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Vnwxt, Verboe Host, on top of being hard to pronounce, is a great commander released inMagic: The Gathering’sAetherdrift set. This mono blue commander offers a playstyle all about drawing cards and reaching max speed.
The restriction of being mono blue doesn’t hurt the deck too much, as blue is the color of drawing cards and unblockable creatures. Vnwxt, Verbose Host offers a different take on mono blue with abilities to make it a perfect draw commander. If you love drawing cards and constantly having a hand filled with them, Vnwxt, Verboe Host is the commander you have been looking for.
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The decklistcontains one planeswalker, 29 creatures, five sorceries, 12 instants, 12 artifacts, six enchantments,and34 lands. Many of the creature suite have effects when you draw a card or draw your second card per turn.
Key Cards
Vnwxt, Verbose Host
The commander of the deck, Vnwxt, Verbose Hostis a big power-up to the rest of your deck. Itsstart your engines abilitylets you get your max speed going, which youwant to get to four as quickly as possible. This lets Vnwxtdraw you an extra card whenever you draw.
Vnwxt will double all cards you draw. So if you play a Brainstorm to draw three cards, you will draw six cards instead if you have max speed.
Vnwxt only costs two mana, letting it hit the battlefield as quickly as possible. Youwant to cast Vnwxt as quickly as possible so you can start building up speed. If Vnwxt ever does get removed,wait to re-cast it until you have max speed, as there are plenty of other ways to get rid of your hand size limit that are much harder to remove.
Psychosis Crawler
Psychosis Crawlerisone of the best creatures in the deck. It’s the only way in mono blue todeal burn damage whenever you draw a card, and you will be doing that a lot over the course of the game (especially once you hit max speed). One Windfall can snowball into massive burn damage when combined with Vnwxt.
If a card requires you to discard your entire hand and draw new cards (such as Windfall), Psychosis Crawler will not die since state-based actions aren’t checked until the spell finishes resolving, and you’ll have a hand of cards once it does, keeping Psychosis Crawler alive.
Itsstats are always determined by however many cards are in your hand. If you somehow have no cards in hand,Psychosis Crawler will die from having zero toughness. However, this is almost never going to happen as you draw too many cards to have to worry about that.
Enduring Curiosity
You have a lot of creatures in the deck that can’t be blocked, and Enduring Curiosityturns their attacks into card draw as well. Enduring Curiositytriggers off of every creature that deals combat damage, so if three creatures connect, you’ll be drawing three cards.
Enduring Curiosity has flash, letting you cast it once you know your opponent isn’t blocking anything to gain even more card draw. It’s very resilient, asonce Enduring Curiosity dies, it turns into anenchantment, which is harder to get rid ofthan a creature. This forces your opponents to need two removal spells to get rid of it instead of just one.
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
Alandra, Sky Dreameris one of your main ways to amass a large battlefield.It triggers whenever you draw your second card in a turn, which includes your opponents' turns. In the right circumstances, you can create four 2/2 tokens with flying in just one turn cycle.
Once you achieve max speed, drawing five cards in one turn becomes much easier, letting yougive all of your tokens gain massive statssince you’ll have a ton of cards in your hand. Alandra bothgenerates a ton of tokens to make your battlefield largeand gives you a way to close out games in combat.
How To Play The Deck
A Vnwxt, Verbose Host Commander deck isaboutreaching max speed anddrawing a bunch of cards. Your first step in any game should be totrigger start your engines as fast as possible.
This can be done through Vnwxtitself, or through other cards likethe Raceway landsor Aether Syphon. They all have effects that you can use once you’re at max speed, making them great later in the game as well (especially Muraganda Raceway which turns into a land that taps for two mana).
Your speed increases by one every time an opponent(s) loses life. Your speed can only increase by one each turn, and once you have four speed, you achieve max speed permanently. Only a handful of cards can reduce your max speed, but they are too niche for you to ever have to realistically worry about.
Building your max speed is easy, thanks to how many unblockable creatures you have available to you.Triton Shorestalker, Slither Blade, andMist-Cloaked Heraldare just a few, withShoreline Looter being the best unblockable creatureas it’ll give you card draw as well. You can equip these with Empyrial Plate which will give a +1/+1 stat boost to the equipped creature equal to the number of cards in your hand.
The primary win condition of the deck iswinning through either combat,or with an alternate win condition.you’re able to draw through your library very quickly, enabling you to win from having an empty library with Jace, Wielder of Mysteries or Laboratory Maniac.
Alternatively,Twnety-Toed Toad and Triskaidekaphile both automatically win the gamewhen you have a specific number of cards in your hand. Many creatures grow with +1/+1 counters when you draw cards, letting you attack with massive creatures to win the game the old-fashioned way.
The biggest downside to the deck is its weakness to board wipes. Mono blue is not a good color for ramping, with High Tidebeing the only real option (and can only be used once). While a Vnwxt deck can build up a threatening battlefield, it can’t do a ton to replace it once it goes away.
Having max speed helps since Vnwxt will draw you extra cards to help rebuild.Counterspells also help to ensure no board wipes resolve, as otherwise it’ll be an uphill battle for you.
