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River Bear

Creature — Bear3 generic manaGreen mana

A French-vanilla 3/3 whose lone keyword makes it unblockable against blue is a clean expression of green's evasion logic: the color has no flying and no native way to slip past blockers, so it gets there by punishing the opponent's land choices instead. Islandwalk turns the most-played basic in the game into a liability, and against a heavy blue deck this Bear stops being a plain body and becomes a repeatable three damage that never has to fight through the board. The design lever sits entirely on the defending player's manabase: control your own Islands and you have offered the Bear a free path. That conditionality is also the catch, since against a deck running no Islands the keyword reads as empty text, leaving a body priced above the going rate for a 3/3, which is why landwalk has always lived on the margins of constructed play rather than at its center. The printing belongs to a starter-product lineage built on simplified templating and creature-heavy sets aimed at new players, so a beginner-facing Bear whose only keyword reads as "good against blue" fits the brief precisely. Landwalk asks nothing of its controller and everything of the opponent's mana base, a mechanic that hands the steering wheel to the other side of the table.

River Bear (p02)
P02 · #144uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.75
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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