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Not that bad, but unfortunately you can only use green mana to boost your creatures despite that guy being a 3/3 five-drop.

Nice card, nice flavour text. too bad we don't see this ability more often.

Not a bad place to dump mana when you're ready to start beating people senseless.

suddenly 1/1s become X+1/X+1s. All of your creatures are threats.

This is like turning every one of your creatures into a Frozen Shade... nasty. There are far worse cards you could have in your deck.

4/5

Everything becomes a shade.
Far better than most would give it credit for.

Shades in black are a win condition. You catch your foe when he or she has let their guard down, and swing for the win. The shade lurks on the edges of combat, easily pinging away life due to the constant threat of it becoming suddenly bigger than the creatures blocking it. But the shade ability in green? The colour of mana acceleration? It gets so much bigger, and so much scarier.

You have this (a 3/3), an elephant (3/3), and two 2/2s. It's the turn after you play this. You have six mana open. You swing at your opponent with everything. They have two 4/4s and a 1/1. What do they block? Nothing? 16 damage, potentially. Or 10 and you drop a blocker postcombat. Do they block something? They will lose a creature. You probably won't. This puts some serious pressure on your opponents, and can force them into making some sub-par choices.

Accelerate some mana, and you won't lose a creature to damage any time soon.

URSAPINES MAKE GREAT PETS.

This can certainly make blocking hard for your opponent!

Team up with Nantuko Mentor to go nuts. This guy doesn't NEED the mentor to be awesome, but Timmy likes overkill.

oh I get it, it's a bear porcupine so it's an ursapine!

Great card, but somehow every time I add one to a deck I end up taking it out soon after. I know this card deserves a spot but no matter what there is always a more synergistic card to add instead.

Ha, epic flavour.
Also, the card itself is pretty good, very balanced and very green. Can turn anyone in a fatty and with all mana ramp green offers, this can potentially turn 1/1 into 11/11. IT is balanced, since one Bolt to the face kills him anyhow, unelss you cast him later in game, when you have more mana.
4/5 for power, 4.5/5 for flavour and 4.5/5 for balance. Nice card, 4.5/5

I used to think this card sucked.... lol xD

Forget how good he is. This guy is adorable.

Hey now, if it wasn't for unfriendly Ursapines, the sponge-manufacturing business would have gone under long ago.

Aww...who's a good puppy.

a Green shade ability for all of your creatures is actually quite useful for green. Green often relies on heavy mana pools, and with ursapine, it allows you to make the most of your mana. Hell, it turns the simple Llanowar Elves into a T: target creature gets +1/+1 until the end of the turn.

Sure, its no reusable Giant Growth, it provides you with strategy. And if you have Om nom Omnath, or Upwelling, you can charge up for a psuedo-Overrun and deal massive damage.

I really do love this card, and I can't wait to get the chance to play it.

I think it finds a nice home with Viridian Joiner in EDH.