Brawn
Creature — Incarnation
Trample
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #1837
Brawn turns every creature you control into a trample threat the moment it hits your graveyard — no mana tax, no activation, just a passive that stays on as long as the card sits in the bin. The cost is a single green three-drop that needs to die first, which most graveyard decks engineer without a second thought. Disa the Restless makes that condition trivially easy to meet, which is why Brawn shows up in nearly three-quarters of her builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless puts Brawn into the graveyard as a natural part of her Lhurgoyf-tutoring loop, so it's almost never a dead card — it either sets up the engine or it's already in the bin granting trample to the Lhurgoyf she just put into play.
Coram, the Undertaker
Coram, the Undertaker mills cards to fuel his damage-equal-to-power trigger, and Brawn sitting in the graveyard means the creature he's attacking with bulldozes through blockers instead of getting chump-blocked into irrelevance.
Thromok the Insatiable
Thromok the Insatiable devours your board to become an enormous single threat, and Brawn in the graveyard is the difference between that 20/20 getting double-blocked by tokens and it punching through for lethal.
Venom, Deadly Devourer
Venom, Deadly Devourer wants to swing wide with large creatures, and Brawn's passive ensures that board-wide trample is already covered without spending a card slot on Primal Rage or similar effects.
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets bigger as creatures fill the graveyard, and Brawn's condition — sitting in that same graveyard — is satisfied automatically as the engine does its job.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Brawn belongs. The graveyard-matters density of the format, combined with 100-card singleton rules that reward passive bonuses, makes Brawn a reliable one-card trample anthem rather than a situational trick. Legacy and Vintage permit it, but neither format has room for a do-nothing 3/3 that requires a setup step when actual threats end the game on turn two. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning — graveyard synergy commanders in that 60-card environment can exploit Brawn the same way EDH decks do, just faster.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Brawn is bulk — a card that does real work for essentially no financial investment. The effect is narrow enough that demand never spikes hard, so this price is stable; don't expect it to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.