Against the Odds: Ayula Bear Loam (Modern, Magic Online) 

In the future, when you see Seth punting, remember that he once beat Hogaak while it was still unbanned using Ayula, bear tokens, and Arboreal Grazer. Sometimes, he's alright.

Deck: Is running a Loam Strategy Ren & Six: I am about to empty this mans entire wallet.

Assembling ursatron is easier than you might think

Opponent: literally just two mana leaks Seth: MANA LEAK TRIBAL ALL THE LEAKS IN THE WEST

Who would win in a fight? -A giant undead monstrosity, composed of thousands of corpses and powered by unholy spellcraft -Less than eight f*cking bears

9:53 The moment you start beating Hogaak with bears. Literal BEARS! Few things could be sweeter!

Hogaak: oh? you're approaching me? instead of running away, you'r coming right to me? Ayula: I can't bear the shit out of you without getting closer

The lack of attacks with Arboreal Grazers on an open board is just about unforgivable.

Now we need a Sword of Bear and Bear

Hey it's Seth. Probably better known as Snow-Covered Olive.

The third deck is Temur Midrange! Centered on Goyf, Huntmaster, JtMS, and basic blue control. Its just a fair deck that looks to grind like the olden days of Modern.

This deck really helped show off why Wrenn and Six is so strong...and expensive. The deck seems like a lot of fun! It works! Reminds me a little bit of the Swans and Seismic Assault.

Isn't Ayula's Influence kinda weird? The flavor is pretty clear, she leaves clawmarks on rocks that turn the rocks into bears that defend her territory. But the bears don't have an elemental creature type. They're regular bears. Fully formed adult bears that weren't raised as a cub. How do they know how to behave? Can they communicate with normal bears? How do they fit into bear culture? Is there discrimination against them? Can they reproduce? What DNA do they even have?

"Not just bearly, we kinda crushed them." -Saphron Olive

Hogaak: "This is unbearable." I could bearely take it, man.

Thank you so much for this deck, Seth! Definitely will be talking it up on a future episode of Masters of Modern! Alex is all about Ayula's Influence + Loam and W&6, but adding in the Queen herself seems a stroke of genius!

"Arboreal Grazer is probably the worst. Untap." *draws second Arboreal Grazer* "Oh God...."

When Seth does not realize he faced the same Gaak opponent twice and beat him... TWICE

10:40 well of course bears would beat hogaak , it was fortold in game knights

we don't even have to ban Hogaak anymore

Hogaak was bearied in card advantage.

I just finished watching the Yarok deck where you talked crap about grazer for 3 hrs 😂. I know it's better with Wrenn and $ix but it's still funny

Hogaak can't bust the bearicade!

I think Commune With the Gods could be a nice addition to the deck, it digs a lot for exactly the things you're searching. Plus, it puts things in the gy to give targets to Life From The Loam and grabs some notable sideboard cards

Ayula confirmed hard counter vs. Hogaak.

B&R announcement Modern: No changes It's come to our attention that modern can bear hogaak.

As I understand it, Ayula paired with the Ayula's influence enchantment gives you access rapid fire, zero-cost (just discard a land) projectile bear 2/2s to launch across your opponent's entire board until it's clear, OR buff the bears with counters and THEN fight, and then if Ayula isn't summonsick you can pump counters until she has lethal with one swing. Crazy combo, thank you for the gameplay.

Meryn MTG was on this a month ago! Also, needs more Sisemic Assault!

Ah yes bears vs the best deck in modern; this is the content I come for.

15:12 Ahh... the old... Hogaak Transformational Sideboard Plan into a Mill deck Strategy... that ol' gem... I guess...

Should have been called something like "Build a Bear Loam." :P

This deck does a lot of stuff I've wanted to see happen.

I almost fell out of my seat when you got Archive Trapped out of the Hogaak deck

The Chandras never.. came out? Kinda seemed like dead cards in your hand

It's the Bear Wrenn Six and Loam, the Hogaak killing Bear Wrenn Loam of life!

For that burn match up I suppose that their is a reason why Smokey the Bear is a staunch advocate for forest fire prevention!

Pop corn time => That was awesome Seth !

I dont get the grazer in this deck. It removes lands from your hand which is also where you want them for ayulas influence. Seems bad after turn 2

32:21 "not just BEARLY"

I was wondering whether a conflagrate or two could be used over the blood moons

I LOVE this deck. I am obsessed with ayula

courser of kruphix seems like it would be pretty good in this deck

if this is the reason Hogaak stays unbanned I'll tell you hwhat.

32:21 Is that a bear pun? Tomer would be so proud!

I would play the Amonkhet duals in this deck over Forgotten Cave.

When ayula first came out i said to my good friend and local spike my one dream is for this card to be conpetitive in modern, he said keep dreaming. The ayula dream is alive.

Of course this deck will be good. It's running wren and six.

Every time I’ve ever seen Ayala played against Hogaak, she has always won. It’s kind of crazy.

"We got him not just bearly". I saw what you did there.

YES! Had to stop the video after the first win to write a happy note! Oboy! Did that first win against hooks feeel goood🥰🤓😎

I feel bad for anyone getting I to magic now, so many amazing cards that cost so much money. Most of them are lands...

This deck looks so much fun. Really want to try it too

That first game made me so happy!

Please make another video with this deck. I love to see the beating of hogaak with this deck🔥

Was awesome to see Ayula blow out Hogaak...twice! XD

Wait........what....mind blown

*Takes down Hogaak with bears* But this does put a smile on my face

THE SPELLING of "Ayula" --(the title above is the correct spelling)--is INCORRECT on the background graphic of the intro segment. Made her name look weird as hell hahah "AUYLA" sounds like "A-Yula, that's just one yoo-lah."

Burn player: draws 3 non-burn spells in a row game 1 Seth: maybe we got a little unlucky? Though to be fair that game 2 draw from the opponent was bonkers in the matchup.

The.. Bear Necessi-trees, Against the Odds necessities

Putin After watching this: “ Hold my Bear”

Seth: Arboreal Grazer is such a bad card! Also Seth: let's play it in modern!

Bear beatdown! Sweet deck!

1:00 deck name says Auyla Bear Loam.... not sure why I focused on this. Drove me nuts tho

Seth: "... and if we already have Big Bears..." Me: BIG BEARS? Super Trooper scenes flash in my head.

Is it just me or does Seth share his opinion more often? It’s cool

man ayula's text is so dope. if "bear" was replaced with "human" or "elf" or honestly half the creature types in the game, it would be so busted. did you ever try to build an ayula + arcane adaptation deck? seems like that would be fun too, maybe a bit jankier but you know

After game 1 match 1 I think this might just be my favorite deck. Though you totally missed a chance to stay hogaak just couldn't bear it.

Game one you could've pumped up the 6/6 bear again, then had it fight hogaak, and been in an even better spot. Although proof Ayula is just so good Hogaak can't do anything against it.

I've been waiting for this deck!!

I usually go to bed and watch some skyrim videos or so but i always wake up to Seths videos paused at the ending OwO

"not just Bearly, we kinda crushed them."

Not knowing the first thing about Modern, that title was enough for me to say what the fuck I have to hear about this deck.

It cracks me up how Seth pronounces Ayula because it sounds like someone who just found out the word "uvula".

*opponent casts second mana leak* "boy! mana leak tribal! all the leaks in the west!"

Loved it chuckled when you killed hogaak

Dang Seth, you were so close to a 4-1 or 5-0. Just bear-ly missed it.

Seth! Please do a new Ayula deck, post-Hogaak! I really wanna make this deck work as a fun outsider modern deck.

Bear necesities the simple bear necesities 🎶🎵

i thought this was a budget magic, until i heard " with life from the loam and wrenn and six"

Hmmm... since the mana required is quite low, maybe you don't need to have 4 copies of Grazer?

Bear Force 6 is the perfect name for this deck, missed opportunity Sethy.

The Gaak assassination! :D

Um werebear is great

the ammount of times you Astrolabe into astrolabe is definitely interesting

Urza vs. Ursa

The only bear that was a travesty for being missing is *River Bear* ; assassin of dirty Blue Mages over all the Multiverse!

THE GAK ASSASSIN HAS ARISEN

3rd punt noticed: love this deck idea. Lol

Did you make it to Europe? Personally I would choose to go there instead of Vegas...really means something to your family

It must feel so good to beat Hogaak.

Who'd guess bears were known for eating cadavers so efficiently...

2nd punt noticed: this deck could really use autumns/summers veil, cavern of souls.

57:49 youre welcome

Just imagine if Ayula were a human with human synergy instead of bear synergy. Bears being bad really hurts the card.

Can you not stack counters on ayula at instant speed? Am I missing something? Against burn you attack in and he likely doesn’t block. Doesn’t it make it an instant speed kill?

Soooooo does this deck look better after the Hogaak and Looting banning?

32:20 "And not just bear-ly..."

I could see satyr wayfinder and hogaak in this deck

Wouldn't Blue be a better color to support this deck than Red? Counters, Ice-Fang Coatl...