Day and Night by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Commander: Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Gruul Werewolf tribal deck is helmed by Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge, built to dominate games through aggressive creature combat, Day/Night manipulation, and steady card draw. The deck curves low-cost Wolves and Werewolves into a Turn 3 Tovolar, leveraging combat connections to draw 2–3 extra cards per turn cycle while satisfying Tovolar's 3-Wolf threshold. Once Nightbound is active, Werewolves transform into undercosted, high-power beaters that overwhelm opponents through trample, token doubling, and pump effects. The mana base is supported by efficient 1–2 CMC acceleration and cost reducers. While the deck possesses remarkable card flow and linear combat pressure, its primary limitations stem from near-total reliance on nonland permanents, heavy vulnerability to mass sweepers, and very low instant-speed interaction to disrupt opposing combo wins.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
  • 1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury
  • 1 Avabruck Caretaker // Hollowhenge Huntmaster
  • 1 Ballista Watcher // Ballista Wielder
  • 1 Bird Admirer // Wing Shredder
  • 1 Brimstone Vandal
  • 1 Burly Breaker // Dire-Strain Demolisher
  • 1 Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Fangblade Brigand // Fangblade Eviscerator
  • 1 Fearful Villager // Fearsome Werewolf
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harvesttide Infiltrator // Harvesttide Assailant
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
  • 1 Hookhand Mariner // Riphook Raider
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howl of the Hunt
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Howlpack Resurgence
  • 1 Howlpack Wolf
  • 1 Hungry Ridgewolf
  • 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
  • 1 Immerwolf
  • 1 Infestation Expert // Infested Werewolf
  • 1 Into the Night
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonmist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nightpack Ambusher
  • 1 Oakshade Stalker // Moonlit Ambusher
  • 1 Obsessive Astronomer
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Pack's Betrayal
  • 1 Packsong Pup
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Runebound Wolf
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Silverfur Partisan
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellrune Painter // Spellrune Howler
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spirit of the Hunt
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunstreak Phoenix
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tavern Ruffian // Tavern Smasher
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Celestus
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Tireless Hauler // Dire-Strain Brawler
  • 1 Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader
  • 1 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge
  • 1 Ulrich's Kindred
  • 1 Unnatural Moonrise
  • 1 Village Watch // Village Reavers
  • 1 Volatile Arsonist // Dire-Strain Anarchist
  • 1 Weary Prisoner // Wrathful Jailbreaker
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline