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Chief of the Wilds

Legendary Creature — Wolf · {2}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Menace Whenever another Wolf you control enters, put two +1/+1 counters on Chief of the Wilds. If a triggered ability of another Wolf or battle you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

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What Chief of the Wilds actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhenever another Wolf you control enters, put two +1/+1 counters on Chief of the Wilds.
• Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a triggered ability of another Wolf or battle you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Chief of the Wilds deck needs

Plays as trigger doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• permanents with triggered abilities the doubler can multiply
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• wolf creatures (its text counts them)

The Chief of the Wilds deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 6× A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Chief of the Wilds

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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