Ellie, Brick Master
Legendary Creature — Human Survivor
Distract the Horde — Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 1/1 black Fungus Zombie creature token named Cordyceps Infected that's attacking that opponent.
Partner—Survivors (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $5.69
- EDHREC rank
- #12792
Ellie, Brick Master turns every token you make into a renewable resource — creatures enter, bricks accumulate, and the deck starts drawing cards or generating mana off the pile. The payoff scales hard in go-wide strategies, and the three-mana cost means she lands before your board state is already threatened.
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 Ellie, Brick Master belongs — the 100-card singleton format rewards her steady brick accumulation across a long game, and token-focused commanders give her an engine to feed immediately. Legacy and Vintage are both technically legal but functionally irrelevant; the fair, incremental value she provides has no competitive footing in formats where games end on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant worth mentioning: a tokens-matter planeswalker pairing could use her as a reliable threat, though the faster clock makes her slower payoffs less reliable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Ellie, Brick Master's closest functional neighbors are cards that convert token production into card advantage or resource generation on a similarly low curve — Anointed Procession and Teleportation Circle adjacents won't replicate the brick mechanic, but Jaheira, Friend of the Forest and Cryptolith Rite cover the mana-from-creatures angle for under $2. Neither captures the snowballing counter dimension Ellie provides, so treat them as partial substitutes rather than direct replacements.
Price Context
Current price
$5.69 mid tier
At $5.69, Ellie, Brick Master sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to include speculatively but not a throwaway pickup. It's a reasonable buy-in for any dedicated token or Universes Beyond: Minecraft build where she's a near-auto-include rather than a fringe consideration.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.