Ayula's Influence is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Discard a land card: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.
Complete guide
Ayula's Influence is a powerful enchantment that allows you to turn excess land cards in your hand into a formidable army of Bear tokens. It provides incredible utility for decks that find themselves flooded with lands or those looking to weaponize their resource pool. By transforming non-active cards into a board presence, you can maintain pressure even when your draws aren't ideal.
What It Does
Ayula's Influence features an activated ability that costs nothing but the discard of a land card. Every time you discard a card with the 'land' type from your hand, you create a 2/2 green Bear creature token. This ability is an 'activated ability' and can be used at any time you have priority, just like an instant spell.
How It Resolves
When you announce the ability, you choose a land card from your hand and put it into your graveyard as the cost. This action goes on the stack and can be responded to by players. Once it resolves, a 2/2 green Bear token enters the battlefield. Since discarding is the cost, your opponent cannot cast a spell to discard your land card in response to prevent the token creation.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to activate the ability while another spell or ability is still resolving. For example, if an effect tells you to draw two cards and then discard two cards, you cannot stop in the middle of that process to activate Ayula's Influence. You must wait until the current effect is fully finished and a player has priority again.
When to Play It
This card is best utilized in strategies that can return lands from the graveyard to the hand or in decks that draw a high volume of cards. It is a fantastic 'mana sink' for the late game, ensuring that every draw remains a potential threat regardless of whether it is a spell or a Forest.
Interaction examples
BearWith Ayula's Influence on the battlefield, you discard a Forest from your hand. The ability triggers, and you place a 2/2 green Bear creature token onto the battlefield. You can repeat this process as many times as you have land cards available in your hand.
Sylvan LibraryDuring your draw step, Sylvan Library allows you to draw two extra cards. If you draw lands, you must first complete the Library's resolution (paying life or putting cards back). Once that is finished, you can then discard any lands remaining in your hand to Ayula's Influence to create Bear tokens before your main phase begins.
Garruk's UprisingIf Ayula's Influence creates a Bear that enters as a 4/4 (due to a buff effect), Garruk's Uprising will trigger, allowing you to draw a card. If that card is a land, you must wait for the Uprising's draw trigger to fully resolve before you can discard that new land to create another Bear.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Ayula's Influence
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect instructs you to draw cards and then discard cards, you can’t take actions in between. For example, if you have no cards in hand and cast Bazaar Trademage, you can’t activate Ayula’s Influence’s ability between the time you draw two cards and discard those cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
The Gitrog Monster + Dakmor Salvage + Ayula's Influence
- 1Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding Dakmor Salvage.
- 2Gitrog triggers, causing you to mill two cards and return Dakmor Salvage from your graveyard to your hand.
- 3Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 4Repeat.
Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Tranquil Thicket
- 1Activate Tranquil Thicket's cycling ability by paying
and discarding it. - 2Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve the Tranquil Thicket ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 5Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 6Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- 8Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding
.
Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Forgotten Cave
- 1Activate Forgotten Cave's cycling ability by paying
and discarding it. - 2Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve the Forgotten Cave ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 5Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 6Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- 8Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Slogurk, the Overslime + Aluren + Ayula's Influence
- 1Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 2Slogurk's first ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 3Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 4Repeat from step 1 two additional times.
- 5Activate Slogurk's second ability by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Slogurk leaves the battlefield, returning three lands from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Cast Slogurk by paying
. - 8Repeat.
Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Lonely Sandbar
- 1Activate Lonely Sandbar's cycling ability by paying
and discarding it. - 2Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve the Lonely Sandbar ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 5Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 6Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- 8Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Barren Moor
- 1Activate Barren Moor's cycling ability by paying
and discarding it. - 2Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve the Barren Moor ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 5Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 6Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- 8Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Secluded Steppe
- 1Activate Secluded Steppe's cycling ability by paying
and discarding it. - 2Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve the Secluded Steppe ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 5Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 6Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- 8Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Slogurk, the Overslime + Primal Prayers + Ayula's Influence + Decoction Module
- 1Activate Ayula's Influence by discarding a land card.
- 2Slogurk triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 3Resolve the Ayula's Influence ability, creating a 2/2 Bear creature token.
- 4When the Bear enters, Decoction Module triggers, causing you to get
. - 5Repeat from step 1 two additional times.
- 6Activate Slogurk by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
- 7When Slogurk leaves the battlefield, it triggers, returning three land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Cast Slogurk by paying due to Primal Prayers.
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