Probably the next best after Words of War, not least because green seems to be the #2 colour for card drawing these days.
majinara
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Fun with Slate of Ancestry. The more bears you create with this card, the more cards draws you the slate, the more bears you can create with this. ^^
Cyberium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
In enchantress deck, it's common to draw 4+ cards for every enchantment you cast. An army of more than twenty 2/2 can sink most opponents. Wrath of God? Get another twenty out in one turn. Run out of enchantments to play? Words of Wind.
4/5
Mortal-Rot
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
i love this card, its just so good and hilarious. i've figured out an infinate combo with this card and a few others. Words of Wilding Garruk's Packleader Mana Echoes and Gaea's anthem (or similar effects that give your creatures a boost to attack)
the Word's read; whenever you would draw a card you may instead pay 1 and put in a 2/2 bear. the Anthem would make it a power of 3 so the Packleader triggers and draws you a card, but then you also choose "Bear" so Echoes adds 1 or however many. you use that mana to spend on the Word's that the Packleader triggered and another 3/3 Bear comes in. draw a card, add mana, than bea etc etc. :)
Mephastopheles
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
How about this with Wirewood Savage and Conspire (naming 'beast')? pay x, get x 2/2 Bear Beasts!
Sironos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Ever wanted to have a deck with only grizzly bears? Well, GUESS WHAT!
RuscoJames
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@majinara Eventually you won't have enough mana to replace all of the draws, add elf mana ramp to support it as well as Elvish Visionary
You can even add Bearscape to the combo to utilize the unused cards you discard. Grizzly Fate would also be good because of how easily you could hit threshold with slate of ancestry, but also because of the flashback if you end up discarding it.
axiobeta
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This and Fecundity + a sac outlet for safety One single, absolutely* indestructible and infallible bear.
*dies to split second BUT YOU CAN MAKE ANOTHER ::::D UMAD nope.jpg
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why yes, I would like to replace my every card draw with a bear! If you're afraid of crippling your card draw that way, there's always Oracle of Mul Daya or Magus of the Future.
Great way to keep from decking yourself with Damia, Sage of Stone, in case your Ulamog and Elixir of Immortality are nowhere to be found, plus it gives you an army, fun card.
ChumleyX
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Best when combined with Sylvan Library. With it you can avoid negative card draw and/or create up to 3x Grizzly Bears per turn for only three mana. Very efficient!
Got extra Sylvans in your hand? No problem! Two allow you to create up to 5x bears per turn. Three net you 7x bears, and so on. Normally extra Sylvans on the board are useless, but with the draw replacement of this card, you can use (abuse?) all of them. I've got a bear deck working off of this very concept and it's a load of fun.
You sacrifice a creature to the Altar, which triggers Fecundity. You replace the draw with one mana you got from the Altar, then you sacrifice the bear for another two mana. You then replace draw with another bear, and continue the cycle.
Either wait for next turn's draw or sacrifice a creature to the Altar to get it started. Sacrificed creature adds (2) and both copies of Fecundity activate. Pay (1) for each draw and get 2x 2/2 bears. Sac one bear, get two more, infinite times.
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4/5
the Word's read; whenever you would draw a card you may instead pay 1 and put in a 2/2 bear. the Anthem would make it a power of 3 so the Packleader triggers and draws you a card, but then you also choose "Bear" so Echoes adds 1 or however many. you use that mana to spend on the Word's that the Packleader triggered and another 3/3 Bear comes in. draw a card, add mana, than bea etc etc. :)
Eventually you won't have enough mana to replace all of the draws, add elf mana ramp to support it as well as Elvish Visionary
You can even add Bearscape to the combo to utilize the unused cards you discard.
Grizzly Fate would also be good because of how easily you could hit threshold with slate of ancestry, but also because of the flashback if you end up discarding it.
One single, absolutely* indestructible and infallible bear.
*dies to split second BUT YOU CAN MAKE ANOTHER ::::D UMAD nope.jpg
If you're afraid of crippling your card draw that way, there's always Oracle of Mul Daya or Magus of the Future.
Got extra Sylvans in your hand? No problem! Two allow you to create up to 5x bears per turn. Three net you 7x bears, and so on. Normally extra Sylvans on the board are useless, but with the draw replacement of this card, you can use (abuse?) all of them. I've got a bear deck working off of this very concept and it's a load of fun.
Fecundity + Ashnod's Altar + This = Infinite Colorless Mana and Bears?
You sacrifice a creature to the Altar, which triggers Fecundity. You replace the draw with one mana you got from the Altar, then you sacrifice the bear for another two mana. You then replace draw with another bear, and continue the cycle.
Sounds good to me.
Either wait for next turn's draw or sacrifice a creature to the Altar to get it started. Sacrificed creature adds (2) and both copies of Fecundity activate. Pay (1) for each draw and get 2x 2/2 bears. Sac one bear, get two more, infinite times.
Add Goblin Bombardment for Infinite ping damage or Altar of Dementia for infinite mill.
Also works well with Skyshroud Elf for Infinite R or W mana. And Banefire makes for an uncounterable fireball.