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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

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

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Brawn enters, draw a card.
• Activated ability{4}{G/U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Brawn for each card in your hand.
• Keyword · power-uppower-up

What a Brawn, Amadeus Cho deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• mana rocks and dorks beyond the curve (its ability turns spare mana into value)

The Brawn, Amadeus Cho deck plan

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

• 12× Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands
• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 9× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

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.

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