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Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge

Legendary Creature — Human Werewolf // Legendary Creature — Werewolf · {1}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Whenever a Wolf or Werewolf you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more Wolves and/or Werewolves, it becomes night. Then transform any number of Human Werewolves you control. Daybound Whenever a Wolf or Werewolf you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. {X}{R}{G}: Target Wolf or Werewolf you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Nightbound

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What Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 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 · deals_damageWhenever a Wolf or Werewolf you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more Wolves and/or Werewolves, it becomes night. Then transform any number of Human Werewolves you control.
• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever a Wolf or Werewolf you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
• Activated ability{X}{R}{G}: Target Wolf or Werewolf you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
• Keyword · daybounddaybound
• Keyword · nightboundnightbound

What a Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge deck needs

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

• human/werewolf/wolf creatures (its text counts them)
• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)

The Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge deck plan

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

• 13× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 28× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 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
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

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