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Hate Bear

Low-cost creatures, usually one to three mana, that carry a disruptive static ability stapled onto a body, letting them attack and block while choking off an opponent's game plan. Drannith Magistrate stops casting from outside hand, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben taxes noncreature spells, Leonin Arbiter and Aven Mindcensor punish library searches, and Thalia, Heretic Cathar slows creatures and lands by making them enter tapped. The creature requirement is the defining trait. Distinct from ETB Hate, which shuts off enter-the-battlefield triggers and can live on noncreature permanents, and from Search Hate, which restricts library searches on any permanent type; a hate bear merely puts those effects on an efficient attacker.

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Also known as

  • hatebear
  • disruptive creature
  • tax creature
  • stax creature
  • prison creature
  • creature hate piece