Wolverine Bar Fight by McDirty

Format: Commander

Commander: Wolverine, Best There Is

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Gruul fight-and-burn deck built around Wolverine, Best There Is, whose damage-doubling ability turns every fight spell into a removal-plus-growth engine. The plan is to cast Wolverine early, use the dense suite of fight spells (Prizefight, Ram Through, Tail Swipe, Titanic Brawl, and more) to kill opposing creatures while Wolverine's end-step trigger stacks +1/+1 counters, then multiply that damage with Fiery Emancipation, Absorbing Man and Titania, Unnatural Growth, and Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus before finishing with Chandra's Ignition or Soul's Fire for a one-shot kill. A secondary commander-damage path via Berserk and Rogue's Passage closes games when the burn finishers aren't drawn. The deck is a mid-power, creature-centric strategy with strong redundancy in its damage multipliers but a thin tutor suite and conditional draw.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Animist's Might
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Domri Rade
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Epic Fight
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Foe-Razer Regent
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 Heralds of the Shredder
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hunter's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Master's Rebuke
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myth Unbound
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Neyith of the Dire Hunt
  • 1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
  • 1 Prizefight
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rite of Passage
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Search for the Frozen Esper
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Setessan Tactics
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tail Swipe
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Time of Need
  • 1 Titanic Brawl
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wild Defiance
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wolverine, Best There Is
  • 1 Wolverine, Fierce Fighter
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus