Varolz, the Scar-Striped
Commander: Varolz, the Scar-Striped · Colors: BG · Bracket: B3-Low · Power: 3.0 · 100 cards
This Golgari deck leverages Varolz, the Scar-Striped to utilize the scavenge mechanic, turning high-power, low-cost creatures in the graveyard into massive buffs for its board. It focuses on dumping efficient threats like Death's Shadow and Phyrexian Dreadnought into the graveyard to enable explosive combat turns or to fuel Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord for direct damage. The deck relies on powerful draw engines and graveyard recursion to maintain pressure while consistently threatening lethal damage through either commander damage or drain effects.
Commander
Deck List
Tutors
- Buried Alive
- Jarad's Orders
Ramp
- Decanter of Endless Water
- Sol Ring
- Thought Vessel
- Traverse the Outlands
- Thrór's Map
Card Draw
- Greater Good
- Hunter's Insight
- Life's Legacy
- Mask of Memory
- Momentous Fall
- My Precious // Allure of Power
- Return of the Wildspeaker
- Rishkar's Expertise
Value Engines
- Insidious Roots
- The Skullspore Nexus
Protection
Other
- Branching Evolution
- Command Tower
- Daemogoth Titan
- Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
- Death's Shadow
- Disciple of Bolas
- Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
- Doom Weaver
- Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death
- Feral Ghoul
- Forest
- Greenseeker
- Groundbreaker
- Iron-Shield Elf
- Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
- Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
- Lotleth Troll
- Marwyn, the Nurturer
- Mindless Automaton
- Monoist Sentry
- Nyxathid
- Phyrexian Dreadnought
- Phyrexian Soulgorger
- Plague Reaver
- Reliquary Tower
- Rotting Regisaur
- Ruthless Technomancer
- Shakedown Heavy
- Simulacrum Shaper
- Skirge Familiar
- Slumbering Trudge
- Terrian, World Tyrant
- The Ozolith
- Viridian Joiner
- Woodland Cemetery
- Yargle and Multani
- Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
- Swamp
- Force of Savagery
- Delighted Halfling
- Birds of Paradise
- Elves of Deep Shadow
- Boreal Druid
- Fyndhorn Elves
- Elvish Mystic
- Llanowar Elves
- Arboreal Grazer
- Old Rutstein
- Wild Growth
- Hunted Horror
- Utopia Sprawl
- Raffine's Silencer
- Tamiyo's Safekeeping