Budget Gruul Werewolves by AragWalk

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This is a casual-to-mid-power Tovolar, Dire Overlord Wolf and Werewolf tribal deck. Its main engine is simple and effective: develop several tribal creatures, attack, and use Tovolar, Dire Overlord to draw a card for every connecting Wolf or Werewolf. The deck then converts those cards into more creatures, anthem effects, and combat finishers such as Overrun. Day/night transformations add power, mana, tokens, and occasional card selection, but they do not form a reliable combo. The deck has useful creature, artifact, enchantment, and land removal, yet much of that interaction is sorcery-speed or dependent on having creatures in play. Its main weakness is the long combat clock. A developed board can become a must-answer threat around turn 7, but eliminating all three opponents usually takes several attacks. The deck is strongest when it curves into Tovolar, Dire Overlord and keeps connecting attackers; it is much weaker after a sweeper or when opponents can block profitably.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon the Post
  • 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
  • 1 Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
  • 1 Ascendant Packleader
  • 1 Bristling Backwoods
  • 1 Burly Breaker // Dire-Strain Demolisher
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cult of the Waxing Moon
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Defend the Celestus
  • 1 Dire-Strain Rampage
  • 1 Duel for Dominance
  • 1 Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Full Moon's Rise
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Geier Reach Bandit // Vildin-Pack Alpha
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hermit of the Natterknolls // Lone Wolf of the Natterknolls
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howl of the Night Pack
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Howlpack Resurgence
  • 1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
  • 1 Immerwolf
  • 1 Into the Night
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Leaping Ambush
  • 1 Lunar Frenzy
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Mondronen Shaman // Tovolar's Magehunter
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonrager's Slash
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Nightpack Ambusher
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Pack's Betrayal
  • 1 Packsong Pup
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prey Upon
  • 1 Rabid Bite
  • 1 Racers' Ring
  • 1 Raze the Effigy
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Sage of Ancient Lore // Werewolf of Ancient Hunger
  • 1 Scorned Villager // Moonscarred Werewolf
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellrune Painter // Spellrune Howler
  • 1 Storm the Festival
  • 1 The Celestus
  • 1 Timber Gorge
  • 1 Torgal, A Fine Hound
  • 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 Moonrise
  • 1 Village Watch // Village Reavers
  • 1 Waxing Moon
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Wolf Strike
  • 1 Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline