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Ayula's Influence + Gift of Estates + Knight of the Reliquary , an unusual prototype for the Johnny in you.
This deck is a lot of fun to play, namely because there is so much variety in the interactions between cards, creating numerous unique combos that are actually pretty powerful. For example: with a Plains , a Weathered Wayfarer , and an Ayula's Influence out, we can tutor a Selesnya Sanctuary which we use to bounce the Plains we tapped to activate Weathered Wayfarer . We then discard the Plains , creating a 2/2 Bear Token. So we get a 2/2 bear, increase the next turn's mana-base, and ensure we can activate Weathered Wayfarer again on our next turn. This trick is especially fun because Selesnya Sanctuary is usually among the worst lands, but here, it's one of the best lands in the deck. And to make things funnier, because Greenseeker can only get us basic lands, when we use Weathered Wayfarer to tutor lands we plan on discarding, the best target is Temple Garden !
Weathered Wayfarer is essential to this deck. The more we can play, the more lands we can discard into 2/2 Bear Tokens each turn. Additionally, Weathered Wayfarer in an opening hand makes the deck much more flexible during those vital first few turns - Fewer lands are needed in the opening hand, we can mana-fix for Ayula's Influence , we can tutor lands to discard, and we can tutor utility lands like Hall of Heliod's Generosity , Oran-Rief, the Vastwood or even Lotus Field . And to make things even better, Path to Exile combos very nicely with Weathered Wayfarer , too!
Like Weathered Wayfarer , Gift of Estates has a land conditional in it's casting cost. Typically, this means that it's a dead card too often to be useful to anyone. But here, we're using it to discard lands to make more 2/2 Bear Tokens. While paying GGG to cast Ayula's Influence and 1W to cast Gift of Estates to get 3 Plains all to make 3x 2/2 Bear Tokens might not sound like a great deal, it gets better pretty quickly. With 4x Gift of Estates and 4x Life from the Loam , we're going to repeat this deal over and over and over, generating lots and lots of 2/2 Bear Tokens. If we manage to cast 3x Gift of Estates or Life from the Loam , we'll have paid 1 mana for each 2/2 Bear Token.
All these combos hinge on essentially cycling lands like crazy, and pretty soon, our graveyard starts getting pretty thick. Just when opponents think it's lots of 2/2 Bear Tokens they have to deal with, we play Knight of the Reliquary , which will often enter as a 6/6 or more because of all the lands we've already discarded.
There a lots of other funny ways these cards interact - some more obvious than others. Discovering all these clever combos makes the deck resilient, dynamic, and interactive. It's not just studying the right plays of a Tier 1 trending archetype. It's an exploration into the more peculiar corners of the magic expanse.
Why is Greenseeker in the deck? Since we only need 1x Ayula's Influence , subsequent copies are usually dead cards. Greenseeker turn's those dead cards into 2/2 Bear Tokens and while also pumping Knight of the Reliquary .
Why is Reliquary Tower included? Because the Knight of the Reliquary needs a place to live! No, jk, that's not why. It's because sometimes we can get a little mana-screwed and we don't want to discard essential spells. We can cast a Gift of Estates to use mana we'd have otherwise wasted, so we can make a spate of 2/2 Bear Tokens later.
My custom bear token! (not my art) 
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| Date added | 4 years |
| Last updated | 4 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 35 - 7 Rares 6 - 5 Uncommons 10 - 3 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.83 |
| Tokens | Bear 2/2 G |
| Folders | Modern Ideas, Inspi ~, Bears |
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