The Best Werewolf Commander: A Guide To Tovolar, Dire Overlord EDH | Innistrad Midnight Hunt | MTG

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Mistakes Magic: The Gathering Players Make: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2m1l6mdj6mXirs

[@Xalyn937]

I watch that vid at least once per week.

[@melonyfbb]

Suddenly… B&R 9 Sep- Tovolar banned

[@melonyfbb]

Mistakes WOTc makes

[@GigidyGigidy234]

I'd love to see a commander tech on a non-giant tribal Minsc, Beloved Ranger. I love that guy!

[@rdnick114]

Would love to see a deck tech on either Sevinne, the Chronoclasm...Kykar, Wind's Fury...or any Party themed deck. Thank you Prof. Keep up the good work. :)

[@tomwitty465]

Maybe this was too obvious to mention, but the extra combat steps also feed into the Unnatural Growth, since it is worded as “at the beginning of each combat.” Your creatures could keep doubling and doubling in a single turn and become absolutely monstrous.

[@Skrotislol]

Yeah. That card is a real bomb in green stompy decks.

[@LithmusEarth]

I was just penciling a comment to also point this out. A 4/4 swings for both 8 and 16; That's 6x it's actual power in a single round for one dude!

[@assassin_nr_1271]

Imagine that in a, at least partial green dinosaur deck, Ghalta and Rampaging Brontodon - ouch! Incidentally Unnatural Growth also makes Ghalta easier to cast in the second main phase.

[@ZaneTruesdale007]

Mfer i didnt know that

[@2senwolfgirl]

@@Skrotislol 9S

[@brettmcknight4677]

The Professor: "The Josh Lee Kwais of the world" Josh Lee Kwai: MY PEOPLE NEED ME

[@starfish753]

Im 25 years old and my 2 older brothers have been playing magic for years now ever sense it started and I played a few times in the past few years but finally decided to purchase my first ever Commander deck because that's what they play. I do have to admit I have Been watching a lot of your videos lately and I do have to say that it has been a huge help. I Purchased the Innistrad Midnight hunt deck along with a set booster pack which should arrive by Oct 1st. I'm not the smartest person nor very good at card games but I do Love playing and love the ability to really craft your material so even when I do lose 10+ games I will still have a smile on my face due to the amount of fun I will be having...( I really don't like to lose thought) THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO, I love watching your videos and looking forward to the future!

[@ToxicAtom]

I'm hoping that as more of the set's revealed, we'll have more decent wolves to line the deck with instead of having to lean on so many near-vanilla flippers

[@Squidxx-fg7ih]

Looking like that's not the case sadly

[@hermansonge-aakre2839]

@@Squidxx-fg7ih really?

[@ToxicAtom]

@@Squidxx-fg7ih I have a feeling they're saving the best for last. Or, at least most for last.

[@Squidxx-fg7ih]

@@hermansonge-aakre2839 we've seen all the mythical I think except one and a lot of rares so far there's two playable werewolves so while I wish I'm wrong I don't see much else good coming from this set

[@MistahStompy]

Sadly they usually just reveal a ton of commons/uncommons last 😥.

[@alexanderstorm6062]

I`d like to see you play this deck at Game Knights. Also if you could, I`d see a primer to Prossh

[@grimtides]

I think it might suit I hate your deck a bit more :D

[@alexanderstorm6062]

@@grimtides Yeah, that'd be a format to play this deck as well... ;)

[@legendofdarknes]

Thanks for the upload, Professor. Hope you’re doing well! 😌

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

I am, and I hope you are too!

[@TheAmericanDragn]

Werewolves are quite possibly my favorite tribe in the game and I am so happy they are giving us the means to play a werewolf commander deck with the new set. :)

[@myhairismessy3363]

11:58 Entwine is an additional cost (CR702.42a), so you would still need to pay the entwine cost if you wanted both modes.

[@alekseypetrov5354]

I wanted to point to that rule too. Thank you.

[@chrisgebben2043]

yep thats right

[@luismiguelmonteiro1983]

@noah Gore Radha, Heir to Keld has you covered fam :D

[@joenic4662]

As soon as he said that, I started looking through the comments to make sure someone caught it and corrected it. Too bad most people will not know that he was slightly mistaken and now they'll be playing it incorrectly.

[@PTNLemay]

9:01 There’s a nice new mana-producing artifact in Innistrad, the Celestus. It also helps werewolves by giving you control of the day/night cycle for 3 mana. And giving you +1 life any time that cycle shift happens. It’s less aggro though, more about recovery

[@rdyyoung3]

Keeping our eyes open on The Celestus May be prudent

[@magic_claw]

Mentioned at 15:01

[@ValariaxSword]

I like the extra combat steps take here. I’m pretty stoked for Tovolar. I have a majority of these cards already so not a stretch to slap this together.

[@blackknightjack3850]

It sounds nice in theory until you realize that, unlike extra turns, you don't untap your lands after each combat.

[@joshuapoland575]

I'VE WAITED FOR SO LONG. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY JOY!

[@easyyo6784]

same

[@TimStamper89]

I frequently put a prof playlist on through the day just to ramp them views and for a nice bit of back ground. Background that eventually has me ignoring what I was supposed to do and watching a card sleeve review for the 8th time

[@LightBender777]

That combo with spellbinder is actually crazier than you were explaining because it would trigger twice on a creature with double strike.

[@ZaneTruesdale007]

Combine with rogue's passage gg

[@1996jgm]

i have my deck fully prepared, i'll start to play my werewolf deck after YEARS of playin it in modern, im so excited i'll cry

[@Vulturnos]

Same here. I am just getting a few cards I didnt have in the modern deck and getting ready for commander, finally!

[@vaibhavkoneru3283]

Can I get a list for you modern werewolf deck sounds cool

[@tempestandacomputer6951]

Interested to see how you are playing this in modern

[@harveyswan5645]

Post up your modern list!!

[@tempestandacomputer6951]

This man really just gonna say he plays modern werewolves and leave us hanging

[@ac4941]

Thanks for video. I am just new to MTG and bought my first deck (Wyleth) + some Midnight Hunt boosters and pulled Tovolar and Unnatural Growth, now I know a second deck I can make with my cards :D

[@timothybaker7708]

I've had a werewolf commander deck for 5 years now, so happy it'll finally shine

[@FrankJosephHall]

I’m surprised Rhythm of the Wild isn’t in this deck, I fell like it would be a great card to include

[@dc98424]

@@supernova86 I thought you were mentioning hullbreacher and being sarcastic, but hull breach is a solid option

[@Smokie84]

Howl of the night pack and arlinn, voice of the pack would work well too

[@matteobagni1235]

I think haste enablers are key for this tribe, too easy to remove

[@TheEnd-jt1db]

pipi

[@MarvTheMadKing]

Village Watch (R) and Hound Tamer (G) are also nice werewolves for it. Former gives all haste and latter all trample (on their transformed side)

[@keeyancorbitt1]

Would love to see a decklist you had in mind for this cause I love werewolves!

[@thomasjefferson6418]

Same

[@jeppekjr4618]

It’s in the description

[@SwitchBladeX89]

The many Mayor(s) of Avabruck is the best running joke. It keeps coming back and never gets old.

[@christopherbranom1265]

@Tolarian Community College. I just wanted to take the time to say thank you! This deck looks awesome and I can't wait to build it! I wish you and your team the best of luck in all of your endeavors.

[@drakefire6675]

I'd really like it if the old werewolf cards got some sort of daybond-nightbond errata. I've been messing around with a werewolf deck in Arena, and it's pretty fun. A lot smoother than the older werewolf felt like when playing.

[@wadeaminute6061]

Already have all my werewolf stuff lined up for my deck. I'm so pumped for Tovolar!

[@Ninetails113]

Thank you so much for this video! I just got into magic with the release of midnight hunt. Werewolves were the first deck that caught my eye, and in turn the first I made to battle my play group. Since I started I’ve grown quite allot, so doubling back to my first deck and upgrading it to make it lethal is exactly what I was looking for! 😁

[@richardcarlton1309]

You asked about deck techs we would like to see. I am very interested in Tergrid, God of Fright. I have seen it played a few times, but they were sloppy haphazard decks. I would love to see a merciless version. You know the deck that once your friends see it the groans can be heard in the next state over. I know you are a busy man and may not get to it. But I did wish to offer my two cents. Either way thank you for the many hours of entertainment you have provided myself and others throughout the years. You are a good man Charlie Brown. Have an awesome day !!

[@RazgrizAce67]

Cards that give creatures flash are valuable in tribal werewolves to help them transform. With how the new day/night mechanic works cards like Aluren and Vernal Equinox are interesting because it not only does it allow you to transform your werewolves by playing them not on your turn but it also incentives other players to not play on their own turns.

[@MikeF031]

Been wanting to make a deck like this for a long time. This was so informative, thank you!

[@nealbeattie2947]

SO Happy Prof brought up the Spellbinder/Savage Beating combo! Its been one of my fav combinations of cards since OG Mirrodin!

[@Wolff_Mortem]

I run tovolar after 7 years away from MTG....thanks for the content dude...I need some of these referenced cards...you got a subscriber just off this video alone

[@True_Lycan]

that infinate combat step combo... now that's spicy! Huge ups for the heads-up on that one!

[@jamesmoore1317]

As soon as I saw the cards for it I was like, "oh yeah, that game over right there"!

[@GamesAreAHobby]

As much as everyone is on the werewolf hype train (and they should be, congrats! you finally got what you've waited for! :D), I myself have always loved the gothic horror investigator theme. Investigate was left by the wayside and I couldn't quite get the groove of the noir detective out of Lonis, Cryptozoologist. Enter Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth, a commander using BOTH of my favorite keywords in magic on the same card in my favorite two colors of magic since i started playing a decade ago. An artistofacts deck based around binning cards you're not after (YET.) and cracking both creatures and clues to get to the bottom of this case. traditional control packages combine with artifact synergies and aristocrats to make a very unusual form of control at a table of 3 opponents and I'd love to see your take on the investigations she's DELVING into out in the rainy gutters of the Erdwal (or as other denizens call it, "the Ditch.") PS. I really hope prof sees this cuz i'm just so excited about Eloise I can't contain it!

[@angelojohnson9441]

I’ve tried to watch every one of your videos for the past 5 years. Let’s see how far back I need to go.

[@AceOfCubes]

I'm so glad I saved all my werewolf cards ever since my very first commander deck, it was so bad at first, but I'm so excited to be able to use it again and have it actually be threatening!

[@hivesliver]

Thank you. I might not be building the commander but it did help me defurmin what to run in my quick style swing werewolves

[@KidAlphaMax]

This deck tech has me howling to make a werewolf deck. I would love to see a Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist deck tech.

[@josephdurham4950]

nice hanging with ya today prof! great vid!

[@thefinalsins]

This is a very well constructed video. Thanks Prof.

[@hikingbird42]

Saw this video the night before pre release packs were available. Pulled tovalar in my first draft booster! Extremely glad I got what I wanted

[@cheezie_jesoo4427]

prof you was BENDING that card in the intro LOOOOOOL

[@magicaggy]

thank you! had about half of these in my tovolar deck already but was having trouble focusing the deck and making it reliable and this will hopefully help with that!

[@amarauk9687]

Oh boy a deck tech from the prof, what a treat :)

[@nickguevarra9088]

I build Ulrich, when i was starting Magic way back 2016, just to be dissappointed, good thing oathbreaker came and i build Arlin kord but no one in my lgs played oathbreaker. And now, finally a commander for my favorite tribe, thanks wizards.. and prof for deck ideas. .

[@djbisson9819]

Oh I would just love to see a tech on Jeska/Falthis partner commanders.

[@tzarl]

11:46 Spellbinder will let you copy Savage Beating for free, but it will *NOT* let you entwine it for free, since entwine is an additional cost. It's the same as with free casting a kicker spell, you still have to pay for the kicker if you want it. It's not the biggest deal since it's just two mana extra, but it is worth noting.

[@jestercakes4340]

Yes, I’m glad someone pointed this out

[@JimPea]

I wonder what card the Prof was actually holding in the intro, a basic Plains?

[@Mrgdkat]

Idk man but he had a good grip on it

[@Wolfsspinne]

Though the very same thing!

[@rule-of-three1483]

Yeah, I couldn't figure out why he had a prop for a double-sided card that obviously wasn't....

[@RodRombauer]

Moonmist

[@zeinerperez5812]

Yes!!! Thank you professor for this video. Can’t wait to build around this commander and go hunting.

[@piralos1329]

I legit cheered when I saw that Geier Reach Bandit on the list, I love her so much! She's really good if you can keep her flipped, especially with hunt master!! I used to run them both alongside infinite mana nonsense with Temur Sabretooth - as you said, sometimes the game needs to end, and what better way than endlessly flipping a huntmaster?

[@SandboxJ]

Just getting back into Magic since the end of the 90s. This is the deck I want to build. I bought a premade deck just so I can start playing and relearning the game but a Werewolf Deck is what I really want!

[@PilotSun-rg9bh]

Love this build. I have been waiting for a great werewolf commander! Thanks Prof!

[@nashfur]

I had some extra cash to drop on a set box and I was lucky to pull a Tovolar. Building my deck as I watch haha. Thanks for another fantastic video.

[@kellysereda4961]

At time of writing, this very helpful, free information has 78K+ and 50-. Fantastic ratio, but I'm still left to wonder how 50 people could look at the effort and detail put forth and be smug enough to say "nah". Like - if you clicked on this video for what it claims to offer, you're granted a trove of info for only your time. Even Prof's tie is on point. Thanks for the vid! Wolves looking good post Crimson Vow.

[@joshuasaucedo3132]

always enjoyed your time and work in deck building

[@BoredTAK5000]

I’m so excited about the new set I’ve always wanted to make a werewolf tribal deck but I’ve never been able to

[@acapellaacapella4723]

Love this, please do more build guides!

[@forgonidon931]

I fw your channel you do Magic different than a lot of the other youtubers out there.

[@TyDukeMTG]

I just built this deck and it is my new favorite! Very spicy and I love the themes 🐺

[@tiraraymond6629]

I'm not much of a werewolf or Gruul player, but this gave me some ideas for one of my favourite decks (Grenzo, Havoc Raiser). Thank you!

[@xr9790]

I’ve always liked cards but mtg was the first one I actually played and got heavily invested into, and I just started playing when midnight hung came out (So about a year now). I love werewolves, to be fair I might be biased because It’s the first deck I ever made by myself without any kind of online guide, but it’s just a fun archetype and tovalar makes it even more fun

[@michaelpatalano9884]

This was an incredible video!!

[@thewilsonmethod7889]

As always, fantastic... thank you. Have never been into creating a werewolf deck - until the latest set. Appreciate your thoughts.

[@thordron1426]

Thank you for this video! Really appreciate your insight into my favourite tribe!

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@PurpleTentacle17]

Good work prof, as expected.

[@LadyTsunade777]

I must whole-heartedly recommend Familiar Ground, Bower Passage, Rhythm of the Wild, Druids' Repository, Sight of the Scalelords, Surge to Victory, Krosan Grip, Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkar's Expertise, Hunter's Insight, Hunter's Prowess, Wrap in Vigor, Setessan Tactics, Roar of Challenge, Predatory Focus, Insult//Injury, Breath of Fury, and Calming Verse for this deck. And for some more expensive upgrades: Gratuitous Violence, Fiery Emancipation, Descendants' Path, Seedtime, Asceticism, Dolmen Gate, Heroic Intervention. Lastly, what pack of wolves would be complete without a prey squirrel? Toski will let you double up on the card draw.

[@jamesmoore1317]

I'm avoiding spoilers because I love the joy of surprise when opening a new set but I just couldn't stay away from this one!

[@infernotitan1158]

I absolutely LOVE Spellbinder! When Chromium the Mutable originally got released I used it with Nexus of Fate as a similar effect to Savage Beating in an Esper flavor.

[@xaviesposito2485]

Great video! Thanks! Wish you can make a video for upgrade every single precon. I know everybody is doing that, but your insight is way better to me. Thank you Prof!!

[@evaman0182]

I feel like vigor would be an excellent addition to a deck that focuses so much on combat damage. It should keep your pack from dying from prolonged combat since you wont have the end of turn to remove built up damage and has the added benifit of making your swol boys even swoller

[@dorsalfin22]

Yep I've always run a Vigor in this deck

[@MultiGaither]

Dont forget moon mist is a thing too

[@evaman0182]

@@MultiGaither yeah but moon mist only prevents combat damage once, Vigor happens turn after turn. I see moon mist as only a 1 time use combat trick

[@MultiGaither]

@@evaman0182 moon mist is till end of turn

[@kennethkitchens88]

Finally!!! I loved it!!! Thank you!!!

[@docbrookeontwitch]

This looks like a fun foundation for a Werewolf deck! Thanks Prof :)

[@zanoa7]

I really love Dolmen gate in my werewolf deck aswell provides risk free attacks until its taken out which can be fun with curses like curse of predation and stalked prey

[@ArbitraryVoice]

I got an Arlinn in my sealed pool and the Day/Night stuff was so enjoyable it makes me want to build this deck!

[@joshuagoin4810]

I would love to see you do a deck tech on Old Stickfingers

[@TwistedxGamer101]

I just recently finished my Tolovar deck. It’s not cEDH as I don’t think Tolovar really can be, but it’s really good. The biggest issue is dealing with fliers but you can just swarm the board so quickly. Unnatural Growth, Rage Reflection, Rhythm of the Wild, and Xenagos make your creatures so strong. On top of having werewolves that give trample, Immerwolf, and extra turn red spells make this deck end games quick if not dealt with

[@christophsindorf7003]

I'd love to see a deck tech for new Anje! Kind regards and stay healthy \m/

[@LittleShiny]

I've had a werewolf deck for a few years and found some nice utility in cards like vexing shusher and prowling serpopard just to stop some untimely counters

[@RMROB14]

I know you mentioned in a previous episode that you were planning to make a modern deck with svyelun. I personally play EDH 95% of the time and have been really excited to build svyelun and would love to see a deck tech on that.

[@macfryling8421]

Guess its time to update my favorite tribal deck then. Could not be more happy about this!

[@raphaellebrun3547]

Cool deck tech ! Heroic Intervention could also have its place here with all these big creatures to protect

[@elixirpunk4567]

I'd LOVE to see some updated Vampire EDH decks, one using blood tokens (possibly using the new vamp precon commander), and one without (ideally using Olivia Voldaren as the commander)!! .....preferably a budget within $300-500 hehe

[@Woodsy2575]

I love werewolf cards and I used to play Xenagos as the commander when Shadows/Eldritch Moon released. The deck wasn't synergistic enough for my liking so I took it apart but I will definitely be rallying the pack once set drops

[@BozzLightyr]

Gives me nostalgia to your classic tribal vids like the gisa and geralf one or the goblin highlander vid (first vid of yours I ever saw)

[@femtohimself71]

I'm new to Magic and I just pulled Tovolar on Halloween night! how fitting ! I was excited to get him but i didn't realize he was this good!

[@Marcharig]

Thank you for this quality video oh great professor

[@danielb9274]

Cannot wait for this set! Thanks Professor!

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Me neither

[@Mr_Landfall_MTG]

Was hoping you were going to do a deck tech for this that we could look at but this video will have to suffice as a good backbone for ideas.

[@SafePondDemon]

I'm gonna have to rewatch it to build my take on this deck

[@matthewpatton9221]

Arena lacks a bunch of those spicier options, but I definitely took some inspiration from this video for my new Tovolar Historic Brawl deck. I'm testing, "Moraug, "Fury of Akoum," for extra combat phases with extra landfall/turn triggers. I must not understand the text correctly; I can only get it to work on the second main phase and only once/turn. "Whenever a land ETB under your control, if it's your main phase, there's an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control." Why don't additional phases stack if I play a fetch land first main? I get that I can't use my normal combat phase unless I have some vigilance or a way to untap during or post additional phase. I think... Shouldn't that let me take 2 additional phases, then maybe swing in with a vigilant dude for main combat, draw a bunch of cards, and ideally play some more land second main and attack a couple more times? It's pretty hard to have all of that going at the same time to test. I couldn't get any vigilant creatures going in that 1/100+ game where I had him and Druid Class at the same time. Might get replaced by a trample anthem or add the 4/1 human for 3 that can exert for an additional combat. Then Moraug could help untap him for the next turn.

[@VydeoGramesJunk]

Professor: "We are dealing a metric ton of damage" Me: "No professor, we are dealing a metric fuckton of damage"

[@deadnthehead4557]

I LOVE THE WEREWOLF DECK!! It's just cool having a pack of werewolves to unleash! Now if only I could find someone using a vampire only deck. I could finally live out my fantasy to reenact Underworld: Rise of the Lycans!!!😂🤩

[@skywatch3r987]

I'm literally in the process of learning with the werewolf deck and played with a guy last night who had the vampire deck so me being a beginner not knowing wtf I was doing I knew I was screwed

[@trysten9198]

I have this deck and I still haven't beaten my buddies vampire deck it's absolute bullshit

[@darthdrow5120]

Can’t wait to build this deck

[@ybabts]

Something to note here with Vildin-pack Alpha and Moonmist, they cannot transform cards with Daybound/Nightbound on them. It will literally do nothing because of how daybound nightbound works in the game rules. But at least half of your cards will still work with it with the old transform text. Also something to note is that Day/Night only checks if the active player (the person who's turn it is) has casted two or more or no spells. If that player didn't cast spells and it was day, it will turn night regardless of what other players do on that player's turn. This also means that in some awkward situations that your Daybound/Nightbound werewolves with Tovolar will transform because it turns night, but another player casted a spell on that player's turn so it won't transform the werewolves with the old text because they don't care who casted the spell, and then because it's not day Tovolar won't transform your old text werewolves on your upkeep.

[@LordDuddy77]

Please tell me you got more A Guide to EDH videos coming soon. Love your commander content and im sure sometime soon, you'll get couple wins on camera..im rooting for you Prof!

[@1stravis]

Super excited for this new commander! However, I have a sinking feeling with this much hype all these cards are going shoot way up in price

[@coirevosika1623]

Thankfully I've been playing werewolves since they released in original Innistrad and have been preping for a werewolf commander deck ever since.

[@sgtfigg1]

Og werewolf players don't gotta worry about it 😎 I've waited YEARS this is the time 😭💀

[@jordan198301]

Most of these cards are already sold out on card Kingdom

[@Gay4MapleSyrup]

I didn’t know that spell binder is an equipment that exists. It is perfect for my kinds of combat decks. Ty for introducing me to this card professor.

[@jamesmoore1317]

Card is going to jump in price now lol

[@Gay4MapleSyrup]

@@jamesmoore1317 just picked up 4 for super cheap from my lgs. I hope they jump in price now

[@GoAstros123]

Ever thought about doing a Kenrith alternate wincon deck? Kenrith can pump up infect creatures, help fuel Mayael's Aria, and while Tainted Remedy isn't an alterante wincon, it can be used in Kenrith.

[@AKitchell]

Hands down, I want to see a very good Chatterfang, Squirrel General EDH deck tech. Squirrel Tribal and lots of token generating, with a bit of sacrifice benefits to weed out all the non-Squirrel tokens, as well as some target land destruction (not mass land, that's too mean). That's my idea.

[@francoispaolantonacci2280]

Great add to my werewolf deck !

[@Tachonka_Bonka719]

I just built a standard werewolf deck it’s absolutely insane how much damage these guys do, my only issue was one game I just couldn’t get green mana for whatever reason, hoping to fix that with rockfall vale here soon

[@nailinmalin1719]

I can't believe I'll finally be getting a good wearwolf commander. I have waited so, so very long for this day

[@AKitchell]

I'd also like to see a take on Niv-Mizzet, Parun, but more centered around burn/ping and card draw (along with a few dragons) instead of control, with the entire deck mainly centered around Dragon's Approach. I'm working on said deck as we speak, and I hope it works out.