Grizzly Bears
Creature — Bear
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Price
- $2.23
- EDHREC rank
- #8801
Grizzly Bears is a 2/2 for two mana with no text — the baseline against which every other two-drop gets measured, and almost everything measures better. Outside of dedicated Bear tribal with Ayula, Queen Among Bears, there is no competitive reason to run it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Grizzly Bears is a Bear, and that's all Ayula, Queen Among Bears needs — every Bear you cast triggers her ability, so a vanilla 2/2 is a free pump-or-fight effect stapled to an otherwise blank body.
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor explicitly rewards creatures with no abilities, and Grizzly Bears is the textbook example — Ruxa turns that blank text box into a buff and a pseudo-evasion clause, making the Bears legitimately threatening.
Duskana, the Rage Mother
Duskana, the Rage Mother cares about 2/2 creatures specifically, and Grizzly Bears enters as exactly that — it triggers Duskana's attack bonus and serves as one of the cheapest ways to hit her size requirement.
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven wants a critical mass of vanilla creatures to fuel her cost-reduction and deck-thinning effects, and Grizzly Bears is among the cheapest bodies available to pad that count.
Kudo, King Among Bears
Kudo, King Among Bears is Bear tribal payoff, and Grizzly Bears contributes to the Bear headcount that keeps Kudo's triggered abilities firing consistently.
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 |
In Commander, Grizzly Bears is playable only in Bear tribal decks — full stop. Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper all technically permit it, but it has seen zero meaningful play in any of those formats for decades; a 2/2 for two with no text has never cleared the bar in powered or even unpowered competitive environments. Pauper is where vanilla two-drops face the stiffest competition from commons that actually do something, so Grizzly Bears doesn't find a home there either. The honest read: Grizzly Bears is a Commander card, and only for the narrow slice of tribal builds where the creature type on the type line does the work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.23 cheap tier
At $2.23, Grizzly Bears sits at the expensive end of what a functionally unplayable card should cost — that price is entirely driven by collector nostalgia for one of the game's oldest cards, not by demand from competitive deckbuilders. Don't expect that premium to translate into utility; you're paying for history, not power.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Ruxa, Patient Professor
- Duskana, the Rage Mother
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
- Kudo, King Among Bears
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.