Commander - Everything Brago (read explanation)

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Control Combo

 **Add to the list: Nanogene Conversionimage, Preston, the Vanisherimage, Steal Enchantmentimage, Curator's Wardimage, Mocking Doppelgangerimage, Suncleanserimage, Iridescent Drakeimage, Monstrosity of the Lakeimage, Flesh Duplicateimage, Bronzebeak Foragersimage, Eriette's Tempting Appleimage, Hero of Bretagardimage, Inherited Envelopeimage, Gadwick's First Due, War of the Last Allianceimage, Sovereign of Lost Alara, Aqueous Formimage, Awesome Presenceimage, Sword Coast Sailorimage, Extraordinary Journeyimage, Mesmerizing Benthidimage, Slagstone Refineryimage, Scampering Surveyorimage

 

NOTE: The Mainboard has everything I think works exceptionally well with Brago, or is super fun, while the Maybeboard is everything else I can think of that should be in consideration for use in a Brago deck, pending your desired theme.  If you can think of anything I am missing, feel free to let me know so I can add it to the list!  :)

Remember that once Brago is able to trigger every turn, Sagas and Planeswalkers can be flickered each turn to get two uses per turn, except once Sagas are established in play you'll get lore 1 during your second main phase, and lore 2 during the first main phase of your next turn.  This makes a card like Fall of the Thran very powerful, removing all lands after Brago's flicker, and only bringing lands back temporarily at the start of your turn, before destroying them again later that turn... and if coupled with Consulate Crackdown you can remove all your opponents' mana rocks as well.  Add in Rishadan Footpad and they'll be sacrificing permanents, or be that much more mana-limited.  Cards with cumulative upkeep or fading counters can likewise have their counters wiped away or refreshed, making cards like Mystic Remora or Parallax Tide/Wave that much more valuable.  Brago can also reset creatures with undying or persist that have acquired a +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter, removing it and allowing them to safely die again and return to the BF (making Cauldron of Souls a must-have if you're running enough creatures).

Cards worth a little extra consideration (besides the obvious ones):

Recruiter of the Guardimage can search for Ranger of Eosimage, then each can go find even better creatures, like Mother of Runesimage and Giver of Runesimage, Spellskiteimage, etc.

Teferi's Time Twistimage is a unique card, as it's currently the only instant spell flicker option that can target any permanent and delay the target's re-entry (and potential ETB trigger) until the end of the turn, which can avoid the usual targeted removal, as well as avoid board wipes or mass removal that doesn't target.  That option to save Brago from a board wipe can lead to a quick recovery and overwhelming victory if you have the right options in your hand, as he'll be primed to flicker your board on your next turn, likely with not enough flying blockers to worry about for at least a couple of turns.  Or maybe flicker another strategic piece we can't afford losing, or would have trouble bringing back from the grave.  It's the only card like this that can save any permanent from any kind of removal.  Period.  Cool.  Dig it.

Fall of the Thranimage is pretty much game over with Brago flickering it, ideally with some mana rocks in play.  It also promotes decking indestructible lands, just in case.  Winds of Abandonimage pairs well with it too... wipe creatures, then wipe lands.

Mangara's Tomeimage can make for a quick win if you are prepared to draw 3+ cards pretty soon after it hits the battlefield, as it'll be a prime removal target as soon as you find your five cards.  Since it can theoretically be flickered and recharged with five new cards, say with Brago, or Teferi's Time Twist, it can be a steady stream of cards you've searched for, until it gets removed.  But if it's removed, so are your cards, so choose wisely.

Glowing Anenome and Aven Fogbringerimage look pretty tame and lame, except if you flicker it every turn with Brago, and keep targeting the same player, you are effectively freezing that player's land count on the battlefield until they can remove Anenome/Fogbringer, or unless they can cheat extra lands into play.  It's going to pull out removal from the targeted player, but if you slowing down that player benefits other players, you might find support from their counterspells to keep it in play... and if this can draw out both removal and counterspells from your opponents while staying in play, what more can you ask for...??  These cards can easily work into table politics and making deals with opponents.

Cataclysmic Gearhulkimage is essentially Cataclysmimage on a stick, except it lets everyone keep a planeswalker and it doesn't affect lands.  With Brago's ability to flicker, that can leave you with a LOT to work with (like keeping Kiora Bests the Sea Godimage, etc), and your opponents with seemingly less.  And with Cataclysm it can be even crazier, because dropping everyone down to one land will disable most all your opponents, even though they'll likely also be keeping a mana rock for their atifact.  But with Brago you get to flicker your mana rock, getting to use it twice.  Say that rock is Chromatic Orreryimage... that's +10 mana every turn, of any colors, or even if it's Gilded Lotus you're still getting +6 mana each turn.  That can be seriously game-changing in your favor.

With Brago and Illithid Harvesterimage in play, no one is likely to risk attacking/tapping their creatures much.  Mana dorks become risky ramp to use/abuse, or they risk losing it.  Even just using Illithid's adventure spell with a few targets is handy, since you'll have until next turn to cast Illithid harvester before they untap... or if you draw and cast it later in the game you get to hit a bunch more creatures.  Either way, once in play with Brago, Illithid will control much of the board.  It's probably Isshin's worst nightmare (unless their creatures have vigilance...  ;)

If you're doing a creature token generating version of Brago, Kindred Discoveryimage becomes quite valuable since it has an ETB trigger, not a creature-cast trigger.  In most versions of Brago that I build I put Whirler Rogues and Kiora Bests the Sea Godimage in at a minimum, so a couple flicker sources are often avaialble to regularly create tokens.  And getting to flicker Kindred Discovery means you can change it to whatever creature you plan to cast next in your second main phase.  Its easy to use, with room to abuse.

Shrine Stewardimage makes it an intriguing idea to run the (currently) six blue and white shrines available.  Shrine Steward is super easy to tutor for in both blue and white, so it wouldn't be hard to build around it, or incorporate it into an artifact and enchantment version of Brago.

Sludge Monsterimage is insanely good with Brago!  Each of your turns you get to turn two of your opponents' creatures into 2/2 crits with no abilities... buhbye commanders!  Or any other important creatures.....

Of all the blue Mages that let you search for artifacts of various costs, Treasure Mageimage is probably the one that could get the most attention from Brago, as there are a lot of artifacts and artifact creatures that cost 6cc or more that are very much worth a tutor for!  Even if you deck only has two, they are probably crazy good!  But with blue and white it's easy to scheme up artifact-based decks that this would be amazing in!

 

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Commander - 1 cards (1 distinct)

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