Teaching Deck - Bear With Me

Casual Bear Mono-Green

jamochawoke

Creature (19)

• 2x Alpine Grizzly
• 4x Ayula, Queen Among Bears
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 1x Grizzly Bears
• 2x Runeclaw Bear
• 2x Ruxa, Patient Professor
• 4x Werebear
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Grizzly Fate
• 1x Kamahl's Summons
• 3x Life from the Loam
• 3x Savage Swipe
• 3x Winding Way

Land (20)

• 16x Forest
• 4x Tranquil Thicket

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Ayula's Influence
• 1x Bearscape
• 2x Muraganda Petroglyphs
• 1x Words of Wilding

Instant (4)

• 4x Giant Growth

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Sideboard

Creature (11)

• 4x Ashcoat Bear
• 1x Golden Bear
• 2x Mother Bear
• 2x Syr Faren, the Hengehammer
• 2x Vivien's Grizzly

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Rancor

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~-=[ Bruin Up Something New - The Rundown ]=-~

Kodiak you a question? Have you ever wanted to run a teaching deck? That is, a deck that isn't made to win but is made to be overcome by newer players? So it had to have some reasonable threats to play against while teaching them the basic interactions of the game and hopefully give them some wins without feeling like they were being coddled. The scenario is your friend just bought and cracked some packs or one of the starter kits. They make some sloppy jank decks and want someone to teach them how to play.

So my goals are:

• A tribal theme that makes the combat step interesting, but not so overwhelming that you are constantly having to paws the game.
• Powerful enchantments or artifacts to teach the importance of removal either in the main deck or sideboard.
• Graveyard interaction of some sort to teach the importance of alternate zones as resources.
• Most importantly to have fun!

Goblin, wizard, warrior, merfolk, fairy, rogue, human, eldrazi, and ally tribes are far too strong of decks and I didn't want to purposefully play bad cards and misrepresent those tribes (first impressions are important!). So I found bears tribal to be quirky enough and still have enough supporting cards to be a fearsome enough opponent while also being playful enough that new players can learn and grow and eventually overcome them.

~-=[ Fighting Them With Your Bear Hands ]=-~

• Life from the Loam and Winding Way is the real engine of this deck. Not only do they fill your hand and empower other cards like Mother Bear , Loam also keeps your lands out of the graveyard from Ayula's Influence and Winding Way helps you dig and dig for the right bear.
• Werebear provides you reasonable ramp, but can also benefit from all the graveyard shenanigans going on with its threshold ability.
• Grizzly Bears and Runeclaw Bear both synergize with Savage Swipe and Muraganda Petroglyphs . Alpine Grizzly doesn't synergize so much with Swipe but is already 4 power and does get buffed by the Petroglyphs.
• Ayula, Queen Among Bears is the bearer of bad news for your opponent while Yeva, Nature's Herald is just an unbearable amount of value if they don't remove her right away, especially with Ayula out.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Rares 6 - 6 Uncommons 23 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.35
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G
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