Ordinary Bear
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An efficiently sized 4/5 for four mana that dominates combat against smaller creatures and reliably enables Ferocious. It is a strong common in BG, though it offers no value if removed.
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Gameplay notes
Prioritize keeping it on the battlefield when your smaller creatures have Ferocious attack triggers; losing it before combat can disable several attacks at once. Its 5 toughness also makes it an excellent creature to pair with fight effects such as Quarrel.
Key synergies
Ordinary Bear reliably satisfies The Chief Warg's Ferocious condition, allowing each attack to draw a card while the Bear provides a sturdy attacker or blocker.
Ordinary Bear is an on-color, durable 4-power creature that reliably turns on the Rabbit's recurring +1/+1 counter trigger.
Keeping Ordinary Bear on the battlefield turns Wargling's attack trigger on, increasing Wargling's power and granting the entire attacking team trample.
Beorn's Bear anthem upgrades Ordinary Bear to a massive 6/7, and Ordinary Bear also helps reach the three-Bear threshold for Beorn's card-draw trigger.
Ordinary Bear's natural 4 power provides a straightforward Ferocious enabler, upgrading Nighthowl Pursuer into a 3/3 menace attacker.
Little Bear can flash in after Ordinary Bear attacks or becomes tapped, untapping it for defense and permanently growing it into a 5/6.