How many lands, ramp and draw do Volo, Guide to Monsters decks run?
Volo, Guide to Monsters decks run a median of 32.5 lands and 14.5 ramp cards, across 10 public decks on Moxfield.
Moxfield lists 5 of these 10 Volo, Guide to Monsters decks as bracket 4. We need at least 8 decks to give a bracket its own column, so they count only in the numbers for all of these decks.
Counted on , from decks collected in July and November 2026.
We counted these 10 decks with the same code EDHTuner runs on your deck. That is a small count, so a median here can sit a card or two away from what a bigger count would show.
Compared with all decks, Volo, Guide to Monsters decks run more targeted disruption (13.5 against 9) and less mass disruption (0.5 against 2).
The first number in each row is the median for these decks, and the range after it covers the middle half of them. The last column is the median across all 18,414 decks we counted.
| This commander | All decks | |
|---|---|---|
| Lands | 32.5 (30-36) | 34 |
| Ramp | 14.5 (13-16) | 11 |
| Card advantage | 8.5 (7-10) | 9 |
| Targeted disruption | 13.5 (9-15) | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 0.5 (0-1) | 2 |
| Protection | 2 (1-3) | 2 |
| Decks counted | 10 | 18,414 |
Moxfield lists these decks as bracket 1 (1 deck), bracket 2 (2), bracket 3 (1), bracket 4 (5) and bracket 5 (1).
What bracket is a Volo, Guide to Monsters deck?
Of the 10 Volo, Guide to Monsters decks we counted, 5 (50%) need at least bracket 3, and 5 (50%) need at least bracket 4.
Each deck's lowest bracket here comes from Wizards' bracket rules, as EDHTuner's engine reads them from the deck's cards. The engine checks Game Changers, two-card infinite combos from Commander Spellbook, mass land denial and extra-turn cards.
| Lowest bracket | Decks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bracket 1 | 5 | 50% |
| Bracket 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Bracket 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Bracket 4 | 5 | 50% |
One deck can meet several of these rules, and its lowest bracket is the highest one any of them asks for.
| What the deck runs | Needs at least | Decks |
|---|---|---|
| More than three Game Changers | Bracket 4 | 5 |
| Mass land denial | Bracket 4 | 0 |
| One to three Game Changers | Bracket 3 | 0 |
| A two-card infinite combo | Bracket 3 | 3 |
| An extra-turn card | Bracket 2 | 0 |
The rules also weigh how early a combo can win and whether extra turns get chained. The cards alone do not show that, so a deck can belong in a higher bracket than the one shown here. On Moxfield, none of these decks has a bracket below the lowest one the rules allow.
Cards Volo, Guide to Monsters decks run most
These are the nonland cards these 10 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column is the share of the other decks we counted that run the same card, out of those whose colors allow it.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Sol Ring | 7 of 10 | 86% |
| Ornithopter of Paradise | 6 of 10 | 4% |
| Twinning Staff | 6 of 10 | under 1% |
| Arcane Signet | 5 of 10 | 67% |
| Birds of Paradise | 5 of 10 | 44% |
| End-Raze Forerunners | 5 of 10 | 2% |
| Ilysian Caryatid | 5 of 10 | 2% |
| Kiora's Follower | 5 of 10 | 5% |
| Loyal Guardian | 5 of 10 | 1% |
| Maraleaf Pixie | 5 of 10 | under 1% |
| Wild Growth | 5 of 10 | 19% |
| Worldly Tutor | 5 of 10 | 25% |
| Cyclonic Rift | 4 of 10 | 34% |
| Fierce Guardianship | 4 of 10 | 36% |
| Heroic Intervention | 4 of 10 | 29% |
| Keruga, the Macrosage | 4 of 10 | under 1% |
| Mana Drain | 4 of 10 | 22% |
| Managorger Hydra | 4 of 10 | 3% |
| Nature's Lore | 4 of 10 | 31% |
| Ohran Frostfang | 4 of 10 | 8% |
Cards that set these decks apart
These cards are not in the table above. Each one is in at least three in ten of these decks, and the other decks whose colors allow it run it far less often.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Peregrine Drake | 4 of 10 | 3% |
| Silverback Elder | 4 of 10 | 2% |
| Spark Double | 4 of 10 | 7% |
| Temur Sabertooth | 4 of 10 | 4% |
| Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath | 4 of 10 | 5% |
| Loyal Drake | 3 of 10 | under 1% |
| Man-o'-War | 3 of 10 | under 1% |
| Overgrown Battlement | 3 of 10 | under 1% |
| Radagast the Brown | 3 of 10 | under 1% |
| Vanguard Suppressor | 3 of 10 | under 1% |
Themes EDHTuner finds in these decks
EDHTuner reads each deck's themes from the rules text on its cards, the same way it reads yours. This is how many of the 10 decks it finds each theme in, for the themes it finds in at least a quarter of them. One deck can have several.
| Theme | Decks |
|---|---|
| Spell copying | 8 of 10 |
| Clone | 6 of 10 |
| Combat damage | 3 of 10 |
Similar commanders
Decks for these commanders have the same colors as these decks, or EDHTuner finds some of the same themes in them. The words after each name say what they share.
- Naru Meha, Master Wizard Spell copying, Clone
- Krark, the Thumbless and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Spell copying, Clone
- Magus Lucea Kane Spell copying, Combat damage
- Omo, Queen of Vesuva same colors, Clone, Combat damage
- Etali, Primal Conqueror Spell copying, Combat damage
- Balmor, Battlemage Captain Spell copying, Combat damage
The Commander deck numbers page shows the same rows for each bracket and says what each row counts.
The bracket 4 page shows what all the decks we counted at that bracket run.
The lands page shows how many lands Commander decks run at each bracket, and the bracket checker names the lowest bracket your own deck fits.
Paste your deck into EDHTuner to see its own counts and the numbers it aims for, along with cards to add and cut. The guide to cutting cards shows how it picks them.