Spend another turn and it jumps to a 20/20, making it a
player killer. Similarly, the first striking, trampling Cetavolver that's
4/4 normally after a double kick becomes a 9/9. I also like the synergy
between the names. Volvers are named because they evolved, and this is an
Evolution Vat. And the Evolution Vat takes these Volvers and makes them
even better very quickly.
Just for a bit of fun, I decided to throw in a pair of
Shared Triumphs. I thought it would be nifty if you played a spell and
then called out Volvers. Without the Shared Triumph, there's no “choose a
creature type” card in the deck. One of the things I liked about the
Carriage deck yesterday was that you had eight cards in the deck that you
selected Carriage as the creature type every time, thus proving it was a
Carriage deck. I wanted the same feel here today with the Volver deck. In
other words, I didn't want this to feel like a five-color deck that uses
Volvers. Instead I wanted it to feel like a Volver deck that uses some
five-color cards. The Shared Triumphs really helps me visualize the deck
this way.
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