Sure, grind the spectre.

~SE++

Pack 1:

Hydra Omnivore
Brago's Favor
Howling Wolf
Howling Wolf
Gnarlid Pack
Worldknit
Elvish Aberration
Enclave Elite
Howling Wolf
Charging Rhino
Warmonger's Chariot
Sporecap Spider
Relic Crush
Cogwork Spy
Scaled Wurm

Pack 2:

Pernicious Deed
Deathreap Ritual
Aether Searcher (Woodvine Elemental)
Woodvine Elemental
Howling Wolf
Echoing Courage
Stasis Cell
Breakthrough
Howling Wolf
Brago's Favor
Guardian Zendikon
Lurking Automaton (11/11)
Cogwork Spy (Grixis Illusionist)
Altar's Reap
Mana Geyser

Pack 3:

Council's Judgment
Marchesa's Smuggler
Backup Plan
Cogwork Grinder
Fireshrieker
Soulcatcher (Cogwork Grinder)
Flowstone Blade (Cogwork Grinder)
Twisted Abomination (Cogwork Grinder)
Reito Lantern
Liliana's Specter (Cogwork Grinder)

Next...

Barbed Shocker
Power of Fire
Turn the Tide
Howling Wolf
Wrap in Flames

grind the shocker


...

Sure, grind shocker. If we get the stupid thing to 9 it will have been potentially worth it, though I still think 4 removal-resistant flying power would have been a good idea.

take the Wolf. Once we cast one we can take the rest out of the deck, so it barely counts as putting a card in there.
An unending stream of decent-sized critters that we can recur for the lantern can keep us safe for pretty much the entire game.

Howling Wolf

~SE++

The difference between 5 and 6 wolves is pretty marginal, especially after picking cards like Lantern and Grinder. Taking another wont make the other ones much better, so I rather make another of our cards better.

Grind Shocker.

Not sure. We are getting to the point where we will almost always have a wolf in starting hand.

If we grind even one more card, we'll be at 36 nonlands in the deck. -- about the same as a constructed deck. If we grind as many as possible (nine), we'll be at 32 and likely run a final deck in the neighborhood of 54 cards. I'd feel comfortable in getting at least one howling wolf to start the chain with 5 in our library. It's the reito lantern I'm worried about.

Pack 1:

Hydra Omnivore
Brago's Favor
Howling Wolf
Howling Wolf
Gnarlid Pack
Worldknit
Elvish Aberration
Enclave Elite
Howling Wolf
Charging Rhino
Warmonger's Chariot
Sporecap Spider
Relic Crush
Cogwork Spy
Scaled Wurm

Pack 2:

Pernicious Deed
Deathreap Ritual
Aether Searcher (Woodvine Elemental)
Woodvine Elemental
Howling Wolf
Echoing Courage
Stasis Cell
Breakthrough
Howling Wolf
Brago's Favor
Guardian Zendikon
Lurking Automaton (11/11)
Cogwork Spy (Grixis Illusionist)
Altar's Reap
Mana Geyser

Pack 3:

Council's Judgment
Marchesa's Smuggler
Backup Plan
Cogwork Grinder
Fireshrieker
Soulcatcher (Cogwork Grinder)
Flowstone Blade (Cogwork Grinder)
Twisted Abomination (Cogwork Grinder)
Reito Lantern
Liliana's Specter (Cogwork Grinder)
Barbed Shocker (Cogwork Grinder)

Next...

Warmonger's Chariot
Orcish Cannonade
Stave Off
Cinder Wall

Next...

Spontaneous combustion
Wrap in Vigor
Enraged Revolutionary

Next...

Valor Made Real
Necromantic Thirst

And finally...

Whispergear Sneak

Grind the chariot, Combustion, valor, and sneak

Grind chariot
Take combustion
grind valor and sneak

grind the chariot, grind combustion b/c we're play wolves.dec, grind valor, grind sneak

+1

~SE++

Pack 1:

Hydra Omnivore
Brago's Favor
Howling Wolf
Howling Wolf
Gnarlid Pack
Worldknit
Elvish Aberration
Enclave Elite
Howling Wolf
Charging Rhino
Warmonger's Chariot
Sporecap Spider
Relic Crush
Cogwork Spy
Scaled Wurm

Pack 2:

Pernicious Deed
Deathreap Ritual
Aether Searcher (Woodvine Elemental)
Woodvine Elemental
Howling Wolf
Echoing Courage
Stasis Cell
Breakthrough
Howling Wolf
Brago's Favor
Guardian Zendikon
Lurking Automaton (11/11)
Cogwork Spy (Grixis Illusionist)
Altar's Reap
Mana Geyser

Pack 3:

Council's Judgment
Marchesa's Smuggler
Backup Plan
Cogwork Grinder
Fireshrieker
Soulcatcher (Cogwork Grinder)
Flowstone Blade (Cogwork Grinder)
Twisted Abomination (Cogwork Grinder)
Reito Lantern
Liliana's Specter (Cogwork Grinder)
Barbed Shocker (Cogwork Grinder)
Warmonger's Chariot (Cogwork Grinder)
Spontaneous Combustion (Cogwork Grinder)
Valor Made Real (Cogwork Grinder)
Whispergear Sneak (Cogwork Grinder)

Well, 'deckbuilding' is trivial here: use the worldknit and all cards Based on what came around, I rather wish we had taken the glasskite, since we don't really have a good means of ending the game in our entire deck: the smuggler, maybe, with one of our big idiots (Lurker, Grinder, Searcher, or Wurm -- not a great count when they don't innately evade) so we'd have to play very smart when it comes to the table: we need to protect our assets, avoid overextending into removal, watch for Dream Fracture, and let the other players do our dirty work for the vast majority of the game. Not having the glasskite, I wish we'd ground the fireshrieker. Without good evasion, it's kinda cruddy. Double strike wolves still trade at best with worthwhile creatures. We've got some nice conspiracies, particularly Backup Plan. We might pull it out, if we convince the table to smash the face of whoever's got the Air Servant/Custodi Squire RAF build that we just cannot handle

We do have an 8/8, a 9/9 an 11/11 and a fireshrieker. Plus we are pretty much guarenteed to not mill out. And a smuggler to make something unblockable.

If we need more beef we can always just hold onto our multikicker cards. The removal's workable. We have decent wincons with the beef and a little evasion. Our defense is rock solid. Our draw/filtering's really the biggest weakness.

Pack 1:

Hydra Omnivore
Brago's Favor
Howling Wolf
Howling Wolf
Gnarlid Pack
Worldknit
Elvish Aberration
Enclave Elite
Howling Wolf
Charging Rhino
Warmonger's Chariot
Sporecap Spider
Relic Crush
Cogwork Spy
Scaled Wurm

Pack 2:

Pernicious Deed
Deathreap Ritual
Aether Searcher (Woodvine Elemental)
Woodvine Elemental
Howling Wolf
Echoing Courage
Stasis Cell
Breakthrough
Howling Wolf
Brago's Favor
Guardian Zendikon
Lurking Automaton (11/11)
Cogwork Spy (Grixis Illusionist)
Altar's Reap
Mana Geyser

Pack 3:

Council's Judgment
Marchesa's Smuggler
Backup Plan
Cogwork Grinder
Fireshrieker
Soulcatcher (Cogwork Grinder)
Flowstone Blade (Cogwork Grinder)
Twisted Abomination (Cogwork Grinder)
Reito Lantern
Liliana's Specter (Cogwork Grinder)
Barbed Shocker (Cogwork Grinder)
Warmonger's Chariot (Cogwork Grinder)
Spontaneous Combustion (Cogwork Grinder)
Valor Made Real (Cogwork Grinder)
Whispergear Sneak (Cogwork Grinder)

Pack 4:

Snapcaster Mage
Spider Spawning
Abattoir Ghoul
Burning Vengeance
Selhoff Occultist
Corpse Lunge
Deranged Assistant
Voiceless Spirit
Traitorous Blood
Nightbird's Clutches
Manor Skeleton
Urgent Exorcism

Not sure what to grind here. Spawning?