Ayula, an Ursanine Amount of Counters

Commander / EDH Bear Counters Mono-Green Trample

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Creature (31)

• 1x Alpine Grizzly
• 1x Ashcoat Bear
• 1x Balduvian Bears
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Bear Cub
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Circle of the Moon Druid
• 1x Earthshaker Giant
• 1x Forest Bear
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 1x Guardian Gladewalker
• 1x Kamahl, Heart of Krosa
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Mother Bear
• 1x Owlbear Cub
• 1x Pale Bears
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Runeclaw Bear
• 1x Ruxa, Patient Professor
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Spectral Bears
• 1x Ulvenwald Bear
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Werebear
• 1x Wilson, Refined Grizzly
• 1x Woodland Changeling

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Blessing of Frost
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Ecological Appreciation
• 1x Grizzly Fate
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Predatory Focus
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Road of Return
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Verdant Confluence

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Ayula's Influence
• 1x Bearscape
• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Glorious Sunrise
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Master Chef
• 1x Ordeal of Nylea
• 1x Primal Order
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (4)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 21x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x War Room

Instant (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Fog
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

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An Ayula deck leaning into the +1/+1 counters theme and overrun effects. Shying away from using anthems and Bear Force One meme clones.

Notable Inclusions:

Primal Order: The decks needs a way to win (or at least apply pressure outside of combat) and this was a great way to do it.

Ecological Appreciation: A second copy of Grizzly Fate with potentially a different kind of upside if you can play the politics game with one of your opponents. Best case you get your two best 2 or 3 mana creatures in that moment with a friendly opponent. Worst case you get two vanilla bears which trigger your commander and your deck does what it wants to do, put bears into play.

Ordeal of Nylea: A ramp and counter card that does everything the deck wants to do. Extremely easy to achieve 3 or more counters. Often a 2 mana Explosive Vegetation by just playing the deck.

Command Beacon and Road of Return: Our deck really needs it’s commander in play to function and these give us ways around prohibitive commander tax levels with no downside.

Snow: This deck needs all the help it can get. It’s literally bears. Going with snow basics opens up a bunch opportunities for incremental advantage with snow relevant lands and allows for oddball +1/+1 card like Blessing of Frost furthering the counter theme.

Notable Omissions:

Words of Wilding: Bear making machine and fun nonbo with Sylvan Library in theory, but every time this card has come up I've almost always preferred and sometimes outright needed the option to draw the card rather than make the bear.

Seek the Horizon: Synergizes with Ayula's Influence but the rate felt bad when it’s not in play. I really like Nissa's Triumph here as well, but Sprouting Vines seems better due to the instant speed and upside.

Kamahl's Summons: Even with Ayula in play I didn’t like giving my opponents bears and clogging things up.

Flaxen Intruder: You don’t get the bear tokens if you play the creature first and she’s really unreliable removal. And I’m dumb enough to be ok with 3 bears for 7 mana, so it was a tough call.

2 Mana Ramp: We always need Ayula as our turn 2 play and need a follow up bear drop, so options like Rampant Growth, Three Visits, and Nature's Lore never get played early enough to really shine and they are brutal draws late game. 3 mana options are a better fit for the deck as a turn 3 play depending on the board state or as a later drop. Into the North is the exception as it can tutor up our Snow toolbox lands for removal or scrying.

Inspirations:

Ayula Bearstorm

Bear Force One

Fernayula

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Current EDH Decks, Deck Ideas, just ideas