Wolverine, Best There Is

Gameplan

Wolverine is a Gruul Voltron beater that snowballs out of control: double all his combat damage, smash face, and pile on +1/+1 counters whenever he bloodies a creature. You ramp early, suit him up with trample and fight/ping effects to trigger his end-step growth, and kill the table with doubled commander-damage swings while regeneration keeps him alive through removal-by-damage and blocks.

Key Cards

• Rancor — Repeatable trample that keeps coming back, ensuring doubled damage gets through and connects for commander damage.
• Fireshrieker — Double strike effectively quadruples his damage with the doubling, and guarantees a creature-damage trigger every combat.
• Embercleave — Cheap to cast in aggressive Gruul, granting double strike and a huge buff for an explosive doubled-damage kill.
• Berserk — Doubles power and forces lethal trample swings; with Wolverine's doubling it deals absurd damage and regeneration ignores the end-of-turn destruction.
• Stinging Study — Card draw tied to his ever-growing mana value/power so the counter snowball refills your hand.
• Domri, Anarch of Bolas — Repeatable fight gives a guaranteed creature-damage trigger each turn for the +1/+1 counter while removing blockers.

Upgrade Path

Lean harder into low-curve protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots) so a single removal spell doesn't reset your investment, and add double strike plus trample staples (Fireshrieker, Embercleave, Rancor) to maximize the damage doubling. Tighten the ramp suite (Sol Ring, Birds of Paradise, Cultivate) to deploy and re-arm Wolverine fast, and include extra-combat or haste enablers like Aggravated Assault and Fervor for explosive, hard-to-interact-with kills.