![]() ![]() I had Bears on the brain when I set out to write this article, but the deeper I got into my topic, the fuzzier it became. The undercosted broken spells such as the Power 9 are the most iconic features of early design, but Grizzly Bears is among the most significant features of costing that design nailed on the head.Įven 28 years later, the 2/2 for 2 baseline holds true as a reasonable bear-o-meter of what a common 2-drop should be. “My Draft deck needed bears” translates to, “I didn’t have enough 2-drop creatures and would have the bear minimum in terms of quality.” As concepts like “mana curve” and “tempo” became more firmly established and discussed, people realized that “doing something” and deploying a threat on turn 2 led to success. ![]() So why do we call great 2-drops bears and not knights? It comes back to being a common printed in over a dozen consecutive core sets and people using the card (then a fixture of Limited play) as a point of reference. ![]() Nonetheless, 2-drop creatures have come a long way since the days when Knights were the best 2-drop creatures in the game. Even after 28 years of power creep, they don’t make ‘em like this any more… In formats they are legal, they are restricted to a single copy. These cards are pretty unreasonable and are banned in most formats. ![]()
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