Evercoat Ursine
Creature — Elemental Bear
Trample
Hideaway 3, hideaway 3 (When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if there are cards exiled with it, you may play one of them without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander
- Price
- $0.59
- EDHREC rank
- #5826
Evercoat Ursine puts a massive, trample-equipped body on the board and keeps growing — the kind of threat that demands an answer the turn it lands. Ayula, Queen Among Bears decks run it because every counter it accumulates feeds directly into the commander's fight and buff triggers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears is the premier home for Evercoat Ursine: the Ursine's counter accumulation synergizes with Ayula's triggered ability, and every new Bear entering the battlefield can pump the Ursine further while Ayula fights down opposing threats.
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
Bello, Bard of the Brambles rewards running large, expensive creatures with trample, and Evercoat Ursine fits that profile exactly — a big base stat line that gets bigger over time and hits hard through blockers.
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre discounts big creatures and lets you blitz them for value, and Evercoat Ursine is a prime blitz target: you pay less, attack immediately, draw a card, and the threat was real enough to demand a response.
Xenagos, God of Revels
Xenagos, God of Revels doubles a creature's power and toughness at the start of combat, turning Evercoat Ursine's already-grown stat line into a one-shot threat with trample guaranteed.
Duskana, the Rage Mother
Duskana, the Rage Mother cares about 2/2 Bears attacking and pumps them — Evercoat Ursine enters as a 2/2, immediately qualifies for Duskana's buff, and then snowballs well past that baseline.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Evercoat Ursine is a Commander card through and through — its power scales with a longer game and a crowded board, both conditions that 100-card singleton delivers reliably. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a six-mana creature that doesn't immediately win the game is never seeing play. Commander is where the trample and the counter accumulation actually matter: games go long enough for the Ursine to become a genuine threat, and tribal or +1/+1 counter synergies make every additional turn it survives disproportionately punishing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.59 bulk tier
At $0.59, Evercoat Ursine is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if any of your decks want it. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond whether it fits your build right now.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Bello, Bard of the Brambles
- Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
- Xenagos, God of Revels
- Duskana, the Rage Mother
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.