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| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
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| Vintage | Legal |
Balduvian Bears
Creature — Bear
Ehsteve on
An-Ayula-tion
4 years ago
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Thoughts
Now the changes (reduction in bears) came after multiple playtests. Initially the deck was designed to function a lot like my Arahbo, Roar of the World deck in just jamming as many tribal cards as possible. The issue with this though is:
- Bears by and large have very few meaningful ETBs by themselves,
- Arahbo, Roar of the World always functions from the command zone due to eminence, and
- The way Arahbo is designed means that he requires as many cats as possible to function, as he can never affect himself.
Conversely Ayula, Queen Among Bears only functions on the battlefield, and we have access to multiple token producers in both permanent and spell form.
The Future
A few cards that have caught my attention for possible future additions:
bj_bancroft on Oran-Rief, the Vastwood + Cream …
5 years ago
I have Cream of the Crop and Oran-Rief, the Vastwood in play. Oran-Rief, the Vastwood is untapped. I play Balduvian Bears and tap Oran-Rief, the Vastwood to add a +1/+1 counter to Balduvian Bears. Do I get to search the top 2 or 3 cards of my library with Cream of the Crop?
SerraMeya on
6 years ago
Balduvian Bears is legal in Paper Pauper. I played several Event in my local area and paper pauper stands for its own these days.
to be pauper legal every card in your deck must have been printed as a common in any Edition (e.g. River Boa is pauper legal cause it was common in Mirage Block, nowadays its printed as uncommon). there is no relation to mtgo anymore...
MOKAONE on
6 years ago
Kiivuhl yeah i know that Balduvian Bears is an ice age card but that card doesnt exkist on mtgo so its not pauper leagl. Not all cards exist on mtgo yet so (as far as concerne common cards) not all the paper commons are pauper legal
chaus12 on Strictly better list
6 years ago
Ice Age
Balduvian Bears = Grizzly Bears = Barbary Apes
Fyndhorn Elves = Llanowar Elves
Juniper Order Druid = Ley Druid
Kjeldoran Warrior = Benalish Hero
Knight of Stromgald = Order of the Ebon Hand
Orcish Cannoneers = Orcish Artillery
Order of the White Shield = Order of Leitbur
Zuran Spellcaster = Prodigal Sorcerer
Boza on Survey: Bluffing strategy in mtg
6 years ago
Bluffing is a constant part of magic. Simplest example is this situation, which happens in 90% of Limited games.
Your opponent starts first. On your second turns, you both play Balduvian Bears. On his third turn, the opponent plays a land and attacks with his bears. Do you block?
There is an element of bluffing/mind games in every decision you make without 100% information. That is literally all decisions in Magic. So, yes, there is quite a lot of that.
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