Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear!

Commander / EDH Mono-Green

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Creature (26)

• 1x Flaxen Intruder
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Ashcoat Bear
• 1x Balduvian Bears
• 1x Bear Cub
• 1x Forest Bear
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Mother Bear
• 1x Werebear
• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Druid's Familiar
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1x Ruxa, Patient Professor
• 1x Spirit of the Aldergard
• 1x Striped Bears
• 1x Vigor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Ayula's Influence
• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Hibernation's End

Instant (3)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Inspiring Call

Land (34)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 14x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x War Room
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Blessing of Frost
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Grizzly Fate
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Konda's Banner
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Birthing Boughs
• 1x Heirloom Blade
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x The Great Henge

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Someone made one of my favorite light novels' main characters into an alternate artwork for Ayula, Queen Among Bears , so I had to make a deck...

It's not meant to be a very powerful deck; I just wanted to see how far I could get with Ayula, Queen Among Bears .

Most of the deck's strategy revolves around fighting opponents' creatures to death with bears; death by bears. Bears bears bears!

Bears?

Copied bears!

We want as many bears as possible. Bramble Sovereign , Helm of the Host and Lithoform Engine let us copy bears.

Repeatable bears!

Maskwood Nexus and Birthing Boughs make wannabe bears.

Token bears!

Lands are inferior to bears and luckily Ayula's Influence lets us make that profitable trade. Make some more bears with Grizzly Fate and Flaxen Intruder

Bears from the grave!

Well, not quite, but Heirloom Blade will provide successors for your precious bears.

Big bears!?

Hardened Scales , Branching Evolution , Renata, Called to the Hunt , Forgotten Ancient , Evolution Sage , Adaptive Automaton , Metallic Mimic , The Great Henge , Coat of Arms , The Immortal Sun , Door of Destinies , Konda's Banner , Stoneforge Masterwork , The Ozolith and Oran-Rief, the Vastwood all make our bears bigger.

Fighting bears!!!

Bears truly are the most fearsome animals in the kingdom. Ayula, Queen Among Bears can beef up a simple Ashcoat Bear and then have it fight opponents' creatures to death. If the fighting creature has lifelink then there's a lot of life to be gained... And hence why Batterskull , Shadowspear and Basilisk Collar are in the deck. Basilisk Collar is especially notable as it can allow a 2/2 bear token to take down a Serra Angel .

That's right - we don't need flying blockers when we can swipe fliers out of the sky with sharp bear claws.

Ulvenwald Tracker lets the fighting continue even without Ayula.

If Vigor hits the board, well, Ayula, Queen Among Bears can do both her abilities at once - having a bear fight will simultaneously take out an opponent's threat AND grow a bear.

Strategy

If you have enough ability-less bears and bear tokens on the board to swing for lethal, try to sneak Ruxa, Patient Professor into play. Green Sun's Zenith , Finale of Devastation , Chord of Calling and Hibernation's End all let us tutor out Ruxa, Patient Professor .

Shapeshifter cards like Bloodline Pretender count as bears even when not in play - hence their inclusion in this deck.

Generally, you'll want to get Rishkar, Peema Renegade to ramp, Bramble Sovereign to copy bears or Armorcraft Judge to draw tons of cards.

Hibernation's End , Green Sun's Zenith and Finale of Devastation help tutor the right card for the right situation.

Slap a lifelink equipment like Basilisk Collar on a bear and stay alive while fighting opponents' creatures to death.

If you happen to draw Tempt with Discovery , you'll want Gaea's Cradle , Field of the Dead and Reliquary Tower .

When there are plenty of ability-less bears on the board (tokens and meme cards), Ruxa, Patient Professor can sneak an unexpected attack through opponents' defenses.

Doin it for the memes

After making this deck, I've decided to swap out a few cards for inferior ones, simply to make it a more "bear-themed" deck. This does open up an effective new strategy, however, which is to play Ruxa, Patient Professor and attack. Unblockable bears!

Guardian Gladewalker -> Grizzly Bears

Masked Vandal -> Forest Bear

Vivien's Grizzly -> Bear Cub

Webweaver Changeling -> Balduvian Bears

Changeling Titan -> Ruxa, Patient Professor

Upgrade List

Cauldron of Souls

Owlbear

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Copy Clone, On an Adventure, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Shapeshifter 2/2 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B