Werewolf Aggro (FNM, Standard)

also the geier reach bandits should basically never come out of your deck. was looking at your sideboard notes.

Thanks for the feedback! You're 100% right without CoCo this deck is an FNM deck, I don't mind that though as I don't have time to go to tournaments (Filthy Casual) But I'll relabel it when I get home to avoid confusion. I'll look at restructuring the Deck/Notes based on your feedback then too, I was thinking of running +2 Atarka's Command, +1 Howlpack, and +1 Incendiary Flow over the 4 Galvanic Bombardments, from my play testing they are a 4 or 0 of. If I did that I'd probably take the Incendiary and Howlpack from the side as 4 of those was always painful to hit, and put in maybe 2 Rending Volley.

The rending volley would be a nice addition especially with all the UW stuff around. But yes galvanic bombardment isn't the best as a shock. Also I forgot about Kalitas, how do you fair against the grindier matches?

Updated the list finally, had a play around with Spirit of the Hunt while thinking about the grindier matches, let me know what you think!

I've always experienced silverfur being too slow for an aggro werewolves deck, he's in the line-up for my midrange version of this deck (I'm just working on a few cards there before I'm happy to make it public). How do you find he plays out, and in what numbers? I'm curious because he can definitely flood the board I just haven't had success with him. I am rather novice at Magic so if there is I high chance I could be missing something obvious with him.

Well, you don't need Silverfur but he can be a great build around, if you use fight spells, multi target things for removal, etc.

Also forgot to mention Ulrich Krallenhorde, if he had been around back then, along with Bandit, that would have made Werewolves tier 1 back then. But today there is just not enough around Bandit, Ulrich(Birds, 1 Cmc mana creatures, that can drop on turn 1, to get 3 Cmc werewolves out on turn 2, Moonmist, Full Moon's Rise, Rangers Guile, etc). Also Ulrich needed to be 4 cmc, and is to slow at 5 cmc. The reason why Wolfir Silverheart was ok at 5 cmc, was because he didn't transform, and could soul bond pair up with a creature to give permanent + 4 bonus.

Not only will Ulrich not come out until turn 3 at best, 4 average if use mana creatures, turn 5 on average without mana creatures, but by turn 5 is slightly just barely undersized at 4/4, and won't flip, attack as a 6/6 until turn 7, pretty much after the game should already be done, over. And that's turns 5,6,7 at the fastest that get to get it out, flip it, attack with it, etc. That means that most of the time you don't get him out flipped, attacking until turns 7,8,9.

Also another thing I forgot to mention, is that altho Bandit makes Werewolves come into play flipped, they can still be flipped back without Immerwolf.

Mainly just replying to acknowledge your comments, I honestly have no idea where to begin on implementing them, I don't have regular access to Modern competition locally, and MTGO doesn't have the same appeal to me since I kinda like the paper physicality to everything (working in IT and all), so I'm just left with the small local scene. From what I'm gathering the main things I can take away from this are:
1. Ulrich is too slow for his cost, use those 2 slots for something lower on the curve.
2. Even if I threw in CoCo, Werewolves lacks the support of top tier decks so brewing it is pointless for standard.
Honestly I don't want to be rude, especially after the time you took to comment, I only started playing in SOI so I'm not going to act like I know anything about Modern, but the barrier to entry makes comparison hard personally, due to the large difference in power levels, focus in ramp options and my lack of experience in those formats and cards.

Sorry if any of that came out wrong, I'm rather new to brewing stuff up, which I must admit I do sort of Ironchef for flavour > power, this is only my second deck and I'm still learning so again I appreciate your time and thank you for any further clarification you provide.

No offense taken, and hopefully no offense given, since you said you didn't want to be rude.
Only reason why I mentioned Modern Format, was to say that the only way to make Werewolves a tier 1, 1.5, deck, was to make it a Modern Format deck. That SO FAR the current standard block, doesn't have good enough Werewolf cards, Werewolf supporting cards, to make it a current standard tier 1, 1.5 deck. But maybe that will change in the next set, before Werewolf cycles out of standard again.

And as far as comparisons go, I wasn't comparing your deck specifically, or current standard werewolves, to Modern Format. I was comparing current standard werewolves, to the INNISTRAD, DARK ASCENSION past standard block sets, werewolves, back when they used to be standard legal. So it was a equal comparison, because comparing new standard block, to a old cycled out, no longer standard, standard block. The point of the comparison, was to say, show that as it stands now, the current standard block werewolves don't seem to be, are probably not tier 1, 1.5.

As for Ulrich, he is not to slow, IF, IF, he has good enough help, support, Birds, Atarka Commands. He is going to be awesome in Modern Format, and EDH Commander, and ike Huntmaster is, would be good in any deck, whether werewolf, or some other deck, as long as has the right, good enough help, support, acceleration, etc, cards built around him.. Also Geir Reach Bandits is going to also be awesome in a Modern Format Werewolf deck. Also like I said maybe Bandit, Ulrich, will be good before they cycle out, if they get help in the next set.

Also depends on your situation, as to whether it's pointless to make a Werewolf deck. If you just want to play casual, kitchen table, or weak fielded FNM's, then that's great, make a standard format Werewolf deck. But if you even want to make, play a standard format Werewolf deck at a STRONG FNM TOURNAMENT, then maybe, maybe not , unless you like to lose a lot, lose at least 53 to 63% of your games, finish 9th to 17th place, at best, if a good player, to 13th to 23rd place if not a good player, outside the prize pool, outside even the cheap freebie prize promo card given to 13th to 19th place finishers, out of 39 to 59 players.

Also another reason I mentioned this, is that some base their decision on the thought that FNM's, Friday Night Magic semi tournaments are weak. Heck even another commenter on your deck page, said FNM is weak, and that because of that it's ok to play this deck at FNM, but not at tournaments, city, convention, states, ptq, Grand Prix tournaments.

That can be true, you could enter a very weak FNM and do well. But you could just as easily enter a stronger FNM and do bad. Like I said FNM Friday Night Magic semi tournaments, at local game stores, can be weak, can be very strong filled with hard core, competitive, strong, good players, but not good enough to play in other tournaments, unless they choose not to, like beating weaker competition, consistently finish 1st, win a LOT of free booster packs, can't travel to better tournaments, no better tournaments around, don't have the money, card collection, actual playing skill (best deck builder, but bad, non skilled player), etc.

So casual, kitchen table, weaker FNM'S, with this deck, great, stronger FNM's, tournaments, city, state, otq, Grand prix, not great.

Also question for you, since I am not always good at card nicknames, What card is Coco? I doubt that there is a card named Coco, and whether there is or not, I doubt that it would make a standard Werewolf deck tier 1

Collected Company. 3G instant, look at top 6 cards of your library, put (up to) 2 creatures with cmc 3 or less onto the battlefield.

Hmmm, that is awesome. It does make almost any lower cmc, creature deck, whether standard, Modern, EDH, Commander, whether werewolves, other creatures, almost all, better. I don't think it makes standard werewolves, tier 1, tier 1.5, maybe tier 2, to tier 2.5. The only problem I see with this is most werewolves, are 3, 4,5 cmc, and most of the worse werewolves are 1,2,3 cmc. But that's in standard. Because of that, either going to get out a bunch of bad, lower cmc werewolves. Even if use it to get out Bandit, getting more then 1 out, would be redundant, as only need 1 out. And since Coco is 4 cmc, it's likely not going to come out until turns 3,4 at fastest, and Bandit can come out by turn 2, with Birds, turn 3,4 without Birds, which is before, same time as Coco. And if playing a deck with a LOT of 3 cmc's, they will probably come out, before, same time as Coco, so altho Coco will help, it won't help as good as it could in Standard Werewolves. Where Coco probably likely shines, is in locating 3 cmc Combo piece creatures.

Now in Modern Coco could get out on turn 2 at best, turn 3,4 and could get out werewolves, wolves like Bandit, outlaw, Ranger, Immerwolf, and can also be copied, to get 4, 3 Cmc werewolves, wolves out.

Hmmm, 3 slots to run either Coco, or Chord. Chord will only get me 2 creatures, if copied, vs Coco's 4, but Chord of Calling can get me Any Cmc creatures out, and not just 3 Cmc like Coco, but Chord also makes me tap creatures down, because of Convoke mechanic, where with Coco, I don't have to pay for Coco, by tapping creatures.

Hmm let's see, I have about 8, 2,3 cmc creatures, and about 8, 4,5 cmc creatures, and 2, 6 cmc's, and 4, 1 cmc's. Hmm wish I had 4 slots, so that could go 2 Coco, 2 chords, so if have to run 3 of 1 or the other, I guess I will run Chord, so that can fetch Huntmaster, Instigator Gang, Restoration Angel, Zealous Conscripts, Wolfir Silverheart, Ulrich, etc, out of 2 decks of mine, 1 a Modern GRW, extremely small splash blue, Naya deck, and the other GR extremely small splash blue Modern werewolves.

Well thanks for telling me what Coco is, does.

After looking the card up, think I will go for Chord over Coco, because Coco could make me discard a lot of good cards to the bottom of library, where won't draw, get them out.

If you have played with Collected Company before you really don't care if you hit spells and lands as long as you hit two decent creatures.

But if you get a bad draw and don't hit even 1 creature, let alone 2, or the 2 creatures hit are 4 cmc, not 3 cmc or the 6 cards goes to bottom of your library and you likely don't get to play those cards, because you won't draw them, and if they are cards you might need, that's worse. Basically Coco, is rolling the dice, gambling to put 3 cmc creatures into play faster, and if that happens you win the dice roll, gamble, if it doesnt, you lose the gamble, diceroll.

Certainly you can stack the odds in your favor, but it's still a diceroll, gamble. Chord is more consistent, automatic. It's not a gamble. I prefer the sure thing in Chord, over the gamble that is Coco.

Also that O ring, or Go for the throat, or Supreme Verdict, etc that you lost to Coco, in order to get 2 3 cmc creatures out, could save your ass if you had it, could lose you the game, because you lost it to Coco.

I do agree that your deck does not have enough creatures to be playing coco, because your other spells are relevant.

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