Ashcoat Bear
Creature — Bear
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #10325
Ashcoat Bear is a 2/2 for two mana with flash — playable on curve, useful as an instant-speed trigger, and completely unremarkable outside of tribal synergy. It earns its slot in Ayula, Queen Among Bears decks specifically because it can ambush a combat step and trigger Ayula on your opponent's turn; anywhere else, it's a vanilla body that won't move the needle.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears runs Ashcoat Bear in nearly 90% of builds because flash lets you drop a Bear at instant speed, triggering Ayula during combat or in response to threats — exactly the kind of tempo play a bear-tribal deck needs to stay interactive.
Duskana, the Rage Mother
Duskana, the Rage Mother cares about 2/2 creatures entering the battlefield, so Ashcoat Bear qualifies as a recipient of Duskana's attack-trigger buff and contributes to the power-matters synergy — though the inclusion rate reflects that Duskana decks have better 2/2 options with more text.
Kudo, King Among Bears
Kudo, King Among Bears wants a critical mass of bears on the board, and Ashcoat Bear fills that headcount role at minimum cost — the flash mode occasionally matters for politics or blocking, but it's mostly here as a tribal body to feed Kudo's counters engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ashcoat Bear is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real play is Commander inside bear tribal. In Pauper it's theoretically castable but a 2/2 flash for two has never been competitive — the bar is too high. In Legacy and Vintage it's a non-starter. Commander is the whole story, and even there Ashcoat Bear is a narrow tribal role-player: it belongs in Ayula, Queen Among Bears and adjacent bear lists, and almost nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Ashcoat Bear sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no reason to expect that to change — demand is limited to a single niche tribal archetype. Pick it up without hesitation if you're building bears; otherwise it's not a card you need to track.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Duskana, the Rage Mother
- Kudo, King Among Bears
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.