New Untitled Deck by HurgleFurgle

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive Gruul tribal strategy helmed by Tovolar, Dire Overlord. The primary objective is to curve low-cost Wolves and Werewolves into a Turn 3 Tovolar, leveraging combat damage triggers to generate rapid card advantage. Once three pack members are in play, Tovolar automatically flips the board to Nightbound, transforming human Werewolves into oversized beaters with trample, menace, and anthem effects. To protect the Nightbound state from opposing double-spelling, the list integrates symmetrical spell taxes including Thorn of Amethyst, Sphere of Resistance, and Damping Sphere. While these artifacts mildly tax the deck's own curve, they break parity by preserving transformed Werewolves and crippling combo decks. Game-closing lethality arrives between Turn 6 and Turn 8 through wide combat damage boosted by Tovolar's Packleader, Shared Animosity, Beastmaster Ascension, or Triumph of the Hordes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
  • 1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury
  • 1 Avabruck Caretaker // Hollowhenge Huntmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Bird Admirer // Wing Shredder
  • 1 Burly Breaker // Dire-Strain Demolisher
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Damping Sphere
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dire-Strain Rampage
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 21 Forest
  • 1 Full Moon's Rise
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Geier Reach Bandit // Vildin-Pack Alpha
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 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 Hum of the Radix
  • 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
  • 1 Immerwolf
  • 1 Instigator Gang // Wildblood Pack
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Kruin Outlaw // Terror of Kruin Pass
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonmist
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nightpack Ambusher
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Runebound Wolf
  • 1 Scorned Villager // Moonscarred Werewolf
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Silverfur Partisan
  • 1 Sphere of Resistance
  • 1 The Celestus
  • 1 Thorn of Amethyst
  • 1 Torgal, A Fine Hound
  • 1 Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader
  • 1 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Ulrich of the Krallenhorde // Ulrich, Uncontested Alpha
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unnatural Moonrise
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Village Watch // Village Reavers
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Werewolf Pack Leader
  • 1 Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher