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THEORYCRAFTED Bears
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $331.75
Salt sum: 31.45
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Commander

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Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one — • Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear. • Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.

Creature
Ayula, Queen Among Bears (h1r) 19

Commander

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ZZCounter Spell

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Avoid Fate

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Instant
Avoid Fate (tsb) 73
Bind

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.) Draw a card.

Instant
Bind (inv) 182

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ZZRamp

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Circle of Dreams Druid

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Creature
Circle of Dreams Druid (afr) 176
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (otc) 192
Werebear

{T}: Add {G}. Threshold — This creature gets +3/+3 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Creature
Werebear (dmr) 182
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (mkc) 195

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Bears

Qty: 23 Price: $101.19
Alpine Grizzly

Creature
Alpine Grizzly (plst) KTK-127
Ashcoat Bear

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Creature
Ashcoat Bear (tsp) 190
Balduvian Bears

Creature
Balduvian Bears (ice) 226
Bear Cub

Creature
Bear Cub (plst) P02-123
Copper Host Crusher

Trample Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Copper Host Crusher (mom) 181
Dragon-Scarred Bear

Formidable — {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Creature
Dragon-Scarred Bear (plst) DTK-183
Drover Grizzly

Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. Saddle 1 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drover Grizzly (otj) 161
Druid's Familiar

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, each of those creatures gets +2/+2.

Creature
Druid's Familiar (avr) 175
Forest Bear

Creature
Forest Bear (ptk) 135
Golden Bear

Creature
Golden Bear (p02) 127
Grizzly Bears

Creature
Grizzly Bears (10e) 268
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Vigilance, reach Lumra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When Lumra enters, mill four cards. Then return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods (blb) 183
Mother Bear

{3}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Mother Bear (mh1) 171
Pale Bears

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Pale Bears (ice) 256
Razorclaw Bear

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Razorclaw Bear (p02) 142
River Bear

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
River Bear (9ed) 266
Runeclaw Bear

Creature
Runeclaw Bear (plst) M15-197
Spirit of the Aldergard

When this creature enters, search your library for a snow land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. This creature gets +1/+0 for each other snow permanent you control.

Creature
Spirit of the Aldergard (khm) 195
Striped Bears

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Striped Bears (wth) 140
Stuffed Bear

{2}: This artifact becomes a 4/4 green Bear artifact creature until end of turn.

Artifact
Stuffed Bear (dbl) 259
Surrak and Goreclaw

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Surrak and Goreclaw (mom) 337
Ulvenwald Bear

Morbid — When this creature enters, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Creature
Ulvenwald Bear (dka) 129
Wilson, Refined Grizzly

This spell can't be countered. Vigilance, reach, trample Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Wilson, Refined Grizzly (clb) 261

Bears

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ZZDraw

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Call of the Wild

{2}{G}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

Enchantment
Call of the Wild (8ed) 235
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (scd) 187
Hibernation's End

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever you pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of age counters on this enchantment, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Hibernation's End (csp) 110
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (pip) 203
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (lcc) 254
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (scd) 211

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ZZRemoval

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
Entangling Vines

Enchant tapped creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Entangling Vines (m10) 181
Fade from History

Each player who controls an artifact or enchantment creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token. Then destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Fade from History (bro) 177
Lignify

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is a Treefolk with base power and toughness 0/4 and loses all abilities.

Enchantment Kindred
Lignify (ltc) 252
Rampaging Yao Guai

Vigilance, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments with total mana value X or less.

Creature
Rampaging Yao Guai (pip) 82
Roots

Enchant creature without flying When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Roots (hml) 95

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Fight

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Blizzard Brawl

Choose target creature you control and target creature you don't control. If you control three or more snow permanents, the creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. Then those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Blizzard Brawl (khm) 162
Outmuscle

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Adamant — If at least three green mana was spent to cast this spell, the creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn.

Sorcery
Outmuscle (eld) 170
Predatory Urge

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature."

Enchantment
Predatory Urge (pca) 74
Savage Punch

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. Ferocious — The creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn before it fights if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Savage Punch (j22) 723
Savage Swipe

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn if its power is 2. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Savage Swipe (mh1) 178

Fight

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ZZLand

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Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Land
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood (nec) 173
Snow-Covered Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Forest (csp) 155

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More Bears

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Ayula's Influence

Discard a land card: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.

Enchantment
Ayula's Influence (mh1) 156
Bearscape

{1}{G}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.

Enchantment
Bearscape (sld) 1008
Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (rav) 158
Grizzly Fate

Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. Threshold — Create four 2/2 green Bear creature tokens instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Grizzly Fate (plst) JUD-119
Words of Wilding

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, create a 2/2 green Bear creature token instead.

Enchantment
Words of Wilding (ons) 305

More Bears

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ZZLife Gain

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Favor of the Woods

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Favor of the Woods (dka) 113

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Pump

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Awaken the Bear

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Instant
Awaken the Bear (ktk) 129
Giant Growth

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Giant Growth (j21) 790
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (wot) 55
Muraganda Petroglyphs

Creatures with no abilities get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Muraganda Petroglyphs (tsr) 220
Primal Frenzy

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has trample.

Enchantment
Primal Frenzy (ody) 262
Roaring Earth

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Channel — {X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target land you control. It becomes a 0/0 green Spirit creature with haste. It's still a land.

Enchantment
Roaring Earth (neo) 204
Ruxa, Patient Professor

Whenever Ruxa enters or attacks, return target creature card with no abilities from your graveyard to your hand. Creatures you control with no abilities get +1/+1. For each creature you control with no abilities, you may have that creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Creature
Ruxa, Patient Professor (c21) 66

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ZZProtection

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Revealing Wind

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You may look at each face-down creature that's attacking or blocking.

Instant
Revealing Wind (dtk) 197

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