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Gigantic Big Bear

rare Creature — Bear

This spell can't be .

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D Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 51.5% −4.7 vs average 3,322 games

Win rates and picks

51.9% 8,200 games
Average pick ()
3.4

By deck

  • Ferocious Wolves 52.2% 1,914 games
  • Elf Landfall 52.4% 925 games

Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).

Reviews

Unlike a certain other big bear, Gigantic Big Bear is missing one very important keyword that stops it from being a ridiculous in The Hobbit. Can you tell which one? Ding, ding, ding! That's right! It's missing …. A 10/7 with is still good and catches opponents off guard, but the fact that this could just be blocked by an Attercop or a Ravening Warg and not get any damage through really holds it back.

Gigantic Big Bear: that puts 10 power onto the battlefield out of nowhere,but thankfully no so you can usually chump or stack block it. Sadly a major underperformer and not a very good card.

How to draft it

Trap. It's a 7-mana 10/7 with and but no . Any 1/1 can block it, and then none of the 10 damage reaches the opponent.

Roles in each deck

  • Ferocious Wolves Finisher

    Without this 10/7 can be chump-blocked by any small creature every turn, and 7 mana is late for a deck that wins fast. , and the can't-be- line fix neither problem.

    How to play it

    Leave it in the sideboard unless your deck is slow and has no other 5- or .

    Learn the Ferocious Wolves deck

  • Elf Landfall Finisher

    A 10/7 with and looks like a finisher, but it has no , so a single holds it off every turn. At 7 mana it also takes one of the two slots the deck has for cards that cost 6 or more.

    How to play it

    Take a spell or a instead, and play it only as a . Keep other creatures beside it, because Crude Bent Blade targets the player and they choose what to , so doesn't help.

    Learn the Elf Landfall deck

  • Beasts and Burn Finisher

    Without , its 10 power stops at one chump blocker a turn, and and don't change that. Drafters still take the 7-mana 10/7 around pick 3.

    How to play it

    Take or a good cheap creature over it. If it does make your deck, it needs to connect, which Wargling (switched on by the Bear's 10 power) or Beorn the Fierce's gives it.

    Learn the Beasts and Burn deck

  • Patchwork Midrange Finisher

    , and 10 power for 7 mana look unbeatable, but without any chump blocker stops it for a turn and a blocker kills it. Drafters still take it around pick 3, far earlier than its results justify.

    How to play it

    Take or a cheaper creature over it, and play it only as the single 7-drop in a slow deck with plenty of lands.

    Learn the Patchwork Midrange deck