Bear with me by MagicWalls

Format: Commander

Commander: Kudo, King Among Bears

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Kudo, King Among Bears is a GW Bear-tribal deck built around the commander's board-equalizing ability: every creature becomes a 2/2 Bear, which both neuters opponents' haymakers and supercharges your own small bears. The deck goes wide with bears and tokens (Caller of the Claw, Dancing from Dark to Dawn, Scute Swarm, Oketra's Monument), then pumps the board with a massive anthem suite (Coat of Arms, Banner of Kinship, Obelisk of Urd, Beorn the Fierce, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Mirari's Wake). The primary win is combat damage from a wide, anthem-boosted bear army. The signature interaction is Kudo + Elesh Norn, which turns every opponent creature into a 0/0 and kills them all. Ayula, Queen Among Bears provides removal and counters, while Cathars' Crusade and Champion of Lambholt grow the board into an unblockable swarm. Protection comes from Heroic Intervention, Unbreakable Formation, and Shalai, Voice of Plenty.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Ayula, Queen Among Bears
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Beorn the Fierce
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Caller of the Claw
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 King Darien XLVIII
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kudo, King Among Bears
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Natural Affinity
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obelisk of Urd
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Owlbear Shepherd
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Radiant Destiny
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selfless Safewright
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Time of Need
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windborn Muse