Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute

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Casey Jones is a 4/2 menace legendary that distributes +1/+1 counters to attackers on attack, then converts any +1/+1 counter placement on your creatures into direct face damage equal to the counters placed — creating a dual engine of board growth and burn. Signature in red aggro and counters-voltron shells where stacking counters quickly translates to lethal damage; his 4/2 body is fragile but the triggered burn makes him a must-answer threat in 1v1 Brawl especially.

• Casey Jones's second trigger fires for ANY +1/+1 counter placement on your creatures — not just from his own attack trigger — so he combos explosively with cards like Forgotten Ancient, Solidarity of Heroes, or any proliferate effect.

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• In a wide-board attack with multiple creatures, if multiple creatures each receive a counter from Casey's attack trigger (via other copy effects or multiple triggers), each placement fires the burn trigger separately, but his own attack trigger hits only one target at a time.

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• Because his burn trigger counts 'that much damage' equal to the number of counters placed at once, a single doubling effect (e.g. Hardened Scales or Branching Evolution) effectively doubles both the counters AND the burn damage from that placement.

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• EDHREC rank: #8,679