Tovolar, Dire Overlord by DRowntree

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a midrange tribal combat strategy led by Tovolar, Dire Overlord. It develops Wolves and Werewolves, attacks to draw cards, and uses daybound/nightbound transformations to improve its board. Early plays such as Kessig Naturalist, Mayor of Avabruck, Ranger Class, and Duskwatch Recruiter establish creatures and improve access. Tovolar is the main engine: each successful combat connection replaces cards and lets the deck keep building pressure. The main closing tools are Beastmaster Ascension, Unnatural Growth, Shared Animosity, Overwhelming Stampede, and Savage Beating. Ordinary assembly is around turn 5, while the first decisive board usually appears around turn 7. The deck can finish through several combat steps, but it is not a compact combo deck. Its main limitations are vulnerable creatures, limited stack interaction, high-cost finishers, and incomplete access to specific enchantments. Protection helps against destroy effects but does not cover exile, bounce, sacrifice, or sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
  • 1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Avabruck Caretaker // Hollowhenge Huntmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Bestial Bloodline
  • 1 Bow of Nylea
  • 1 Burly Breaker // Dire-Strain Demolisher
  • 1 Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Geier Reach Bandit // Vildin-Pack Alpha
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Highland Forest
  • 1 Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
  • 1 Howling Moon
  • 1 Howlpack Piper // Wildsong Howler
  • 1 Huntmaster of the Fells // Ravager of the Fells
  • 1 Immerwolf
  • 1 Instigator Gang // Wildblood Pack
  • 1 Kessig Cagebreakers
  • 1 Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Kruin Outlaw // Terror of Kruin Pass
  • 1 Mantle of the Wolf
  • 1 Mayor of Avabruck // Howlpack Alpha
  • 1 Mondronen Shaman // Tovolar's Magehunter
  • 1 Moonlight Hunt
  • 1 Moonrager's Slash
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Neglected Heirloom // Ashmouth Blade
  • 1 Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pack's Betrayal
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sage of Ancient Lore // Werewolf of Ancient Hunger
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Signal the Clans
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Celestus
  • 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 Ulrich's Kindred
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unnatural Moonrise
  • 1 Village Watch // Village Reavers
  • 1 Weaver of Blossoms // Blossom-Clad Werewolf
  • 1 Wolfir Silverheart
  • 1 You Happen On a Glade