Hunting Wargs by Rokagi

Format: Commander

Commander: Chief of the Wilds

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

Chief of the Wilds leads a Golgari Wolf typal midrange deck that blends aggressive combat pressure with multiplicative board scaling. The deck leverages its commander's passive ability to double triggered abilities from other Wolves while growing into a massive menace attacker. Key threats like Tovolar's Huntmaster, Hollowhenge Overlord, and Nightpack Ambusher flood the battlefield with 2/2 Wolf tokens at twice the normal rate. Card draw engines such as Garruk's Uprising, The Chief Warg, and Return of the Wildspeaker maintain resource velocity as the pack expands. Supporting combat pieces including Surrak and Goreclaw and Howlpack Resurgence ensure the swarm attacks with trample and haste, overwhelming defensive blockers. To survive opposing interaction, the deck employs flexible graveyard recursion like Patriarch's Bidding and protective spells such as Heroic Intervention. Operating on an ordinary Turn 5 assembly and Turn 6 critical onset, the deck cleanly closes out games through coordinated combat overrun by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
  • 1 Avabruck Caretaker // Hollowhenge Huntmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bejeweled Warg
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Cave of Temptation
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Chief Warg's Company
  • 1 Chief of the Wilds
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Duskwatch Hunter
  • 1 Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Garruk, Caller of Beasts
  • 1 Gnashing of Teeth
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Howlpack Resurgence
  • 1 In Search of Greatness
  • 1 Kessig Cagebreakers
  • 1 Mantle of the Wolf
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonmist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nighthowl Pursuer
  • 1 Nightpack Ambusher
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Packsong Pup
  • 1 Part in Friendship
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Raise the Draugr
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Ravening Warg
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Reverent Howl
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot Wolf
  • 1 Scorned Villager // Moonscarred Werewolf
  • 1 Silverfur Partisan
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 The Chief Warg
  • 1 Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unlikely Aid
  • 1 Urborg Repossession
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Wargling
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Wilderland Scrounger
  • 1 Winds of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Wolfcaller's Howl
  • 1 Wolfrider's Saddle