Adrian Riva by user8487598

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is an aggressive, combat-driven Werewolf tribal list commanded by Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge. The primary game plan curves low-cost Wolves and Werewolves on the opening turns, deploys Tovolar on Turn 3 to convert early combat connections into immediate card draw, and triggers Night on Turn 4 to flip the pack into high-statted threats. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck scales through token generators like Hollowhenge Overlord and Tovolar's Huntmaster, augmented by mass damage multipliers such as Unnatural Growth and extra combat spells. While the deck possesses a compact infinite combat line via Spellbinder and Savage Beating, its core strength lies in overwhelming creature pressure backed by protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Full Moon's Rise. Although vulnerable to mass exile sweepers and lacking stack interaction against opposing non-creature combos, its exceptional card velocity and aggressive clock consistently pressure multiplayer tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 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 Bejeweled Warg
  • 1 Bird Admirer // Wing Shredder
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bounding Wolf
  • 1 Burly Breaker // Dire-Strain Demolisher
  • 1 Carnivorous Canopy
  • 1 Cemetery Prowler
  • 1 Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Defend the Celestus
  • 1 Dire-Strain Rampage
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fangblade Brigand // Fangblade Eviscerator
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fog
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Full Moon's Rise
  • 1 Fungal Reaches
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Highland Weald
  • 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howl of the Hunt
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
  • 1 Into the Night
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lambholt Harrier
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lunar Frenzy
  • 1 Mantle of the Wolf
  • 1 Moonmist
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pit of Offerings
  • 1 Primal Adversary
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Ridgeline
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rot Wolf
  • 1 Runebound Wolf
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellbinder
  • 1 Spellrune Painter // Spellrune Howler
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tavern Ruffian // Tavern Smasher
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 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 Unnatural Moonrise
  • 1 Volt Charge
  • 1 Waxing Moon
  • 1 Weary Prisoner // Wrathful Jailbreaker
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Werewolf Pack Leader
  • 1 Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher
  • 1 Wolfrider's Saddle
  • 1 Worldly Tutor