Can you Bear it? by LottyDa

Format: Commander

Commander: Kudo, King Among Bears

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Selesnya tribal-bears deck, helmed by Kudo, King Among Bears, turns every creature into a 2/2 Bear, then overwhelms opponents with a dense suite of anthem effects-Glorious Anthem, Anthem of Champions, Rally the Ranks, Flowering of the White Tree, Mirari's Wake, and more. The commander converts your entire menagerie into a uniform threat base, while Ayula, Queen Among Bears provides additional lord triggers and fight-based removal. Token generators such as Maja, Bretagard Protector and King Darien XLVIII flood the board, and finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth and Beastmaster Ascension turn a swarm of 2/2 Bears into a lethal trampling wave. Card-draw engines (Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, Ohran Frostfang, Toski, Bearer of Secrets) keep the gas flowing, and a small tutor package (Worldly Tutor, Idyllic Tutor, Sterling Grove, The Seriema) finds key pieces. The deck wins almost exclusively through combat, relying on sheer numbers and anthems rather than infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Anthem of Champions
  • 1 Archon of Valor's Reach
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Ayula, Queen Among Bears
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dauntless Escort
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Gaea's Anthem
  • 1 Glorious Anthem
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Karametra's Acolyte
  • 1 King Darien XLVIII
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kudo, King Among Bears
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maja, Bretagard Protector
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Nature's Way
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Rabid Bite
  • 1 Rally the Ranks
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reverence
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 T'Challa's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Party Tree
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Werebear
  • 1 Worldly Tutor