7 Days To the Wolves

Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya) Primer Theme/Gimmick Tokens

Cicjose

Land (37)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 8x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 8x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Tranquil Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Howl of the Night Pack
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Creature (22)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Hermit of the Natterknolls  ^Flip
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Karametra, God of Harvests *f-etch*
• 1x Kessig Cagebreakers
• 1x Master of the Wild Hunt
• 1x Mayor of Avabruck  ^Flip
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Nightpack Ambusher
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Pack Guardian
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Roaring Primadox
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Silverfur Partisan
• 1x Tolsimir Wolfblood
• 1x Wicked Wolf
• 1x Wolfbriar Elemental
• 1x Wolfir Avenger
• 1x Young Wolf

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Howlpack Resurgence
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x The Mending of Dominaria
• 1x Wolfcaller's Howl

Instant (2)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Settle the Wreckage

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Icon of Ancestry
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Selesnya Locket
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Huatli, Radiant Champion
• 1x Vivien Reid

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Introduction

We now have a dedicated Wolf Tribal Commander, and her abilities seem very strong. The first thing to note is that she's a dedicated wolf creature factory, so we want to be able to abuse that ability as much as possible, but her second ability is the possible downside to the deck, she makes a lot of wolves with repeatable ease but wolves are historically not creatures with the highest power and toughness

Reading this decklist

The idea is simple enough, make as many wolves as possible and provide them with enough anthem effects to make profitable attacks either, as a downright swarm of tokens or to activate abilities to allow them to continue to grow.

Color

Commander: Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves, so it limits my colour selection away from Red which is the other supported colour for werewolves

Strengths

Popping out lots of wolves with all card types in my deck, plenty of flexible ways to create wolf tokens.

From Feed the Pack

Helm of the Host

Wolfbriar Elemental

Arlinn, Voice of the Pack

all different card types but also the most reliable ways to provide wolves

Weaknesses

As with all token style decks board wipes are our biggest weakness,

Creeping Renaissance

Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Vivien Reid

The Mending of Dominaria are all in the deck to primarily recover from boardwipes but the best creature that can help me after a boardwipe is

Kessig Cagebreakers

The Strategy

The idea is simple enough, make as many wolves as possible and provide them with enough anthem effects to make profitable attacks either, as a downright swarm of tokens or to activate abilities to allow them to continue to grow.

Creatures

There is a tight consideration when selecting Wolves in Magic. Werewolves and Wolves are 2 different creature types so making sure I stay with as many Wolves as possible and despite having some werewolves in the deck they provide multiple benefits when flipped to either reduce cost of creature spells or to provide an anthem effect such as the case with Mayor of Avabruck   and Nightpack Ambusher

The best creatures in the deck are either Master of the Wild Hunt or Wolfbriar Elemental Ramunap Excavator is to stop cards like Field of Ruin, Strip Mine, Ghost Quarter, Wasteland from taking my utility lands.

Early Game

Get out my commander as soon as possible, then start ramping to maximise my token producers.

Mid Game

Once the ramp has been set up to try and get one of my planeswalkers out whilst making sure that i find as many of 14 anthem effects like; Metallic Mimic Coat of Arms Door of Destinies so they can protect my planeswalkers and then get Shalai, Voice of Plenty to protect them from targeted removal until I can set up the trample effects with Nylea, God of the Hunt or Vivien Reid.

Late Game

Now with things set up I can either sink my mana into Shalai, Voice of Plenty or Gavony Township but along the way I'm likely to lose a fair chunk of my work to boardwipes.

Contingency

Making sure that my mana producers get protected with Shalai, Voice of Plenty, and that I can protect her long enough to generate large sums of mana with Gaea's Cradle and Growing Rites of Itlimoc   to sink into Gavony Township or card: Marshall's Anthem

The other consideration is how to recover from board wipes which will be the downfall of the deck if I don't have enough recovery cards like:

Creeping Renaissance Emeria, The Sky Ruin The Mending of Dominaria Ramunap Excavator or Genesis Wave

Combos

Interesting synergies can be utilised with The Mending of Dominaria and Garruk, Caller of Beasts second ability allowing you to grab your biggest creature from the graveyard and put them straight onto the battlefield.

Pack Guardian gives you wolves for discarding lands, if you have Ramunap Excavator you can discard a land, get a wolf, play the land from your graveyard and with Karametra, God of Harvests get another land from your deck into play

Cloudstone Curio is mainly to make sure that i can keep Arlinn, Voice of the Pack on the field as long as possible, but it can serve nicely to buff up any of my wolves when if i have a Metallic Mimic in play or to create more wolves repeating the Pack Guardian and Ramunap Excavator synergy

Other Cards

Ramp is essential in green so cards like:

Karametra, God of Harvests

Kodama's Reach

Explosive Vegetation

Tempt with Discovery

can get the lands out of my deck and allow me to draw more gas into the late game.

Changelog

Screwed up by having the Garruk Relentless   planeswalker due to colour identity had to come out.

Easy fix though with another anthem effect in place via the land Gavony Township

Helix Pinnacle is too slow, and would take up to much mana to be efficient in the deck so another anthem effect comes into the deck in its place with the original Tolsimir Tolsimir Wolfblood

A new anthem effect has been printed in M20, which has 2 modes which allows me to find another creature of the same type in Icon of Ancestry that comes in for Solemnity which is a good card but doesnt help me with my own strategy and is narrow against certain strategies

Removed a boardwipe for a new wolf spoiled in Throne of Eldraine Wicked Wolf a very good Helm of the Host target especially with a few anthem effects taking down creatures every combat step

Top Ranked	Achieved #48 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #34 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #3 position in Commander / EDH Primer 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.13
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Emblem Huatli, Radiant Champion, Emblem Vivien Reid, Human 2/2 G, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Voja, Voja, Friend to Elves, Wolf 2/2 G
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