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Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain · {4} · Colorless commander

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target non-Equipment artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn. Untap it.
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What Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel actually does

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

What a Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel deck needs

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

The Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel deck plan

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

Best cards for Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

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 of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Zuko's Exile5 mana
  7. Clay Golem4 mana
  8. Lazotep Quarry0 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  2. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  3. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  4. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  5. Shrine Steward5 mana
  6. Self-Assembler5 mana
  7. Pyre of Heroes2 mana
  8. Tamiyo's Journal5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  3. Karn's Sylex3 mana
  4. Calamity of the Titans6 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. The Moment2 mana
  7. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  8. Coercive Portal4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  4. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Tome of Legends2 mana
  8. Buster Sword3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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