Wolves, Werewolves & a Savage Beating

Commander / EDH RG (Gruul) Transform Werewolf Wolf

Cmywilli

Creature (32)

• 1x Ascendant Packleader
• 1x Fearless Pup
• 1x Kessig Prowler  ^Flip
• 1x Reckless Waif  ^Flip
• 1x Snarling Wolf
• 1x Timber Wolves
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Village Messenger  ^Flip
• 1x Wolfbitten Captive  ^Flip
• 1x Young Wolf
• 1x Deranged Whelp
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Ember-Eye Wolf
• 1x Gatstaf Shepherd  ^Flip
• 1x Guardian Gladewalker
• 1x Hinterland Hermit  ^Flip
• 1x Hinterland Logger  ^Flip
• 1x Hungry Ridgewolf
• 1x Kessig Forgemaster  ^Flip
• 1x Kessig Naturalist  ^Flip
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Mayor of Avabruck  ^Flip
• 1x Outland Liberator  ^Flip
• 1x Packsong Pup
• 1x Runebound Wolf
• 1x Scorned Villager  ^Flip
• 1x Village Ironsmith  ^Flip
• 1x Wandering Wolf
• 1x Breakneck Rider  ^Flip
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Geier Reach Bandit  ^Flip
• 1x Afflicted Deserter  ^Flip

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Quest for Pure Flame
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Goblin War Drums
• 1x Howlpack Resurgence
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1x Unnatural Growth

Instant (11)

• 1x Blossoming Defense
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Ranger's Guile
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Moonlight Hunt
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Wrap in Vigor
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Grab the Reins

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x Fury of the Horde

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Land (35)

• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 13x Forest
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Timbercrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (3)

• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Eldrazi Monument

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Maybeboard

Creature (30)

• 1x Darkthicket Wolf
• 1x Fire-Belly Changeling
• 1x Lambholt Harrier
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Pestilent Wolf
• 1x Quilled Wolf
• 1x Scourge Wolf
• 1x Timberpack Wolf
• 1x Werewolf Pack Leader
• 1x Woodland Changeling
• 1x Wyluli Wolf
• 1x Hermit of the Natterknolls  ^Flip
• 1x Hound Tamer  ^Flip
• 1x Immerwolf
• 1x Kruin Outlaw  ^Flip
• 1x Pyreheart Wolf
• 1x Silverfur Partisan
• 1x Tovolar, Dire Overlord  ^Flip
• 1x Ulrich's Kindred
• 1x Anara, Wolvid Familiar
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Mondronen Shaman  ^Flip
• 1x Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• 1x Nightpack Ambusher
• 1x Cult of the Waxing Moon
• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Village Watch  ^Flip
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Platinum Angel

Land (18)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Castle Embereth
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Taiga

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Bower Passage
• 1x Full Moon's Rise
• 1x Gravity Well
• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Gruul War Chant

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Whirlwind
• 1x World at War
• 1x Howl of the Night Pack

Instant (18)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Guttural Response
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Burnout
• 1x Duel for Dominance
• 1x Fall of the Hammer
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Moonmist
• 1x Pounce
• 1x Ram Through
• 1x Reap
• 1x Seedtime
• 1x Setessan Tactics
• 1x Winds of Qal Sisma
• 1x Savage Beating

Artifact (4)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Arlinn Kord  ^Flip
• 1x Arlinn, the Pack's Hope  ^Flip

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If you have ever seen Edric, Spymaster of Trest deck running around taking extra turns with winnies... then this will feel very similar. Unlike Edric... we can't run optimal winnies in either cost efficiency for stacking the board or evasion but! We do get to play with wolves and werewolves... so you should have already expected this to be sub-optimal but a lot of Tribal Fun!

I love playing any version of Edric (Budget, CEDH, Tribal, ect.). I also really enjoy Tribal decks of any nature regardless of format... and I especially enjoy werewolf lore. So when I seen the new legendary werewolf Tovolar, Dire Overlord  ... I had to combine it all!

Optimal Turn openings for draw/speed will go as follows:

1. T1: Land, Mass Hysteria or Concordant Crossroads; T2: Land, 2CC wolf/werewolf; T3: Land, Tovolar, Dire Overlord  ... and enjoy. This is an aggressive deck so you should be able to optimize on the early haste more then your opponents and if not & if they try to capitalize on it, then they won't have blockers to stop your draw. You will see more of your cards with this start then any other.

2. T1: Land, 1CC Wolf/werewolf; T2: Land, 2CC wolf/werewolf; T3: Land, Tovolar, Dire Overlord  ... By far will be your most common start. This will get you the second deepest in your deck if left to atk openly.

3. T2: Land, 1CC Ramp (don't forget Green Sun's Zenith can grab Dryad Arbor on this turn for ramp); T2: Land, Tovolar, Dire Overlord  ; T3: Land, put 2 wolves/werewolves into play. This is the slowest of the three openers in terms of digging for fun stuff but! gets you more mana a little sooner in the game & by Turn 5/6 it's caught up in terms of drawing power.

In the end, you will want to mold your removal and/or answers to your meta. I put the ones I felt would be most universally useful in the deck & other less common idea's in the maybe-board. In the maybe-board I also included some other upgrades & substitutions I considered & maybe still use.

Your meta will also dictate if you need to play a little more cautiously, of course... and maybe not go for any of the above mentioned quickest starts but rather leave mana open for responses and play a turn or two off. Just remember your critters are a bit smaller so the longer you hold out on atking with this deck, the less draw and cards you will see... not to mention the bigger creatures will drop on there end.

If you roll with all the extra combat step cards rather then some of the enchantments I went with... it is possible to cycle combat steps into each other on T5 or T6 but it requires a little more haste in the deck & an early lucky draw of one of you ramp/untap land effects. Another possibly more affordable route would be to go with more traditional ramp spells instead of the untap effects & swap in some traditional green wincons like Overrun & Overwhelming Stampede effects. There are some pretty cool creatures out there with those effects built into them either as an ETB or upon atk & they are pretty affordable. The only expensive one for the most part is Craterhoof Behemoth.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Day, Human 2/2 G, Night, Wolf 2/2 G