Phantasmal Bear

Creature — Bear Illusion

When Phantasmal Bear becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

legendofa on Interactions with illusion effects

2 years ago

In both cases, the Phantasmal Bear dies. The effect targeting it doesn't need to be resolved, it just needs to be announced. The act of targeting is the actual trigger for sacrificing the Bear and its illusionary friends.

1. Opponent's Giant Growth targets Bear

2. Bear's sacrifice ability goes on the stack

3. You cast an overloaded Mizzium Skin or Turn Aside

4. Skin/Turn resolves, Bear gets hexproof or Growth gets countered

5. Bear's sacrifice ability resolves, Bear gets sacrificed

BruhYouFarted on Interactions with illusion effects

2 years ago

Lets say I have a Phantasmal Bear on the battlefield. If they cast a Giant Growth on it, and i cast an Overloaded Mizzium Skin, does my Phantasmal Bear die or does their spell fizzle before the trigger? Lets do the same scenario but i counter their Giant Growth with a Dispel or a Turn Aside. Does my Bear die, or does their spell fizzle and my Bear stick around?

Raknulfr on Discussion: Adding colors to your …

2 years ago

My favorite tribe by far is bears. All but 2 of them are green with only Ursine Fylgja in white and Phantasmal Bear in blue. I don´t care for blue at all but I´d love to see more white/selesnya bears or maybe a few red/gruul bears.

But I´m also happy with them if they are mono green forever since bears are just the best whatever color they are :)

dahhahm on Help beating the s**t out …

4 years ago

A soul sister deck would give your friend a bit of trouble. If he's using Krovikan Mist , he's got a pretty heavy creature list. Could use more info on his playstyle. I wager he's going straight up aggro using dudes like Phantasmal Bear , Vapor Snag and Phantasmal Dragon but I could also see him doing something more control-like with Riftwing Cloudskate , Draining Whelk , meloku the cloud mirror and Counterspell since it sounds like he's pretty annoying.

A mid-range life gaining deck sounds like it will consistently give you more turns to play bigger threats and overall be winning more games. Blue has a lot of problem solving cards so I wouldn't rely on a single card to win you a game, especially if it can get countered. I'd lean more to redundancy and playing relevant cards.

Strategies that use creatures like Soul Warden , Thragtusk or making a deck around that new card Bishop of Wings since angels can block flyers or Suture Priest or Gray Merchant of Asphodel

Rhadamanthus on Redirct and Phantasms

4 years ago

For the benefit of anyone else who comes across this later looking for an answer:

The Phantasmal Bear will still be sacrificed. Once it becomes the target of a spell, its ability triggers and is put onto the stack. Changing the target of the spell to something other than the Bear won't back up the game and "un-trigger" the ability. The ability will still resolve unless something else specifically counters it ( Stifle , etc.).

jconeil1988 on Redirct and Phantasms

4 years ago

I can use Redirect or Spellskite to change the target of my opponents spell, but if I have an Phantasmal Bear on the field that my opponent targets, casting the Redirect or activating Spellskite would null that instance of targeting and I wouldn't have to sacrifice my bear, or would I?

saj0219 on Arena "Modern"

5 years ago

Even there, that is not true. Without putting much thought into it, I can tell you Path to Exile will not interact in the same way with Slippery Bogle , Eternal Scourge , Phantasmal Bear , or Tarmogoyf ... the point is t that it’s almost always the same. It’s that there are 12,000 cards and millions, even billions of possible interactions that need to be checked.

And even at 1%, even at 0.5%, the scale difference between standard and modern remains unchanged. How many hours do you think it took them to make arena as is?

Kogarashi on Grapeshot vs Things going off …

5 years ago

Grapeshot

The problem isn't the damage happening all at the same time (it doesn't), but rather when targeting happens.

First, when you cast Grapeshot, you'll need to choose a target when you put it on the stack. Then, if your storm count is at 3, you'll create three copies of Grapeshot on the stack above the original, and must also choose those targets at that point. Because Lord of the Unreal hasn't been killed yet, you can't target Phantasmal Bear with any of the copies of the spell or the original. So all four copies of Grapeshot will have to go elsewhere.

So you can still kill Lord of the Unreal with your Grapeshot and its copies, but you won't be able to take out the bear with this move. You'll have to have another way of killing it once Lord of the Unreal is gone. Luckily any old targeting spell will work, including a second Grapeshot (and you could then point all the extras at something else, such as your opponent).