The Chief Warg
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Three-mana 3/3 menace signpost that draws a card (for 1 life) every time you attack with a 4-power creature around. The BG engine: keep one big body and every combat replaces itself.
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Gameplay notes
The trigger checks Ferocious when YOU attack with anything — the Warg doesn't have to attack itself... but it does have to be an attack. Aggression is the card-advantage engine here.
Key synergies
The 5/3 Company permanently satisfies Ferocious, and its Wolf tokens let it attack — every combat now draws a card.
Activating Desolation Prowler before attacking gives you a 4-power creature, enabling The Chief Warg's attack trigger to draw a card even when your board contains no naturally large creature.
Galion naturally satisfies The Chief Warg's Ferocious condition, so attacking with both immediately starts producing cards; Galion can also turn another small attacker into a 4/4 to increase pressure.
Pathmaker reaches 4 power as soon as you control four lands, reliably turning on The Chief Warg's attack trigger so it can draw cards without requiring a pump spell.
A single landfall counter raises The Chief Warg from 3 power to 4, allowing it to satisfy its own Ferocious condition and draw a card whenever you attack.
Head of the Hunt's 4 power turns on The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, while the extra Wolf tokens help maintain a wide board that can attack and exploit the resulting card draw.
Old Fat Spider permanently satisfies The Chief Warg's power-4 Ferocious condition, allowing attacks to generate cards while presenting a second large threat that is awkward to remove.
Duskwatch Hunter can make itself a 4/2 on entry, immediately satisfying The Chief Warg's Ferocious condition so attacks begin drawing cards.
Gollum's 4 power reliably turns on The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, letting the menace attackers pressure the opponent while generating a card each combat.
Ordinary Bear reliably satisfies The Chief Warg's Ferocious condition, allowing each attack to draw a card while the Bear provides a sturdy attacker or blocker.
The pump mode turns The Chief Warg from 3 power into 5 power before combat, enabling its own Ferocious trigger to draw a card when you attack.
Putting the counter on The Chief Warg makes it a 4/4, allowing it to enable its own Ferocious attack trigger on future turns; hexproof can also save this central card from removal.
Bejeweled Warg can become a 4/3 after its first hit, enabling The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger so subsequent attacks draw cards.
Casting Large Bear before combat turns on Ferocious immediately, allowing The Chief Warg's attack trigger to draw a card that same turn.
Seek the Heart can tutor The Chief Warg because it is legendary, and the Arkenstone's anthem then raises the Warg to 4/4 so it enables its own Ferocious attacks.
Mirkwood's activated ability can put two +1/+1 counters on The Chief Warg because it is a Wolf, making it a 5/5 that permanently enables its own Ferocious attack trigger.
Equipping the inexpensive Spatula raises The Chief Warg to 4 power, letting it satisfy its own Ferocious condition while the life gain helps offset life lost to repeated card draws.
Once crewed, Great Gilded Boat is a 4-power attacker that enables The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, so each attack produces both the Boat's recruit and the Warg's extra card.
Beorn's 6 power means the Warg's Ferocious attack trigger — draw a card per attack — is always on.
A 5/5 that also draws cards keeps Ferocious on while stacking a second draw engine in the same colors.
Both trigger from the same Ferocious attack: Puppyyyy grows the entire board while The Chief Warg draws a card. Puppyyyy's first counter also raises both creatures to 4 power, making future Ferocious attacks much easier to sustain.
Equipping The Chief Warg makes its Ferocious attack ability trigger an additional time, so each enabled attack draws two cards instead of one, at the cost of 2 life.
Beorn's 5 power reliably turns on The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger, letting attacks draw a card while presenting two substantial threats.
The Bear permanently satisfies The Chief Warg's Ferocious condition, so attacks generate cards while the hasty 10/7 applies immediate pressure.
The two counters turn The Chief Warg into a 5/5 that survives many fights and satisfies its own Ferocious condition, allowing the following attack to draw a card.
Misty Mountains Raider's natural 4 power turns on The Chief Warg's ferocious attack trigger, and attacking to draw a card also triggers the Raider to amass Goblins 2.
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.
Dwarven Mattock makes The Chief Warg a 5/5, permanently turning on its own Ferocious trigger, while ward 1 makes the resulting card-draw engine harder to remove.
By returning another permanent when it enters, Mirkwood Nurturer becomes a 4/3 and immediately supplies the 4-power creature needed for The Chief Warg's Ferocious trigger.
Crude Bent Blade removes an opposing creature and then gives The Chief Warg +2/+1, turning it into a 5-power creature that enables its own Ferocious trigger.
Each ferocious attack draws a card and makes you lose 1 life, which the Master converts into self-mill; the repeated self-mill helps reach seven cards for the Master's death trigger.
Cantankerous Keepers is a naturally 4-power body that keeps The Chief Warg's Ferocious attack trigger active while adding another substantial attacker.
The creature half is a 4/4 in black, giving The Chief Warg a durable Ferocious enabler once cast; the Adventure can provide an earlier board presence while waiting to deploy it.