Bears, Battles and Wolves

Format: Commander

Commander: Chief of the Wilds

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Golgari tribal deck is helmed by Chief of the Wilds, a commander built to amplify Wolf and Battle triggers. The primary game plan is to deploy a dense swarm of Wolves and Bears, supported by a suite of Siege battles (the Invasion cycle), which provide flexible value in the form of creature tutors, removal, ramp, and recursion. The commander's ability to double triggered abilities turns each Wolf or Battle into a repeatable engine, while token generators like Chief Warg's Company and Hollowhenge Overlord quickly flood the board. Finishing power comes from massive combat steps boosted by Unnatural Growth, trample enablers like Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma and Beorn the Fierce, and the steady accumulation of +1/+1 counters. Backup plans include reanimation via The Soul Stone and Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist, plus the graveyard-to-battlefield trigger of Part in Friendship. The deck is a value-oriented midrange engine that wins through overwhelming creature presence rather than infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animist's Awakening
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ascendant Packleader
• 1 Awaken the Woods
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Bejeweled Warg
• 1 Beorn the Fierce
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Briarpack Alpha
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chief Warg's Company
• 1 Chief of the Wilds
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Desolation Prowler
• 1 Duskwatch Hunter
• 1 Evercoat Ursine
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Ferocious Pup
• 1 Flourishing Hunter
• 8 Forest
• 1 Gigantic Big Bear
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Grizzly Ghoul
• 1 Head of the Hunt
• 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
• 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
• 1 Invasion of Innistrad // Deluge of the Dead
• 1 Invasion of Ixalan // Belligerent Regisaur
• 1 Invasion of Lorwyn // Winnowing Forces
• 1 Invasion of Muraganda // Primordial Plasm
• 1 Invasion of Ravnica // Guildpact Paragon
• 1 Invasion of Shandalar // Leyline Surge
• 1 Invasion of Ulgrotha // Grandmother Ravi Sengir
• 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
• 1 Little Bear
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 1 Necklace of Girion
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nighthowl Pursuer
• 1 Nightpack Ambusher
• 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
• 1 Packsong Pup
• 1 Part in Friendship
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Rampaging Yao Guai
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
• 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Tempt with Discovery
• 1 The Chief Warg
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Tom, Bert, and William
• 1 Troop of Ponies
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Wargling
• 1 Werebear
• 1 Wilderland Scrounger
• 1 Witchstalker
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth