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Brawn, Amadeus Cho

Brawn, Amadeus Cho

Legendary Creature — Gamma Scientist Hero · {1}{G/U} · Green/Blue commander

When Brawn enters, draw a card. Power-up — {4}{G/U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Brawn for each card in your hand. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn.)
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What Brawn, Amadeus Cho actually does

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What a Brawn, Amadeus Cho deck wants

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Best cards for Brawn, Amadeus Cho

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Lilysplash Mentor4 mana
  7. Escape Protocol2 mana
  8. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Aerial Doombot1 mana
  2. Serpent Specialist1 mana
  3. Stature, Size Shifter1 mana
  4. Bold Biochemist2 mana
  5. Brawn, Amadeus Cho2 mana
  6. Goliath, Mass Manipulator2 mana
  7. White Tiger, Ava Ayala2 mana
  8. Gamma Grotesque3 mana

Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  3. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  4. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  5. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Sol Talisman0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Simic Growth Chamber0 mana
  4. Temple of Mystery0 mana
  5. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  6. Hedge Maze0 mana
  7. Lotus Field0 mana
  8. Riveteers Overlook0 mana

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

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  3. Cankerbloom2 mana
  4. Ripples of Potential2 mana
  5. Thrummingbird2 mana
  6. Thirsting Roots1 mana
  7. Evolution Sage3 mana
  8. Mossborn Hydra3 mana

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

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Simplify1 mana
  3. Filter Out3 mana
  4. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  5. Coercive Portal4 mana
  6. Needle Storm3 mana
  7. Whirlwind4 mana
  8. Whelming Wave4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

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