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Ulvenwald Bear

Creature — Bear2 generic manaGreen mana

A 2/2 for three mana whose entire pitch lives in the sequencing of one entry trigger. The body it lands on is almost incidental: cast it after a creature has hit the graveyard this turn and the morbid trigger hands out two +1/+1 counters to any creature, the Bear itself included. That open target line is what gives the design its range. The counters can fatten the freshly-arrived 2/2 into a 4/4 with no death on the back end, push an already-large attacker over a blocker, or quietly upgrade something with evasion or an activated ability worth growing. Morbid here asks for timing, not deckbuilding contortions: a removal spell, a trade in combat, or a sacrifice the turn you cast it is enough to flip the condition, and a green board that wants to attack tends to generate corpses as a matter of course. The discipline is that the ability checks once, on entry, and never again. Play the Bear with no creature having died this turn and you get a plain 2/2, no second chance, no way to bank the counters for a better turn. That single window is the skill test buried in a common: it rewards a player who reads the turn and sequences the kill before the cast, and gives nothing back to one who plays the curve out in order.

Ulvenwald Bear (dka)
DKA · #129common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $1.91
Oracle Text

Rules text

Morbid — When this creature enters, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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