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Big Bertha

Big Bertha

Legendary Creature — Mutant Hero · {X}{G} · Green commander

Vigilance Big Bertha enters with X +1/+1 counters on her. {1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Big Bertha.
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What Big Bertha actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Big Bertha deck needs

Plays as voltron. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Big Bertha deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Big Bertha

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
  8. Ellywick Tumblestrum4 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  3. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  4. Genji Glove5 mana
  5. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Instill Energy1 mana
  8. Nature's Chosen1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  5. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  6. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  7. The Earth Crystal4 mana
  8. High Score3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Summoner's Pact0 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Elemental Bond3 mana
  8. Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Heritage Druid1 mana
  7. Llanowar Tribe3 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

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