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The Bear Necessities
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $307.04
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Duskana, the Rage Mother

When Duskana, the Rage Mother enters, draw a card for each creature you control with base power and toughness 2/2. Whenever a creature you control with base power and toughness 2/2 attacks, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Creature
Duskana, the Rage Mother (mkc) 5

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Creature

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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
Circle of the Moon Druid

Bear Form — During your turn, Circle of the Moon Druid is a Bear with base power and toughness 4/2. (It loses all other creature types.)

Creature
Circle of the Moon Druid (afr) 177
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 Dragon-Scarred Bear. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Creature
Dragon-Scarred Bear (plst) DTK-183
Exuberant Wolfbear

Whenever Exuberant Wolfbear attacks, you may change the base power and toughness of target Human you control to Exuberant Wolfbear's power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature
Exuberant Wolfbear (plst) IKO-151
Forest Bear

Creature
Forest Bear (mb2) 206
Golden Bear

Creature
Golden Bear (plst) P02-127
Grizzly Bears

Creature
Grizzly Bears (10e) 268
Hurska Sweet-Tooth

Whenever Hurska Sweet-Tooth attacks, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") Whenever you gain life, you may pay {G/W}. When you do, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained.

Creature
Hurska Sweet-Tooth (j25) 53
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 Razorclaw Bear 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 (plst) P02-144
Runeclaw Bear

Creature
Runeclaw Bear (plst) M15-197
Ursine Champion

{5}{G}: Ursine Champion gets +3/+3 and becomes a Bear Berserker until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Ursine Champion (m19) 304
Ursine Fylgja

Ursine Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it. Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn. {2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Creature
Ursine Fylgja (csp) 22

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Protection

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Cover of Winter

Cumulative upkeep {S} (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. {S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.) If a creature would deal combat damage to you and/or one or more creatures you control, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of age counters on Cover of Winter. {S}: Put an age counter on Cover of Winter.

Enchantment
Cover of Winter (csp) 3
Yeva, Nature's Herald

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Yeva, Nature's Herald (rvr) 162

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Tokens

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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 (ody) 229
Caller of the Claw

Flash When Caller of the Claw enters, create a 2/2 green Bear creature token for each nontoken creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

Creature
Caller of the Claw (c15) 177
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
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid

{1}: Until end of turn, target token you control becomes a green Bear creature with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Halsin, Emerald Archdruid (clb) 234
Kamahl's Summons

Each player may reveal any number of creature cards from their hand. Then each player creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token for each card they revealed this way.

Sorcery
Kamahl's Summons (ons) 269
Mother Bear

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

Creature
Mother Bear (mh1) 171
Professor of Zoomancy

When Professor of Zoomancy enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Professor of Zoomancy (stx) 140
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

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Anthem

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Kudo, King Among Bears

Other creatures have base power and toughness 2/2 and are Bears in addition to their other types.

Creature
Kudo, King Among Bears (mh3) 192
Ruxa, Patient Professor

Whenever Ruxa, Patient Professor 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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Draw

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Evercoat Ursine

Trample Hideaway 3, hideaway 3 (When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.) Whenever Evercoat Ursine deals combat damage to a player, if there are cards exiled with it, you may play one of them without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Evercoat Ursine (blc) 30
Friendly Teddy

When Friendly Teddy dies, each player draws a card.

Creature Artifact
Friendly Teddy (dsk) 247
Owlbear Cub

Mama's Coming — Whenever Owlbear Cub attacks a player who controls eight or more lands, look at the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Owlbear Cub (clb) 246
Owlbear Shepherd

At the beginning of your end step, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, draw a card.

Creature
Owlbear Shepherd (clb) 247
Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Creature
Rumor Gatherer (clb) 705
Striped Bears

When Striped Bears enters, draw a card.

Creature
Striped Bears (wth) 140
Vivien's Grizzly

{3}{G}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, put it on the bottom of your library.

Creature
Vivien's Grizzly (plst) WAR-182

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Pump

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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 Druid's Familiar is paired with another creature, each of those creatures gets +2/+2.

Creature
Druid's Familiar (plst) AVR-175
Giant Growth

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

Instant
Giant Growth (j25) 662
Monstrous Rage

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Create a Monster Role token attached to it. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.)

Instant
Monstrous Rage (woe) 142
Syr Faren, the Hengehammer

Whenever Syr Faren, the Hengehammer attacks, another target attacking creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Syr Faren's power.

Creature
Syr Faren, the Hengehammer (eld) 177
Tuya Bearclaw

Whenever Tuya Bearclaw attacks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.

Creature
Tuya Bearclaw (cmm) 360

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Tutor

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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 Hibernation's End's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of age counters on Hibernation's End, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Hibernation's End (csp) 110
Instrument of the Bards

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards. {3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Artifact
Instrument of the Bards (afr) 190

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Artifact

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Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 127
Stuffed Bear

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

Artifact
Stuffed Bear (mid) 259

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Enchantment

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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
Fylgja

Enchant creature Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it. Remove a healing counter from Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn. {2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Fylgja.

Enchantment
Fylgja (ice) 26

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Ramp

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Bear Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, untap all lands you control." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Bear Umbra (woc) 121
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Spirit of the Aldergard

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

Creature
Spirit of the Aldergard (khm) 195
Werebear

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

Creature
Werebear (dmr) 182

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Copy

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Mirror of the Forebears

As Mirror of the Forebears enters, choose a creature type. {1}: Until end of turn, Mirror of the Forebears becomes a copy of target creature you control of the chosen type, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Mirror of the Forebears (c17) 54

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Evasion

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Drover Grizzly

Whenever Drover Grizzly 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
Forebear's Blade

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample. Whenever equipped creature dies, attach Forebear's Blade to target creature you control. Equip {3}

Artifact
Forebear's Blade (cmm) 384
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

Evasion

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Recursion

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Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Vigilance, reach Lumra, Bellow of the Woods'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

Recursion

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Counters

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Boreal Outrider

Whenever you cast a creature spell, if {S} of any of that spell's colors was spent to cast it, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Creature
Boreal Outrider (khm) 163
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 Ulvenwald Bear enters, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Creature
Ulvenwald Bear (dka) 129

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Land

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Alpine Meadow

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Alpine Meadow enters tapped.

Land
Alpine Meadow (khm) 248
Arctic Flats

Arctic Flats enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Arctic Flats (csp) 143
Arctic Treeline

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Arctic Treeline enters tapped.

Land
Arctic Treeline (khm) 249
Argoth, Sanctum of Nature

Argoth, Sanctum of Nature enters tapped unless you control a legendary green creature. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token, then mill three cards. Activate only as a sorcery. (Melds with Titania, Voice of Gaea.)

Land
Argoth, Sanctum of Nature (bro) 256a
Highland Forest

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Highland Forest enters tapped.

Land
Highland Forest (clb) 896
Highland Weald

Highland Weald enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Highland Weald (csp) 147
Snow-Covered Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Forest (mb2) 120
Snow-Covered Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Mountain (mb2) 119
Snow-Covered Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Plains (mb2) 116
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260

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Removal

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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 (mh1) 155
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
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
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
Flaxen Intruder

Creature
Flaxen Intruder // Welcome Home (eld) 155
Hunter's Mark

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a blue permanent you don't control. This spell can't be countered. Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Then it deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Hunter's Mark (afr) 188
Rampaging Yao Guai

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

Creature
Rampaging Yao Guai (pip) 82
Stormkeld Vanguard

Creature
Stormkeld Vanguard // Bear Down (woe) 187
Ulvenwald Tracker

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

Creature
Ulvenwald Tracker (mm3) 144

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7 pips - 6 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
3 pips - 3 cards
11 mana - 11 cards
80 pips - 61 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
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