Large Bear
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Large Bear is a premium five-drop: a 5/5 with haste and trample immediately pressures life totals, while reach makes it excellent at stabilizing against flyers. It is one of BG's best reliable Ferocious enablers and a strong reason to play either green or black.
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Play around this
At five mana, keep a sufficiently large blocker or instant-speed answer available rather than assuming an empty opposing board cannot produce a major attack; trample makes small chump blockers unreliable.
Gameplay notes
Cast Large Bear before combat when it will enable Ferocious attack triggers. Reach often makes it correct to hold back against a dangerous flyer when racing is unfavorable, but haste and trample usually reward attacking immediately when the opponent cannot trade cleanly.
Key synergies
Beorn's Bear anthem makes Large Bear a hasty 7/7 trampler, and Large Bear increases the Bear count toward Beorn's three-Bear card-draw trigger.
Casting Large Bear before combat turns on Ferocious immediately, allowing The Chief Warg's attack trigger to draw a card that same turn.
Radagast reduces Large Bear's cost from five mana to three, producing an exceptionally efficient 5/5 haste threat and leaving mana available for another play.
Large Bear supplies the required 4-power creature before combat, upgrading Nighthowl Pursuer from a 1/1 into a 3/3 menace attacker while Large Bear also attacks with haste.
Large Bear's 5 power immediately enables Ferocious, while its haste creates pressure the same turn the Rabbit begins growing.