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!

[@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.

[@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"

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@Skipston55]

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

[@robob2968]

my thought exactly

[@joshwoodferd5737]

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...

[@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. =|

[@TheMorbidHobo]

That last line was beautiful.

[@emerald_lord2267]

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

[@th3summoner]

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

[@CelticRot]

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

[@Linosek279]

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

[@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.

[@Burning---__---starlight]

"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?

[@Burning---__---starlight]

@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

[@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.

[@stephenlewis6922]

If Halsin got it you gotta get down with Kudo!

[@KodamaoftheWeastTree]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@ryanjensen1945]

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

[@shophaune2298]

@@ryanjensen1945 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

[@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

[@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"

[@Ceyx000]

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

[@purgeutopia8696]

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

[@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

[@unnamedaccount1414]

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

[@cainancapko4149]

I would love to put a bunch of stuff like Cost of Arms, Wedding Ring, etc. in a deck like this. Group Bear Hug :D

[@tuongpham7609]

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

[@jmets112]

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

[@D35TR0YM4N]

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

[@matthew3021]

There's definitely creature tutors in those colors

[@zagqueenofchaos8352]

Or another win con is coat of arms and you make your bears huge cause chaos reigns supreme in my house

[@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"

[@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

[@scottlind1]

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

[@lomionjones]

final line got an actual snort out of me

[@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

[@Kalmaggedon]

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

[@Radiodragonofdoom]

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

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

[@Darksotu]

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

[@raymondjohnson5922]

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

[@LanaDelGayyylmao]

Elesh Norn mentioned. Happy day.

[@zacharyrichardson6426]

THAT IS AWESOME

[@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

[@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.

[@einsUNDcolt]

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

[@josephhawkins7974]

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

[@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.

[@darkknightdante6836]

Green has some crazy creatures tutore spell indeed

[@Randoman590]

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

[@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.

[@Rishkar-Peema-Pants]

This is a certified Duskana Moment

[@InsanityPlea100]

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

[@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.

[@takeyouforgranite7850]

Smeagol, Helpful Guide next!

[@mathieuaurousseau100]

"My bears are slightly fluffier than your bears" lol

[@Threepool]

Look I know the new bear hotness is the King, but I'd still like to see a review of my boy Wilson, Refined Grizzly.

[@Cocytus127]

Gaddock Teeg finally has a friend!

[@mrwallace7645]

Hey ! This is the only commander that makes eldrazi fun to play against ! you'll be casting 2/2s with annihilator for 10 and create a minigame where your opponents must protect Kudo at all cost !

[@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

[@TheSOGchronicles]

Man elesh norns phyrexian bear strat was born

[@jaywellgate8304]

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

[@KodamaoftheWeastTree]

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

[@yamatohekatsue9143]

Why is it that the moment i read the effect i was like elish norn ftw

[@zachywatcher2312]

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

[@benji9313]

Hadn't seen it. I finished reading it and immediately thought of Elesh Norn. Hopefully the Derevi player in my group doesn't find out this exists!

[@silllyfun]

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

[@aspirinaVEVO]

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

[@AshleyoftheSwiftspear-pb8cs]

I personally am loving running Eldrazi Monument in this deck.

[@oberlin27]

I'm so disappointed there's no joke about meeting him in the woods

[@KennyNeider]

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

[@aganaom1712]

It's the eight bears meme Holy shit

[@starslayer18]

Can’t wait for him to see Azlask lol

[@varsoonhks3211]

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

[@mistamemewide]

Bear Deck inbound.

[@lauralharris]

Since we're doing mh3 spoilers, can we do Chishiro's esper successor: Arna Kennerüd?

[@Girzi]

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS DAY 🎉❤🎉

[@ProfWulfenstein]

Now I want to play bears

[@l0ker507]

Hosting karaoke is worse than shitting on the floor

[@azelight7931]

The new bear force one. Also side note can we get a roast of the other legendary bear Duskana, the Rage Mother.

[@OdinMagnus]

Damn it wizards. That photo of me was for us, not for the world to see. Lol

[@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!

[@Pandapunch75]

Now we all are playing Bear Force One.

[@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.

[@darkma1ice]

We need a Magda brazen outlaw

[@voidmaster6353]

And now, we wait for the new eldrazi titans cards, Ulalek, and Aslak's rants

[@tommaskery784]

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

[@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

[@gigantesygo2196]

Elesh Norn goes nuts

[@dakkenblah1450]

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