GreenLegendary Creature — Centaur ScoutBraulios of Pheres Band
Mana value5Rank#10,192
The Commander
Braulios's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Whenever Braulios attacks, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp hard, flood the board with lands, and turn Braulios into a massive *-power beater that draws cards and free-drops extra lands every time he swings. You play out cheap ramp and land-fetch early, deploy Braulios around turn 4-5, and snowball card advantage plus board size until you crash in for lethal or grind opponents out with sheer resources.
Strengths
- Self-sufficient card advantage and free land drops on every attack
- Scales naturally with lands, getting huge in any landfall/ramp shell
- Mono-green ramp makes for explosive starts and consistent mana
- Cheap to recast and refuels your hand to fight through interaction
Weaknesses
- P/T tied to lands makes him vulnerable to mass land destruction or Armageddon
- Mono-green struggles with interaction, flyers, and removing problem permanents
- Needs to attack to generate value, so blockers and pillow-fort slow him down
- Removal-heavy tables can keep recasting him expensive and tempo-negative
Key Cards
- Burgeoning — Lets you dump multiple lands per turn, accelerating Braulios's size and your ramp wildly.
- Exploration — Doubles your land drops to fuel both attack triggers and raw board development.
- Crucible of Worlds — Replays fetched and discarded lands, ensuring you always have a land to drop on attack.
- Rampaging Baloths — Turns each land you drop into a 4/4 Beast, converting Braulios's triggers into a token army.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — With a high land count and tokens, it ends the game out of nowhere via overrun.
- Field of the Dead — Your sky-high land count makes Zombie tokens trivial to generate as a backup engine.
Upgrade Path
Add trample and protection (Rancor, Snakeskin Veil, Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) so Braulios reliably connects and survives removal. Tighten the mana with efficient ramp and land-fetch (Sakura-Tribe Elder, Three Visits, Nature's Lore, Crucible loops) plus landfall payoffs like Scute Swarm and Avenger of Zendikar. Top off with Craterhoof Behemoth, Finale of Devastation, and a Reliquary Tower/Kozilek's Command package to weaponize the explosive card draw.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Connecting with a giant trampling Braulios for lethal commander damage
- ▸Overrun finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth or Pathbreaker Ibex with a wide board
- ▸Grinding out card advantage until you deploy an unanswerable threat
- ▸Field of the Dead / token swarms going wide
Archetypes
- Lands / Landfall — Braulios rewards maximizing land drops with size, draw, and landfall payoffs.
- Ramp / Big Mana — His scaling body and free lands feed into casting huge green threats early.
- Voltron — A commander whose power equals your lands can one-shot or commander-damage opponents with trample enablers.
- Tokens — Landfall token makers like Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar turn lands into a wide board.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
