Daily Card Redesign #36: Lone Wolf

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development, and I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

Apparently, lone wolves is a thing, as you can tell from the expression that people use "lone wolf." Wolves are either part of a pack and hunt together or they go solo and forage for things they can manage to hunt by themselves. Lone wolves, as a result, tend to be more vicious than their pack counterparts. I initially went to do this design to show off the decision a wolf makes in whether it becomes a Lone Wolf:

Wolves are normally 2/2, so I put it at those stats. The +1/+1 counter does two things: toughens it up to represent how tough lone wolves are; and 2) keeps track of whether or not the player has decided for it to "become a lone wolf."

However, this card appeared in the set Portal Second Age. This was a starter product for new Magic: The Gathering players; and, as such, had a lot of the more complex parts of Magic just left out. A search across all the Portal products didn't show a single card that used +1/+1 counters. As such, I needed to scrap the above idea, even though it's pretty cool on its own, I think.

So, here's the actual redesign:

I tried to follow the odd Portal wording. And boldness. ...font-wise.