Bear Necessities by ChaosPirateX

Format: Commander

Commander: Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Ayula, Queen Among Bears leads a mono-green Bear tribal combat deck that wins by going wide with cheap bears and pumping them with anthem and +1/+1 counter synergies. Ayula herself is incremental value, adding two counters or fighting a creature each time another Bear enters, not a combo engine. Secondary paths generate endless 2/2 Bears via Bearscape, Words of Wilding, Ayula's Influence and Grizzly Fate to rebuild after wipes and fuel Gaea's Cradle and Three Tree City. Hidden commander is Ruxa, Patient Professor, which turns the deck's many vanilla 2/2 Bears into +1/+1 unblockable threats and recurs them. No infinite combos are present; all wins are fair combat overruns with trample from Garruk's Uprising, Goreclaw and Beorn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alpine Grizzly
  • 1 Argoth, Sanctum of Nature
  • 1 Ashcoat Bear
  • 1 Awaken the Bear
  • 1 Ayula's Influence
  • 1 Ayula, Queen Among Bears
  • 1 Balduvian Bears
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bear Cub
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Bearscape
  • 1 Beorn the Fierce
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Bosco, Just a Bear
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Copper Host Crusher
  • 1 Creeping Renaissance
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragon-Scarred Bear
  • 1 Drover Grizzly
  • 1 Druid's Familiar
  • 1 Fade from History
  • 32 Forest
  • 1 Forest Bear
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Gigantic Big Bear
  • 1 Golden Bear
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grizzly Bears
  • 1 Grizzly Fate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Little Bear
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mother Bear
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Ordinary Bear
  • 1 Owlbear
  • 1 Pale Bears
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Rampaging Yao Guai
  • 1 Razorclaw Bear
  • 1 River Bear
  • 1 Ruxa, Patient Professor
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Striped Bears
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Titania's Command
  • 1 Vivien's Grizzly
  • 1 Werebear
  • 1 Wilson, Refined Grizzly
  • 1 Words of Wilding
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow