They Made the Bears Hateful (Kudo, King Among Bears)

Why did board control need to be even more viable for these people
#magicthegathering #mtg #mtgcommunity #cardgame #mtgcommander

[@slayinderp7501]

I love how the synergy between the Royalty Among Bears is just furball-flavored creature torpedos.

[@eeflos]

I was going to build a deck with him as a commander and call it "The Right to Arm Bears" but now I *have* to call it "Furball Flavored Creature Torpedoes"!

[@Kustan112]

Creature torpedo's is what I now call semen.

[@slayinderp7501]

@@Kustan112 I am both happy to have influenced someone's vernacular, and saddened by the fact that *that* is the influence.

[@liamwhite3522]

Bearzooka

[@Isheian]

Honorary partner commanders? The king and queen of bears? Yes please!

[@moonlight2870]

"Everything is a 2/2 bear!" :D "I play elesh norn!' D:

[@phoenixgaming454]

And green can get to 7 mana pretty by turn 3? Only two have to be white mana..

[@hellhound74]

And that white mana is stupidly easy to grab because half of the green land enchantments say "of any color" or "any combination of colors" so they dont actually have restrictions on casting shit until they actually tap as far as green is concerned that mana might as well just be labeled "casting juice, add color as needed" ​@@phoenixgaming454

[@shantheman9922]

To be fair, D: is the universal response to "I play Elesh Norn!" In any situation

[@hellhound74]

@@shantheman9922 unless your response to "i play elesh norn" is "i cast counterspell"

[@draco4569]

​@@hellhound74 To which you respond, "Veil of Summer".

[@jacobd1984]

Can’t wait till Modern Horizons 10, when we finally get to build the whole bear court.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

I'm looking forward to the bear jester

[@Thetracker69]

​@@PhoenicopterusR that's just me at any gay bar. I am the Jester Among Bears.

[@PotassiumLover]

@PhoenicopterusR that would go so hard

[@benjaminehren7965]

‘I would try to give him tummy rubs and then would promptly die’ This is the most I have ever agreed with this man.

[@rythmiccoma2809]

If bear not friend why friend shaped?

[@JosekTheNecromancer]

I disagree, clearly you would turn into a bear in his presence

[@nexmeles8023]

"I have to draw into it!" **Laughs in Eladamri's Call**

[@einstein951]

*laughs in Worldly Tutor* For those on a budget: Time of Need Threats Undetected (though if your chosen opponent lets you have Ayula, they deserve the bear cannon) War of the Last Alliance Primal Command Shared Summons Wild Pair (since any creature is a 2/2 on the field, it lets you get all the bears from your deck whenever you cast a creature)

[@Bigbadbo121]

Personally, I'm rocking Defense Of the Heart, Worldly Tutor, and Tooth and Nail

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Yeah, I thought he was going to directly point out a lack of creature tutors in GW being a lie since that immediately came to mind even before the generally game-ending (and mono-Green) Tooth and Nail.

[@StripesChaosGremlin]

Laughs in 'he is my commander.'

[@xenosai371]

@@einstein951 Shoutout to Traverse the Ulvenwald too depending on the deck

[@Juniper_Rose]

The real question is not "Can he get it", it's "Him or a random 2/2 Man in the woods"

[@DarthTUK]

I mean with Kudo it's him or a random 2/2 Bear. It is inevitable to pick a bear.

[@Zanador]

Would you rather encounter a man or become a 2/2 Bear

[@valteine]

@@Zanador You either die a man or live long enough to become a 2/2 Bear

[@Y00bi]

In this situation, the man is also a 2/2 bear. You're a 2/2 bear.

[@tuckermatis1572]

Having seen what Selesnya does to Humans? Bear any day.

[@Skipston55]

"I have to draw into it!" *Meanwhile playing the best creature tutor color in the game*

[@robob2968]

my thought exactly

[@FanOfMostEverything]

How to start beef with Graham Stark without ever saying his name.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

Bear Force One will not be denied!

[@aether6293]

​@@parkerdixon-word6295embrace the bear supremacy!!!!

[@Haights]

Bear Force One vs. Bears Forced All

[@Wodferd]

To be fair you would both die if you gave him tummy rubs. He'd make you a 2/2 and you'd cancel each other out.

[@oneleghendo5239]

I immediately thought Elesh Norn when I saw the 2/2 bit.😂

[@AFreakingLlama]

i hate this building the deck now

[@SeraSmiles]

My first thought was delney + Ayula with etb triggers...my second thought was Norn

[@BoisegangGaming]

The mental image of Elesh Norn in the shape of a Grizzly Bear cracks me up tbh. Someone draw that please

[@oktalley99]

imagine the norn mask but furry​@@BoisegangGaming

[@HazzardFlame]

I am SO dropping Helm of the Host on my Elesh Norn...

[@TheMorbidHobo]

That last line was beautiful.

[@emerald_lord2267]

Finally, support for the legendary "8 fucking bears- holy shit" card.

[@brandongalvan6603]

Kudo: "Okay, bear with me here..."

[@fenixmeaney6170]

Kudos for that awesome joke!

[@Pathogenus]

when you play against kudo deck and you're not sure what's more annoying, board of 50 8/8 bears, or player making bear puns

[@magnusprime962]

@@PathogenusYou’re saying the puns might get unbearable?

[@MetaKaios]

@@fenixmeaney6170 Ayulas for your rather less awesome joke. It could use the +1/+1 counters. =|

[@einstein951]

​@@PathogenusI've been preparing ever since I made an Ayula deck

[@Linosek279]

The second you see something in white that gives things 2 toughness you _immediately_ know where this shit’s going

[@th3summoner]

"But I have no tutors!" Worldly Tutor: 👁 👄 👁

[@CelticRot]

Eladamri's Call and Green Sun's Zenith would also like words

[@clawso9014]

BEARFORCE ONE!

[@majinvegeta6364]

BEARS FOR ALL!!!

[@berrim26]

Surrak Bearpuncher approves.

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

theres been like 5 interesting bears in a relatively short period of time at least 3 of them could be commanders, I think it might be time for me to build bear tribal

[@seanheath4492]

I mean, with this thing you can do bear tribal with whatever Selesnya creatures you want. :P

[@MrBrownLostHisM00]

Here’s to hoping Bloomburrow comes with more bear support as well.

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

@@MrBrownLostHisM00 I think the odds are good for that.

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

@@seanheath4492 thats certainly more versatile a good deck to throw lots of mana dorks into. but I do tend to get indecisive If I have too many options to pick from so I think mostly bears is a good start for the deck concept.

[@llamarama6976]

There is already an elemental bear that grows its size depending on land count and returns some lands in the very few spoilers we have​@@MrBrownLostHisM00

[@BloodSplatterArtist]

He's going in the Naya bears deck from Murders. Now all those 2/2 hate bears I stuffed into it are also actual bears now too.

[@woomod2445]

And is himself a hatebear! yeeaaaaah.

[@canolathra6865]

the moment I saw "other creatures have base power and toughness 2/2" and the white pip I immediately though "yet another Elesh Norn one-sided board wipe, except this time with green so we can ramp to her faster and/or cheat her out early"

[@VoiceOfMaddness]

"Draw into it " 😂😂😂😂 natural order , defence of the heart, worldly tutor , summoners pact , chord of calling , sylvan tutor .....etc

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

you know people just choose not to play tutors in commander right?

[@VoiceOfMaddness]

@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 ??? Playing too many tutors just makes decks more consistent, but people do still play at most 3 or 4

[@WittyCorvian]

I would play survival of the fittest which can also be searched with tutors in white

[@matthewutech5970]

​@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 you can also choose not to play lands.

[@Ultinuc]

Player: "I don't have tutors!" Worldly Tutor, Fierce Empath, Eladamri's Call, Defense of the Heart, Altar of Bone, Archdruid's Charm, Chord of Calling, Congregation at Dawn, Fauna Shaman, Green Suns Zenith, Primal Command, Shared Summons, Summoner's Pact, Time of Need: Am I a joke to you??

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

they are boring and a lot of cool people choose not to use tutors in the singleton format.

[@Ultinuc]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 okay? And a lot of people do. It's not tutors that make a deck boring it's the person playing them

[@turtlekappa7141]

Um, Empath only tutorsfor creatures that cost 6 or more....but otherwise yes

[@Ultinuc]

@@turtlekappa7141 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite is 7 mana. So yes it can be tutored by Fierce Empath

[@thesarcasticliberal]

Kudo + MOM = evil Kudo + MOM + Living Plane = galaxy brain evil (and you not being invited back)

[@XpVersusVista]

add coat of arms to that and now your bear stats get increased by the amount of bears you have. each bear on the battlefield buffs every bear on the battlefield. 10 bears? every single one of them gets +9/+9.

[@thesarcasticliberal]

@@XpVersusVista Coat of Arms is symmetrical, and effects EACH CREATURE. And so, yes, your bears will get +9/+9, but so will everybody else's.

[@dannybeane2069]

And then still taking multiple turns to win the game.

[@adriankuester4605]

I disagree with your ending on this one mald. You are a 2/2 bear yourself if he’s around so giving him a tummy rub is far less risky

[@KodamaoftheWeastTree]

When asked “Man or Bear.” You proudly proclaimed, “Neither.”

[@FLCL_rox]

My immediate thought would be all the tribal cards you could use to make any creature you wanna use suddenly perfect tribal synergy.

[@stephenlewis6922]

If Halsin got it you gotta get down with Kudo!

[@kallahcreates6942]

It's okay guys, Coat of Arms is symmetrical so we 'all' have giant roidBears. No don't look at my selesnya colors and scute swarms. It's symmetrical. Just run more creatures BLUE DECK.

[@AnonYmous-mc5zx]

No > Cyclonic Rifts for the 3rd time

[@Randoman590]

Haha scute swarm go brrrr, get bugged on

[@sethb3090]

​@@Randoman590scute swarm go bearrrrr

[@whereideasgotodie2267]

Now hear me out, Have Kudo on the field, play every creature (even those that would shrink because of him), play Delney, Streetwise Lookout Bearharmonicon achieved

[@CodenameJD]

I'm so excited to play him in Duskana

[@thesamuraiman]

Green/White absolutely has the best creature tutors. We will see King on T1 and Elesh on T2, mark my words EDIT: It's a joke.

[@EllipticalReasoning]

Hey now, even with green they probably won't have the mana to tutor AND play norn till like turn 3 or 4

[@shophaune2298]

@@EllipticalReasoning T1 Forest, Sol Ring, Signet. T2 Plains, Cultivate, Kudo T3 Plains, Eladamri's Call, Thran Dynamo T4 Norn, GG

[@JaredJuetten]

@@shophaune2298 T5 - Swords from one of 3 players, or a "snap", or a Murder, etc. Your play group doesn't see this commander and think "I'll keep a non-removal hand" for many games.

[@laurenhahn8569]

I didn't know about this card, and now I have to build a Kudo deck with Ayula and Elish Norn! Thanks, Maldhound!

[@MackDaddyHart]

Nature's Revolt + Ezuri's Predation = tables flipped

[@Glowcl0ud]

Im planning on making a duskana deck and when i saw this i knew it was going in

[@maldhound]

Yeah this thing smacks inside that 99

[@Glowcl0ud]

@@maldhound absolutely, I was also thinking about that elesh norn until I remembered that if I wanted my friends to hate me I can just play a mill deck. My preference is still Smeagol Helpful guide because I want to have as many of OUR land as possible and if I must sacrifice someone else to get it then so be it.

[@scottdahneke1031]

​. Loooool

[@16fireheart]

This deck title can only be called " Just the bear necessities". I will accept no other.

[@amiablereaper]

"Bears repeating"

[@therandomguy403]

Bearforce 3

[@eeflos]

BRILLIANT!

[@magnusprime962]

“Bear Down for Midterms”

[@WittyCorvian]

"Grin and bear it"

[@thejellybeanbazooka1451]

Don't forget, there's also enchantments that turn everyone's lands into creatures, so him and bone mommy just break everyone's will to live

[@breawycker]

Me: this isn't too bad. I mean you keep the abilities. Elesh Norn: hi Me: * dumps more counterspells into my deck *

[@sethb3090]

It won't save you

[@tuongpham7609]

The fact that Kudo and Ayula are not partner commanders make me sad. I'mma make a new house rule just for them.

[@Ceyx000]

lil T: "But green and white are the colors of healing.." Da Bears: "We're Intensive Care Bears"

[@D35TR0YM4N]

I totally misread and assumed only my creatures were 2/2 bears. He is even more amazing!

[@purgeutopia8696]

I now need a Prince of All Bears. And they need to have some porridge.

[@unnamedaccount1414]

Bear queen: launch the bear-apult! Opponent: the what?

[@flynnscheib2487]

You know I wasn't going to make this deck because I already have a bear mommy deck but you got my "creative" juices flowing and now I'm gonna make my play group hate me

[@deeperestmeme479]

Elish norn entering the field when you are playing Kudo is justification for your opponent to grab that card and put it to the scissors

[@evandill]

"I have to draw into it" is the defense that I have used to put combos into otherwise kinda weird slow decks and I feel ATTACKED.

[@nicolasgodfrey5668]

Correction. You'd get turned into a 2/2 bear. Then you'd die. Probably because of Elesh Norn. Or the other Elesh Norn doubling Ayula's trigger.

[@jonathancollins1868]

Seems like It would be fun in a Sidar Kondo of Jimora and Tana the bloodsower deck. Turns Buffs Tanas 1/1 sprouts and no opponent could block any of the 2/2 bears on any side of the field due to Sidar Kondo of Jimora's effect.

[@The_Paradox]

My brain instantly went to comboing it with Elsh Norn Grand Cenobite and just saying no to your opponents to having any creatures

[@matthew3021]

There's definitely creature tutors in those colors

[@aspirinaVEVO]

i don't know if someone has said it before but Domain Expansion: Whoops-All-Bears

[@robob2968]

Time to play all the mana dorks and watch them turn into bears with double their power and toughness. A birds of paradise that is also a 2/2 flying bear.

[@PUDRETE919]

Kudo is a Win-Con in my Duskana deck, because my bears are 5/5 in combat and sometimes they are even a bit fluffier than that

[@raymondjohnson5922]

After five thousand years I am still here and I am still asking for you to talk about meren

[@hisnameiskish4874]

Being immediately called out for thinking it would be a funny and cute "haha bears" deck was a lot

[@KennyNeider]

Kudo, King Among Bears Elesh Norn, Grand Centobite Nature's Revolt 97 Lands You're Welcome!

[@giantotter319]

"I would rather be alone in the woods with a bear then a man" The bear in question:

[@scottlind1]

Time to make a bear deck titled “Enter the bear circle!”

[@KodamaoftheWeastTree]

I literally just thought about the card that lets you choose a creature type, and you have protection from it.

[@Rishkar-Peema-Pants]

This is a certified Duskana Moment

[@Kalmaggedon]

Weeeelll...thats what i call a "Bearforce One" Commander! *.*

[@josephhawkins7974]

Definitely already have the rest of the deck ready for him so I can Elesh and Kudo. I regret nothing.

[@michaelnaramore9310]

The funny thing is that i used to have ayula added a card that turned lands into creatures just because it felt appropriate to let the bears fight everything. Now, it's an even bigger shit on the dance floor mess. Ps fun fact land base was my favorite because one art in dominaria forest literally has a bear shape.

[@silllyfun]

you are severely underestimating how infuriating my modular kudo deck is. built it when he got leaked and its brutal

[@JackgarPrime]

Okay, but what if he DID let you give him tummy rubs? He looks INCREDIBLY fluffy.

[@LanaDelGayyylmao]

Elesh Norn mentioned. Happy day.

[@jmets112]

I already have my kodo deck built I am so excited for Daaaaa Bears!!!!

[@percivalyracanth1528]

This in Pheldagriff with some specific enchantments basically stops everyone from attacking you if their creatures arent buffed

[@Lightmagician60]

Coat of Arms is a fun way to win with this... because while every thing is now an X/X bear you'll probably have more

[@tciddados]

I know there's many more broken things you could do with this, but my immediate thought was just that it would be funny to throw down ornithopters with this and have 0 cost flying bear machines.

[@dakkenblah1450]

Green can find legendary creatures for 2 mana and that’s just one of the cards they have access to search for creatures.

[@jaywellgate8304]

Bear tribal - if the bear cards dont kill you, the bear puns will. Also, asking for Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

[@Radiodragonofdoom]

Continuing in my quest to get you to review Sharuum the Hegemon and decide if she can get it.

[@mistamemewide]

Bear Deck inbound.

[@Shiny_Plume]

You don’t have to draw into it, Eladamri’s call and Tooth and Nail exist. And Worldly Tutor… and Archdruid’s Charm… and Last March… and-

[@InsanityPlea100]

This whole set seems to have the theme 'oh, you liked this classic creature/theme? Ok, well now everything is that.

[@varsoonhks3211]

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite : "Ya'll still have bears?"

[@Darksotu]

I guess you could say the bear royalty is leading the bear charge 😎 I'll show myself out now

[@viper102691]

I can already feel a living lands hitting the field followed by an elesh norn or ayula making me more miserable than i needs to be cause it's just "bears".

[@einsUNDcolt]

I absolutely love the Kudo comics one artist is doing on twitter.

[@TheSOGchronicles]

Man elesh norns phyrexian bear strat was born

[@EstradusTheDragon]

On the meme side of things; run this with coat of arms. Every creature on the field gets +1/+1 for each creature that shares a type with it - theyre all bears. they are all equally strong.

[@sethb3090]

And they all bear arms

[@giovannirocket9954]

Kudo, Ayula, and Elesh is that polycule look across the bar at you wondering if you'd like to come have a drink with them

[@TheMag1cWalrus]

Bears but no fish. Please embrace Emry

[@jthrone7768]

If I had to choose between running into Kumo or Maldhound in the forest, it would be Mald, but I’d have to think about it for half a second.

[@darkknightdante6836]

Green has some crazy creatures tutore spell indeed

[@aganaom1712]

It's the eight bears meme Holy shit

[@Nslygh1213]

Slightly fluffier bears… that’s a good deck name.

[@tommaskery784]

Finally, the pride bearscape can see PLAY!!!!

[@mathieuaurousseau100]

"My bears are slightly fluffier than your bears" lol

[@Daxma006]

Green white not having creature tutors and the ramp to cast bone mommy? Thats a myth! You can run machine mommy and as a bear she gets work done all the same

[@zachywatcher2312]

this is buffing my ooze tokens from my slime against humanity deck

[@My_Myopic_Optic]

There are AT LEAST 3 good creature tutors in green. They're getting Norn if you let them.

[@VirgilAllenMoore]

It's worse than you think, green creature tutors like shared summons and cord of calling, or finale of devastation. Not to mention that Crater Huff still works

[@tomduckworth6430]

Draw into it? It’s also green which is the creature tutor color. Bear mommy and Bone mommy are always coming out

[@CourtesyCurtis]

I immediately thought of if anyone is in black and has massacre wurm then the game is also gonna be interesting

[@coreytre5016]

Time to bear down and play this 🐻

[@uselessinformation9554]

Inb4 you play the green enchant that turns all lands into creatures, then slam bone mommy onboard with the hatebear. Major OOF.

[@Omnicloud7strife]

In fairness, Mald, you’d attempt tummy rubs, and promptly trade.

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

[@Randoman590]

I'ma use this opportunity to start requesting Cadric, Soul Kindler.

[@Monsterthatsunderyourbed]

I mean I have a bear themed green deck so this is perfect for me, ngl seeing people have a 100 cards in their decks literally scare me because I can't have fun!