# Bears

- Format: Standard (casual 60-card constructed), intended for two players.
- Colors: green.
- List: [hob-bears.csv](hob-bears.csv). Sideboard: [sideboard.csv](sideboard.csv).
- Guide (Spanish): [guide_hob-bears.html](guide_hob-bears.html).
- Core source: The Hobbit.
- Support sources: Duskmourn, Marvel's Spider-Man and Avatar: The Last Airbender
  (Murders at Karlov Manor only in the sideboard).
- Status: proposal, not a record of cards removed from available inventory.

## Game plan

1. Deploy cheap threats early (Little Bear, Attercop) while accelerating
   with Wood Elves, Till and Tend and fetch-style lands.
2. Grow the board with landfall counters (Beorn's Hospitality, Dancing from
   Dark to Dawn) and Radagast's discount plus pseudo-flash.
3. Close with Gigantic Big Bear, which can't be countered and has hexproof
   and haste, or with an Overlord of the Hauntwoods once its time counters run
   out.

## Pull-pool tuning

- Added Attercop ×3 (deathtouch + landfall pump), Duskwatch Hunter
  (evasion + ETB counter), Troll Negotiations ×2 (counter pump + fight —
  the removal slot), Part in Friendship (recursion on death) and Hobbit
  Hole (extra fetch land) — all spare copies from the HOB pulls.
- Second pass: The Earth King (Bear token + mass ramp on attack with 4+
  power creatures), Thrór's Map (ETB fetch + repeatable looting — the
  card-flow slot) and Foggy Bottom Swamp (sac-draw land) replaced
  Ordinary Bear, the second Radagast, Thornspire Verge and Rumble Arena.
- Earlier trims: Ordinary Bear to 0, Quarrel, Aftermath Analyst and
  Daily Bugle Building out; Warg Tactics down to 3. Back to a flat 60.
- Third pass (mono-green mana, cheaper removal): Rocky Rebuke ×2 (TLA) and
  Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar (DSK) replaced Pick Your Poison and
  Troll Negotiations ×2 — instant-speed one-sided bites over 4-mana sorcery
  fights, plus replaying sacrificed fetch lands from the graveyard for
  landfall. Six off-color lands (Hedge Maze, Commercial District, Multiversal
  Passage, Foggy Bottom Swamp, Mirkwood ×2) became Forests: 14 basics for
  Wood Elves, The Earth King and the eight fetch lands to find.
- Fourth pass (removal): Kapow! x3 (SPM, +1/+1 counter and fight) replaced
  Part in Friendship, Duskwatch Hunter and one Attercop, which moved to the
  sideboard.
- Fifth pass (November Hobbit pulls): Quarrel x2 (HOB) replaced two Kapow!,
  which moved to the sideboard. Quarrel is the same one-sided bite as Rocky
  Rebuke: {1}{G} at instant speed, and the opponent's creature deals no damage
  back. That makes four bites plus one Kapow!.

## Sideboard

Twelve of the cut cards stay in the deck box ([sideboard.csv](sideboard.csv)):
Troll Negotiations ×2 and Pick Your Poison (swap in for Rocky Rebuke / the
card-flow slots against high-toughness or artifact/enchantment decks),
Mirkwood ×2 and Foggy Bottom Swamp (swap in for Forests to run four active
Mirkwood with a second black source), Multiversal Passage, Part in
Friendship, Duskwatch Hunter and Attercop from the fourth pass, and Kapow! ×2
from the fifth. Hedge Maze and
Commercial District were dropped entirely.

## List conventions

Same 24-column schema as the rest of the collection. Basic Forest quantities
are a planning convention, not a verified finish. `sideboard.csv` uses the
same schema and is rendered as a separate section by the build.