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Dr. Joseph M'Benga
Legendary Creature — Human Doctor
Other creatures you control with counters on them have hexproof. If you would put one or more counters on a creature you control, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that creature instead.
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“Double counters + hexproof for a growing, untouchable army.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Counters, Tokens, Sacrifice
Strategy
Dr. M'Benga is a counter-doubling engine that turns +1/+1 counters into a serious arms race. Your creatures get twice as many counters as normal, and they're hexproof as long as they're holding counters—so they dodge removal entirely. This means you can lean into aristocrat strategies that rely on +1/+1 counters (like persist creatures or proliferate effects) and watch them snowball into unblockable threats. The deck wins by growing a few key creatures to lethal damage while they're untouchable.
Your game plan is to get M'Benga out early, then layer in ways to pump counters onto creatures: cards like Doubling Season, Hardened Scales, or even simple effects like Ozolith or Conclave Mentor. Once your creatures are huge and hexproof, they clock your opponents down or enable sacrifice shenanigans. Since M'Benga is three mana and green's great at ramp, you'll often untap with him and start threatening quickly.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip Doubling Season (pricey) and use Hardened Scales, Ozolith, and Conclave Mentor instead; they're much cheaper and do similar work.
Signature Cards
- 1Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
- 2Kami of Whispered Hopes
- 3Primordial Hydra
- 4Managorger Hydra
- 5Benevolent Hydra
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