Friendly Teddy
Artifact Creature — Bear Toy
When this creature dies, each player draws a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #10087
Friendly Teddy locks opponents out of targeting each other with spells and abilities — a symmetrical politics effect stapled to a two-mana 1/1 Bear. In Ayula, Queen Among Bears builds specifically, that body is the point, but outside tribal contexts the effect is too easily worked around to justify the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears triggers off every Bear entering the battlefield, so Friendly Teddy earns its slot twice — once as a cheap trigger and once as a pillow-fort piece that buys the deck time to accumulate bears and stack counters.
Duskana, the Rage Mother
Duskana, the Rage Mother cares about 2/2 base-power creatures attacking, and Friendly Teddy's passive discourages opponents from pointing removal at your board before you've built critical mass — a minor but real edge in a deck that wants to swing wide with bears.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Friendly Teddy is a Commander card through and through — the group-hug/politics angle only matters in a multiplayer context where opponents are actually targeting each other. In Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Standard, a two-mana 1/1 that does nothing to the board state you're actually fighting is unplayable. Pauper could theoretically use a cheap Bear for tribal synergies, but the effect is irrelevant in one-on-one. Commander is where Friendly Teddy finds its niche, and even there it's a role-player in Bear tribal rather than a broadly useful card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Friendly Teddy is bulk — you're paying pennies for a niche tribal piece. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no reason to stock up or hesitate; just buy the single if you're building Bears.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Duskana, the Rage Mother
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.