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Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Legendary Creature — Bear · {1}{G} · Green commander
Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.
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What Ayula, Queen Among Bears actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
What an Ayula, Queen Among Bears deck needs
Plays as bear typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- bear creatures (its text counts them)
The Ayula, Queen Among Bears deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth1 mana
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears2 mana
- Werebear2 mana
- Wilson, Refined Grizzly2 mana
- Ashcoat Bear2 mana
- Balduvian Bears2 mana
- Bear Cub2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ayula, Queen Among Bears is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Basking Broodscale + Kudo, King Among Bears2,635 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Scurry Oak + Kudo, King Among Bears890 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Herd Baloth + Kudo, King Among Bears408 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Herd Baloth + Maskwood Nexus292 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Scurry Oak + Maskwood Nexus213 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears + Basking Broodscale + Maskwood Nexus200 decks