Mayor of Avabruck will always be a valuable card, as it's
the first and currently only lord of THREE
popular tribes-- Humans, Wolves, and Werewolves.
Better yet, because all Werewolves have the same
transform trigger, you almost never have to
worry about it being "out of sync" with the
creatures it's supposed to be granting its bonus
too. Sure, the Wolf tokens it generates never
transform into anything, and in a straight Human
deck where the Mayor is the only double-faced
card, there'll be awkward moments. But Humans
don't currently have any other lord, so it's the
Mayor or the Highway for them, really.
But even when the Mayor is rampaging across the
moors and failing to lead his Human township,
he's making up for it by generating Wolf tokens
he can lead. I'd love to see a deck around this
guy and Master of the Wild Hunt.
Back in the era of Lorwyn, one member of my
playgroup had a "two tribes" beatdown deck,
which used tribal synergies for Kithkin and
Soldiers. Mayor of Avabruck reminds me a little
of that era - since all werewolves are human in
the "daytime," he acts as a very efficient lord
at all times. Unfortunately, since other human
tribal cards don't go the other way and look at
werewolves, the Mayor is somewhat pigeonholed as
a werewolf deck card. Still, he's fairly good at
what he does, seeing as he synergizes with
Immerwolf and he brings along more minions to
inflate and beat down. You can't ask for much
more than that.
Welcome back readers it’s hard to articulate my
love for this card benefitting both human tribal
and being a lynchpin in any competent werewolf
deck Mayor of Avabruck comes out early and left
unanswered can truly dominate the game. In
standard werewolves see a small amount of play
making this a key card there has been instances
where this card has seen play in RUG style decks
with counterspell back up and just efficient
threats and burn spells making this a versatile
card as well as a key card in werewolf decks. In
extended and modern this creature is still
powerful pumping out tokens at a fast rate and
presenting a must deal with threat. In legacy
and vintage this card is kind of outclassed by
all the power things players can do in the
format making this an interesting if not
competitive choice for the format. In casual
werewolves have a lot of support from the new
set and a tribal focus could be quite powerful.
In multiplayer I have experimented with
werewolves and an early Mayor of Avabruck
wreaks havoc on the board as you can soon pump
out an army opponents can’t deal with in a
timely fashion and werewolves as a whole are
powerful once flipped but getting to that point
is trouble Moonmist and Isochron Scepter is
pretty nifty as is Immerwolf. In limited this is
a bomb if I ever seen one either built around or
just splashed into a deck this card is powerful.
Overall a powerful card that I love casually and
competitively.
Today's card of the day is Mayor of Avabruck
which is a two mana Green
1/1 that gives other humans you control +1/+1
and can transform into Howlpack Alpha which is a
3/3 that gives your other werewolf and wolf
creatures +1/+1 and puts a 2/2 wolf token into
play at your end step.
This is an excellent lord for werewolf decks as
it powers them up in either form and has a very
low casting cost for a lord as well. The
addition of tokens that it can strengthen is a
strong bonus and overall any deck with a
werewolf theme should run four of these, though
multicolor human decks can easily add him as
well.
For Limited this is a great first pick as unlike
many lords that only have a small number of
cards they can impact, humans make up a very
large portion of the current sets. In
Sealed or Booster it should not be passed over
as even a small number of Green cards with this
splashed into a deck should be beneficial.
A Green/Red werewolf deck in particular works
very well, but anything with humans is an
effective build.
Welcome to the
Pojo.com card of the day section. Today we close
out our week looking at Mayor of Avabruck from
Innistrad. Mayor of Avabruck is a rare green
creature human advisor werewolf that costs one
generic and one green mana for a 1/1. Mayor of
Avabruck gives other humans you control +1/+1.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells
were cast last turn, transform Mayor of Avabruck
into Howlpack Alpha. Howlpack Alpha is a 3/3
Werewolf that gives other wolf and werewolf
creatures you control +1/+1. At the beginning of
the end step, you put a 2/2 Wolf onto the
battlefield.
I love the Mayor of Avabruck. He is simply so
amazing in a wolf or werewolf deck that it is
ridiculous. Whether your wolves are transforming
or not, this guy gives them a pump. And once
transformed, you begin dropping out more wolves.
When combined with Immerwolf, it becomes truly
scary what you will be able to accomplish with a
single Mayor of Avabruck. Now imagine if you
have more than one.
