IzzetLegendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian ArtificerBrudiclad, Telchor Engineer
Mana value6Rank#2,082
The Commander
Creature tokens you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 blue Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token. Then you may choose a token you control. If you do, each other token you control becomes a copy of that token.
Guide
Gameplan
Brudiclad turns a wide-but-weak board of tokens into an army of identical bombs each combat. You generate cheap tokens, copy options (powerful creature tokens or dangerous tokens like Dragons/Demons), then at combat use Brudiclad to transform every token into copies of your best one and swing for lethal with haste. The deck mulligans toward ramp into Brudiclad on turn 5-6 and a token to copy.
Strengths
- Explosive, instant turnaround: an unimpressive board becomes lethal in a single combat
- Built-in haste means copied tokens attack the turn they're made
- Flexible payload — copy a flier, a Blightsteel Colossus token, or even an opponent's token
- Free token every turn keeps the engine fueled even after board wipes
Weaknesses
- Brudiclad is a 6-mana glass cannon that telegraphs your plan; removal or a fog blanks the turn
- Heavily commander-dependent — without him the deck does little
- Board wipes and instant-speed spot removal during combat are backbreaking
- Needs a quality token to copy or the ability does nothing exciting
Key Cards
- Dockside Extortionist — Floods the board with Treasure tokens that Brudiclad can copy into your best creature for an army.
- Combat Celebrant — Copy every token into Celebrants, attack, exert one for an extra combat, then do it again for absurd damage.
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer — The entire deck is built around his combat-step copy ability and token haste anthem.
- Xenagos, God of Revels — Doubling the power of an attacking copied army with haste pushes through one-shot lethal damage.
- Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker — Generates extra copies of key creatures to feed Brudiclad and enables combo lines.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Dockside, Mana Crypt) to land Brudiclad earlier and free token generators like Hangarback Walker, Myr Battlesphere, or Ophiomancer to always have copy fodder. Include protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) so he survives to combat, and tutors plus copy enablers (Saheeli, Kiki-Jiki) to assemble explosive turns more reliably. Tighten the mana base and trim slow tokens that don't translate into a lethal copy target.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Transform all tokens into a powerful evasive or huge creature and swing for lethal commander/combat damage
- ▸Copy Combat Celebrant for repeated extra combats to kill the table in one turn
- ▸Make tokens copies of Blightsteel Colossus or a Dragon for fast, evasive one-shots
- ▸Voltron-style alpha strike augmented by Xenagos or other power doublers
Archetypes
- Tokens — He produces a token every combat and rewards going wide with copies of a premium body.
- Combo — Copying tokens into Combat Celebrant or untap effects enables extra-combat and infinite loops.
- Spellslinger/Tempo — Blue-red gives access to copy spells and instant-speed token makers to set up the perfect combat copy.
Combos
- Saheeli, Radiant Creator + Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Lightning Runner
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Mishra, Eminent One + Gonti's Aether Heart + Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Combat Celebrant + Rite of Replication
→ Infinite combat phases, Infinite damage
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Combat Celebrant + Cackling Counterpart
→ Infinite combat phases, Infinite damage
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Combat Celebrant + Quasiduplicate
→ Infinite combat phases, Infinite damage
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
