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Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero // Legendary Creature — Gamma Berserker Hero · {U} // {2}{R}{R}{G}{G} · Green/Red/Blue commander

{X}{X}, {T}: Draw X cards. Activate only as a sorcery. {2}{R}{R}{G}{G}: Transform Bruce Banner. Activate only as a sorcery. Reach, trample Enrage — Whenever The Incredible Hulk is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on him. If he's attacking, untap him and there is an additional combat phase after this phase.

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What Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk actually does

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

• Activated ability{X}{X}, {T}: Draw X cards. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Activated ability{2}{R}{R}{G}{G}: Transform Bruce Banner. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever The Incredible Hulk is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on him. If he's attacking, untap him and there is an additional combat phase after this phase.
• Keyword · reachreach
• Keyword · trampletrample

What a Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk deck needs

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

• extra combat phases and attackers that profit from them
• counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk deck plan

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

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 9× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 7× 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

Best cards for Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk

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