Hobbit Precon - No Ordinary Wolves
deck Chief of the Wilds
Aug 13, 2026
"Not all [Sauron's] servants and chattels are wraiths! There are orcs and trolls, there are wargs and werewolves" (Gandalf; FR, "Many Meetings")
Though I wish it were in Jund, I am in love with the Chief of the Wilds and it meets all my needs for a great wolf deck. I had initially done this is euros and at 150€ I had originally had parallel lives and doubling season, as I think they would benefit greatly from a precon reprint, and support a lot of the weakness wolves have without red involved, but swapped it out for branching evolution and hardened scales to match more of the dollar amount (reading $153 on arkidect). I also considered sphere grid but I think there should be an in universe version of that.
The Chief Warg is a nice alternative commander as a lot of the deck does also mix well with ferocious (and until battle of five armies, Chief of the wilds is going to be expensive).
I wanted to focus on theme for how intelligent and cruel the wargs are and leant into a lot of appropriate cards, such as cover of darkness and lurking predators, to really give the impression of the wargs ambushing the good guys in the forests.
