Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute

Casey Jones is a simple but effective aggression engine that turns +1/+1 counters into direct damage. Your game plan is to attack early and often, using Casey's ability to pump your attacking creatures while simultaneously dealing damage to opponents. Every counter you place becomes a ping, so you're essentially doubling your damage output—once through combat and again through the triggered ability.

Build around cards that naturally generate +1/+1 counters: lords that pump your team, sacrifice outlets that double-dip on counter triggers, and creatures that enter with counters already on them. Cards like Hardened Scales and similar effects let you turn small increments into explosive turns. The deck wants to be a go-wide aggressive strategy, leveraging menace to punch through blockers while your counter synergies rack up incremental damage.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.