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Ellie, Brick Master

Legendary Creature — Human Survivor · {1}{R} · Red commander

Distract the Horde — Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 1/1 black Fungus Zombie creature token named Cordyceps Infected that's attacking that opponent. Partner—Survivors (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)

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What Ellie, Brick Master 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 a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 1/1 black Fungus Zombie creature token named Cordyceps Infected that's attacking that opponent.
• Keyword · distract the hordedistract the horde
• Keyword · partnerpartner
• AbilityPartner—Survivors

What an Ellie, Brick Master deck needs

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

• a Survivors partner
• go-wide attackers (each attack you make adds an attacking 1/1)

The Ellie, Brick Master deck plan

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

• 12× 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
• 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 16× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

Best cards for Ellie, Brick Master

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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