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Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute

Legendary Creature — Human Berserker · {3}{R} · Red commander

Menace Whenever Casey Jones attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, Casey Jones deals that much damage to target opponent.

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What Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute 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 · attackWhenever Casey Jones attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature.
• Triggered ability · countersWhenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, Casey Jones deals that much damage to target opponent.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute deck needs

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

• creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute 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
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 17× 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
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute

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.

Combos with Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin2,783 decks
• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + The Red Terror1,373 decks
• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + Heliod, Sun-Crowned431 decks
• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + Archangel Of Thune133 decks
• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + Heroic Feast124 decks
• Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute + Cleric Class82 decks

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