For Whom the Wolf Howls
Commander / EDH
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Recent changes. —Oct. 12, 2014
Since the release of Khan's I've reworked a few of the support elements of the deck: Raking Canopy was swapped out for Gaea's Anthem, Creeping Renaissance took a seat for Gaea's Blessing, and I cut one wolf (Briarpack Alpha) in lieu of adding a support card (Parallel Lives) that favorably interacts with other wolves (specifically wolf tokens, I have quite a few things that make them) that also, as an added bonus, features double wolves on the artwork.
There really aren't any existing cards that I know about now that I'd want to slot into the deck but haven't for budgetary reasons (apart from certain dual lands and foils), but I'm still holding out a faint hope that they "might" print Tovolar in card form in the upcoming Commander release; at this point I don't even care what that card would do, it would get in for flavor reasons alone, heh.
gildan_bladeborn says... #2
I generally try to avoid running creature enchantments due to the risk of being 2-for-1ed (Raised by Wolves
made the cut primarily because it also makes wolves).
Borborygmos is cool, but I only own the one and he's in my other Gruul deck. Also he doesn't really do enough as a completely off-tribe creature to warrant a spot - I only run 8 off-tribe creatures now, and half of those interact with/make wolves (or allow me to cast one that interacts with wolves), with the other half basically playing the roles of enchantments that sometimes attack or block.
Vigor is out of my price range, and much like Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger , is a card I consider inherently unfun to play against and thus would feel dirty putting it in a commander deck even if I did have one. It would certainly be useful though.
Isochron Scepter ... is an interesting suggestion, I'd never considered that all my instants combo with that. As neat as getting to repeatedly cast spells is, I don't think I can really justify making room for the scepter on the list - I only have the 5 instants in my deck now, so getting both the scepter and a spell to imprint on it so it's not a total dead-draw seems like more of a "Magical Christmas-land" scenario than a realistic possibility when my deck has basically zero library-manipulation. Putting Moonmist on the scepter would be pretty damn rad though, and now I really want to do that.
carpecanum says... #1
Borborygmos fits the gruul trample theme. Vigor would help a lot but isn't themey (and costs a lot right now).
Vow of Wildness and Aspect of Wolf would fit the theme.
Isochron Scepter would work with any of your instants.
September 24, 2014 8:45 p.m.