Exuberant Wolfbear
Creature — Wolf Bear
Whenever this creature attacks, you may change the base power and toughness of target Human you control to this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #20272
Exuberant Wolfbear turns your commander into a free combat trick — every attack, your commander gets +X/+X where X is the Wolfbear's power, which compounds fast in a go-wide or pump strategy. The cost is a four-mana 3/3 with no evasion, so it needs a supportive shell to earn its slot; in Ayula, Queen Among Bears it absolutely finds one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears wants Bears, and Exuberant Wolfbear pulls double duty — it's a Bear that pumps Ayula on every attack, turning her from a 2/2 into a legitimate threat while simultaneously triggering her enter-the-battlefield fights ability the moment it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Exuberant Wolfbear is a Commander card through and through — the ability scales with board state and rewards the kind of redundant creature synergies that multiplayer games enable. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy it's too slow and too narrow, a four-mana 3/3 that does nothing the turn it enters and requires combat to matter. Pioneer offers tribal and stompy shells but nothing that specifically rewards a Bear subtype or commander-pumping effect, so it sits unused there too. Commander is where the card is legal and actually worth running, specifically in creature-heavy green decks that attack repeatedly and can exploit the cumulative stat boost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Exuberant Wolfbear is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box or grabbing a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk tribal pieces at this price rarely spike unless the tribe gets a competitive push, so treat it as a cheap role-player and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.