Ravening Warg
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An efficient two-drop whose deathtouch keeps larger creatures from blocking profitably, while Ferocious provides useful life gain in races. It is a strong common for BG Wolves / Ferocious but remains playable without consistently enabling the trigger.
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Gameplay notes
Establish a 4-power creature before declaring attackers, since Ferocious is checked when Ravening Warg attacks. Its deathtouch often makes attacking worthwhile even into larger blockers, but preserve it when its repeated life gain is important to winning a race.
Key synergies
Mirkwood permanently turns Ravening Warg from a 2/2 into a 4/4, allowing the Warg itself to satisfy Ferocious and gain life whenever it attacks.
Ravening Warg is a cheap Wolf that helps satisfy the Company's requirement to control two other Wolves. In return, the 5-power Company immediately enables Ravening Warg's Ferocious life-gain trigger and produces additional Wolves.
The counters make Ravening Warg a 4/4, turning on its own Ferocious trigger, while deathtouch lets its fight damage kill creatures of any size and the toughness boost improves its chance of surviving.
Activating Desolation Prowler before attacking turns on Ravening Warg's Ferocious trigger, and the 2 life gained exactly offsets the Prowler's activation cost.
Making Duskwatch Hunter a 4/2 turns on Ravening Warg's attack trigger, allowing the aggressive Wolf deck to gain life while racing.
Head of the Hunt's 4 power enables Ravening Warg's Ferocious trigger, and Ravening Warg's deathtouch encourages profitable combat trades that Head replaces with 2/2 Wolf tokens.
Equipping Ravening Warg makes it a 4/3 deathtouch creature, allowing it to enable its own Ferocious trigger while becoming extremely difficult to block profitably.
Pumping Ravening Warg before declaring attackers makes it a 4-power creature and turns on its Ferocious trigger; deathtouch plus the temporary size also makes blocking it especially difficult.
Dreaded Bat-Cloud's 4 power turns on Ravening Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, and its discounted cost can establish that 4-power creature much earlier than a normal five-drop.
Galion continuously enables Ravening Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, and can simultaneously turn the attacking deathtouch Warg into a base 4/4, making it difficult to block profitably while gaining 2 life.
Glóin supplies the 4-power creature Ravening Warg needs for Ferocious, allowing its attacks to gain life and improve aggressive race situations.
Both Wolves reward the same Ferocious attack condition, and Ravening Warg's 2 life gained each combat more than offsets the 1 life lost when The Chief Warg draws a card.
The Spider keeps Ferocious active so Ravening Warg gains 2 life whenever it attacks, helping a midrange deck stabilize while its large threats close the game.
Both Wolves reward the same Ferocious attack, with Ravening Warg gaining life while Scrounger permanently grows the team. Scrounger's first trigger also turns itself into a persistent 4-power enabler for both cards.
Crewing the Boat before attacking supplies the 4-power creature Ravening Warg needs for Ferocious, letting the Warg gain 2 life while the Boat attacks and recruits.
When Ferocious is active, equipping Ravening Warg makes its attack ability trigger twice, gaining 4 life per attack instead of 2. Doubled prowess can also help another creature reach 4 power before combat.
Beorn's 6/6 body keeps Ferocious active, allowing Ravening Warg to gain 2 life whenever it attacks.