wolves by user2249118

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

Tovolar, Dire Overlord commands an aggressive Gruul combat deck that leverages Werewolf and Wolf tribal synergies to overrun opponents. The game plan focuses on deploying low-cost pack members during the opening turns, casting Tovolar on Turn 3, and immediately connecting in combat to generate card advantage. By meeting the condition of three or more Wolves or Werewolves, Tovolar triggers an automatic transformation to Night at upkeep, flipping the pack into their high-powered Nightbound forms. The deck accelerates into massive damage multipliers such as Beastmaster Ascension and Unnatural Growth, using trample and menace to push through lethal combat damage by Turn 7. Fast artifact mana and green creature tutors ensure rapid, consistent starts, while protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Deflecting Swat safeguard the board against sweepers and targeted removal. Although vulnerable to mass exile and heavy board interaction, the deck's steady stream of card draw and redundant creature threats provides robust mid-game resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
  • 1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury
  • 1 Ascendant Packleader
  • 1 Avabruck Caretaker // Hollowhenge Huntmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Full Moon's Rise
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Geier Reach Bandit // Vildin-Pack Alpha
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hermit of the Natterknolls // Lone Wolf of the Natterknolls
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Howlpack Resurgence
  • 1 Huntmaster of the Fells // Ravager of the Fells
  • 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
  • 1 Immerwolf
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Instigator Gang // Wildblood Pack
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kruin Outlaw // Terror of Kruin Pass
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Mondronen Shaman // Tovolar's Magehunter
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonmist
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Nightpack Ambusher
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Packsong Pup
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sage of Ancient Lore // Werewolf of Ancient Hunger
  • 1 Scorned Villager // Moonscarred Werewolf
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Celestus
  • 1 Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader
  • 1 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge
  • 1 Ulrich of the Krallenhorde // Ulrich, Uncontested Alpha
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Volatile Arsonist // Dire-Strain Anarchist
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Werewolf Pack Leader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor