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Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {1}{G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander
What Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 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 · deathWhenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a 1/1 Food Golem artifact creature in addition to its other
- AbilityEach creature you control that's a Food or a Golem gets +2/+2 and has trample.
What a Brenard, Ginger Sculptor deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Brenard, Ginger Sculptor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 13× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 14× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 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 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
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.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Gideon's Memorial2 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Fanatical Devotion3 mana
- Martyr's Cause3 mana
- Greater Good4 mana
- Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Combos with Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Brenard, Ginger Sculptor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Eternal Scourge + Ashnod's Altar464 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Sam, Loyal Attendant + Farrelite Priest14 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Biovisionary + Echo Storm5 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Soldevi Simulacrum + Sam, Loyal Attendant5 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Phyrexian Altar4 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor + Sam, Loyal Attendant + Bog Initiate2 decks
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