Hatebear Glare!

Modern Aggro Competitive Counters GW (Selesnya) Hatebears Midrange

JohnnyBoneHead

Creature (22)

• 2x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 4x Loxodon Smiter
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Qasali Pridemage
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 4x Voice of Resurgence
• 3x Wilt-Leaf Liege

Planeswalker (5)

• 2x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 3x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Land (22)

• 4x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 4x Ghost Quarter
• 2x Horizon Canopy
• 2x Plains
• 4x Razorverge Thicket
• 2x Stirring Wildwood
• 3x Temple Garden

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Glare of Subdual
• 4x Oath of Nissa

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 2x Auriok Champion
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 2x Kataki, War's Wage
• 2x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Spellskite

Enchantment (7)

• 2x Choke
• 2x Rest in Peace
• 3x Suppression Field

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The basic concept is to create a big board with difficult threats and lock opponents out of combat with Glare of Subudal, pumping your team as you go. The deck can go big by pumping (through exalted, , Wilt-Leaf Liege Pump and +1/+1 counters) or wide with token swarm. Oath of Nissa is an important card that smooths your game out mana wise and gives better access to your SB creature 1-ofs. This is an inherently fair deck in a fairly unfair format and so suffers at the level of core concept. I've aimed at consistency and disruption as two means of balancing the table so fighting 'fair' has a chance.

The Bear Team. Show

Loxodon Smiter, Voice of Resurgence, Auriok Champion, Wilt-Leaf Liege: All hard to kill, hateful, resilient bodies. This deck needs to keep bodies on board for Glare of Subdual to remain useful so hard to remove threats are key.

Voice in particular works well with the deck as it synergizes with many of the cards in the deck. It gets pumped by Wilt-Leaf Liege, provides an early body to protect planeswalkers, leaves behind a token that can grow very large and helps against one of the decks natural weaknesses - permission spells. I chose to maindeck the full 4 for those reasons.

Loxodon Smiter is my 3 drop of choice in what I anticipate to be a more controlling meta-game now that Sword of the Meek is unbanned. He helps me save SB slots that I would otherwise dedicate to discard hate and he's just a big beater that sometimes gets you there.

Wilt-Leaf Lieage is another beater like Smiter but he turns all these Selesnya dorks into real threats. Add in a couple +1/+1 counters and you will have a lot of damage on board quickly. 4 Power on the attack is vey important now as I suspect Thing in the Ice   and more Wall of Omens.

Auriok Champion is amazing in some games and terrible in others - thus her position in the board. She should gain a lot of life for you between your creatures, token generators and your opponent's creatures. Champion in particular is a brutal card against burn or red based aggro decks. Terrible against Path or Merfolk or a plethora of other decks but can still hang-in there and gain you some life if you really need it.

Scavenging Ooze is needed utility against graveyard decks and helps take advantage of running 6 dorks who inevitably die and then become fodder for Ooze.

Qasali Pridemage fills a similar utility role with the advantage of being double pumped by Liege. Both of these guys deal with the Sword/Foundry combo in different ways and have wide application in the meta-game.

Eternal Witness is there to bring back Ghost Quarters and Path to Exile mainly thought she's very flexible.

Board Control Show

Glare of Subdual is the card I want to make shine here. Taps down attackers, taps down combo enablers, taps down blockers...I think it's worth building around. It comes out against quite a few decks but is also a near-trump card against many more.

Nissa, Voice of Zendikar. I would really like to see the 3cmc green Planeswalker be useful in Modern. She's not all that impressive really but I'd like to see what is possible with her. 6 mana dorks give a strong chance of her coming down turn 2. Multiples of her are actually great so you can +1, then -2 twice for a big team and then do it all again. She seems like the best way to produce tokens quickly and efficiently both card and mana wise.

Garruk Wilderspeaker used to be Elspeth, Knight-Errant but I chose to be more aggressive by including 4 Smiters so he fits in a bit better. The extra mana he provides is very welcome and his -4 Overrun ability can seal many games with the numbers of bodies the deck can generate. He makes tokens to fuel Glare of Subdual. He is bad when are behind on board though!

Path to Exile, is a critical staple. Would like to fit Dromoka's Command back in but I can't find the space.

Oath of Nissa helps provide card filtering, needed in a deck like this. She helps you get your SB creatures more often as well.

Manabase Show

Shaved the mana down to 22 lands. I can get away with it because of 6 dorks and 4 Oath of Nissa to find me land if I need it. Not much draw power in this deck, I do not want to be top-decking lands! I have a lot of basics to get value from opposing Paths, Ghost-Quarters and to help save the day against Blood Moon effects.

Don't want to leave home without my Ghost Quarters! Oath of Nissa helps get them when they are needed. Examples are Tron lands, Inkmoth Nexus and Nykthos/Enchanted Lands.

Horizon Canopy can be painful but the optional card draw is really nice in GW.

Gavony Township is the bomb.

Stirring Wildwood is a great guy. Keeps swinging in post-sweeper effect and gets the double pump from Liege.

Sideboard Show

Kataki, War's Wage helps against Affinity, Lantern and now Thopter Foundry.

Spellskite comes in against removal heavy decks and Infect, Boggles.

Choke All hail Choke! What a nightmare of a card. Great reason to play green all on its own.

Fracturing Gust against affinity and random enchantment decks...this is for FNM after-all. Can wipe out Thopter combo and tokens.

Gaddock Teeg good catch-all against Wrath effects and some combos.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence helps shut down creature combos and slow down Dork decks. Also comes in against flyer heavy decks.

Magus of the Tabernacle helps against swarm decks, Linger Soul decks, Thopter combo decks. Can generally slow down any creature deck if needed.

Rest in Peace when you need more powerful GY hate.

Auriok Champion great at buying lots of time, great against Jund, burn and many other decks.

Runed Halo is a good general card against specific combo wins as well as against the hyper aggro decks like Infect, Boggles, etc.

Stony Silence is another powerhouse card that is needed moving forward with Sword of the Meek running around.

That's the deck! Please upvote if you like it and I welcome suggestions and criticism.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 4 Mythic Rares 38 - 6 Rares 9 - 5 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elemental */* GW, Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Glare Decks
Based on	Algael Bloom JohnnyBoneHead MDN