30 bodies, 1 found

Strategy

This deck revolves around Volrath's Shapeshifter, which is one of the strangest cards in the game. For one, it directly mentions graveyard order, which must be maintained. Secondly, its "copy" effect is not actually a copy effect; it is a text-changing effect. This has an interesting effect with the copy cards of the deck in that when Volrath's Shapeshifter is imitating of them and must produce a copy of itself, the copy will be Volrath's SHapeshifter and NOT the imitated cards. More on that later.

The win condition is to attain three or four Volrath's Shapeshifter creatures in player and close the game by stomping your opponent to death. Also Biovisionary.

Copying and Resurrection

Let us say Volrath's Shapeshifter is on the field. If it would die, you can discard Chronozoa before that happens. If you do, its death trigger will spawn two copies of Volrath's Shapeshifter in its place because they did not receive time counters on them. As they enter, they will get time counters from Chronozoa's vanishing keyword, so this is not infinite. You can, however, cycle or discard a card before they enter (with Chronozoa's trigger on the stack) so they enter as their default states, but without time counters. You could then exile the discarded card with Psychatog or Armored Scrapgorger to make them Chronozoa again but without the time counters.

If Gruff Triplets is the top card of your graveyard as Volrath's Shapeshifter enters, you will get three Volrath's Shapeshifter creatures that imitate Gruff Triplets! This enables your silly combos the fastest.

Finally there is Reveillark. Though it produces no copies, if Volrath's Shapeshifter dies with it as your top card, you can target Volrath's Shapeshifter and another card with power 2 or less to resurrect. Reveillark works especially well with Mulldrifter, which works well with Volrath's Shapeshifter.

Bamboozling

If you have a way to discard, your opponents should fear you. Discarding Chronozoa or Reveillark before Volrath's Shapeshifter dies can be devastating. Wormfang Manta is the ultimate denier of hope. Even if your opponent has some mass exile effect, you could be getting multiple extra turns after this one, which can prove to be enough time to regather your forces.

To kill your opponent, discard a Colossal Skyturtle into your boards of Volrath's Shapeshifter, or even better Wormfang Manta.

Budgeting

You can actually find Volrath's Shapeshifter for much cheaper than its listed price on TCGPlayer, so really the listed price should be about ~$16 cheaper.
The other pricey cards in the deck are Lórien Revealed and Hinterland Harbor. These exist mostly for mana/land fixing, but Lórien Revealed is hard to pass up. If you can find comparable replacements, this will drop the price significantly.
You could also cut down on Chronozoa, favoring Gruff Triplets or Reveillark instead. Genesis is a questionable include too, so drop that if you are not into it. Master of Death can replace Krovikan Horror.

Sideboard

Removal sucks, so much so you may just want 4 Spell Pierce, and a Spellskite just because we have the toolboxing from Fauna Shaman. Striper Riverwinder is pretty nice too.
Masked Vandal for some artifact/enchantment removal. It has some synergy with the graveyard reordering too.
Nacatl War-Pride is a cute idea.
The rest are just awful ideas because I get fixated on greed.