Budget Bear by Harleypooh71

Format: Commander

Commander: Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mono-Green Bears tribal deck helmed by Ayula, Queen Among Bears, built to flood the board with Bears and changelings (which count as Bears) to trigger Ayula's ETB - either stacking +1/+1 counters or fighting down opposing creatures. A heavy +1/+1 counter subtheme (Hardened Scales, The Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, Metallic Mimic, Ivy Lane Denizen) turns the small bear army into a growing, trampling threat. The primary win is combat: pumped bears finishing with Beastmaster Ascension, Overwhelming Stampede, or Return of the Wildspeaker. A secondary infinite line exists in Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen, generating infinite Squirrel tokens. The deck is a midrange value engine with strong card draw (Beast Whisperer, Garruk's Uprising) but no tutors, making it reliant on natural draws.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Ashcoat Bear
  • 1 Ayula's Influence
  • 1 Ayula, Queen Among Bears
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Blizzard Brawl
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Caller of the Claw
  • 1 Chameleon Colossus
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Collected Company
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Drover Grizzly
  • 1 Druid's Familiar
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Game-Trail Changeling
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grizzly Bears
  • 1 Guardian Gladewalker
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Little Bear
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mother Bear
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranger Class
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Runeclaw Bear
  • 1 Ruxa, Patient Professor
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 35 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Striped Bears
  • 1 Ulvenwald Bear
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Vivien's Grizzly
  • 1 Werebear
  • 1 Wilson, Refined Grizzly
  • 1 Woodland Changeling
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor