Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk - Combos & Interactions

Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk role: Hulk converts Charger's attack-trigger damage into the next combat.

Rules notes: Verified Oracle facts: The repository and current Scryfall Oracle agree on both faces, including one +1/+1 counter per resolving Enrage trigger. Official MDFC Commander rules: This modal transforming double-faced card is one commander. Either face may be cast from the command zone, prior command-zone casts create one shared commander-tax count, and both faces share one commander-damage identity. Face characteristics: Use the chosen/current face on the stack and battlefield. Outside those zones, use the front face unless a specific MDFC rule says otherwise. Transformation continuity: Transforming keeps the same permanent, commander identity, controller, tapped state, counters, marked damage, attachments, and control-duration history. It neither re-enters nor triggers ETBs. Bruce draw activation: Choose X, then {X}{X} contributes twice X generic mana. X=0 is legal; the ability taps Bruce, follows summoning-sickness rules, and may be activated only at sorcery timing. Activated-cost reduction and copying: A reducer changes the resulting generic activation cost, not X. A copied draw activation keeps the original X without paying {X}{X} or tapping Bruce again. Copied transform instructions: Current rule 701.27f allows only the first resolving copy/original from that stack sequence to transform the permanent; later copies do nothing because it has transformed since the ability was put on the stack. This resolves a conflict in the supplied research. Moonmist tradeoff: Moonmist can transform front-face Bruce because he is Human. It prevents most combat damage that turn, but not noncombat damage such as Caltrops. Enrage damage events: Positive combat or noncombat damage creates a trigger; fully prevented damage does not. Several sources dealing damage simultaneously form one damage event and one trigger, while separate events trigger separately. Attack-state and lethal damage: The counter does not require attacking. Untap and the additional combat do. If lethal damage removes Hulk before resolution, no counter or untap occurs, while the official attacking-object ruling preserves the additional combat. Official source conflict: Oracle says one counter. A release-note explanation says three in a lethal-damage example. The verifier resolves the conflict in favor of Oracle without deleting the conflicting note.

Last reviewed: Aug 22, 2026

Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk role: Hulk converts the Arsonist attack-trigger damage into the next combat.

Rules notes: Verified Oracle facts: The repository and current Scryfall Oracle agree on both faces, including one +1/+1 counter per resolving Enrage trigger. Official MDFC Commander rules: This modal transforming double-faced card is one commander. Either face may be cast from the command zone, prior command-zone casts create one shared commander-tax count, and both faces share one commander-damage identity. Face characteristics: Use the chosen/current face on the stack and battlefield. Outside those zones, use the front face unless a specific MDFC rule says otherwise. Transformation continuity: Transforming keeps the same permanent, commander identity, controller, tapped state, counters, marked damage, attachments, and control-duration history. It neither re-enters nor triggers ETBs. Bruce draw activation: Choose X, then {X}{X} contributes twice X generic mana. X=0 is legal; the ability taps Bruce, follows summoning-sickness rules, and may be activated only at sorcery timing. Activated-cost reduction and copying: A reducer changes the resulting generic activation cost, not X. A copied draw activation keeps the original X without paying {X}{X} or tapping Bruce again. Copied transform instructions: Current rule 701.27f allows only the first resolving copy/original from that stack sequence to transform the permanent; later copies do nothing because it has transformed since the ability was put on the stack. This resolves a conflict in the supplied research. Moonmist tradeoff: Moonmist can transform front-face Bruce because he is Human. It prevents most combat damage that turn, but not noncombat damage such as Caltrops. Enrage damage events: Positive combat or noncombat damage creates a trigger; fully prevented damage does not. Several sources dealing damage simultaneously form one damage event and one trigger, while separate events trigger separately. Attack-state and lethal damage: The counter does not require attacking. Untap and the additional combat do. If lethal damage removes Hulk before resolution, no counter or untap occurs, while the official attacking-object ruling preserves the additional combat. Official source conflict: Oracle says one counter. A release-note explanation says three in a lethal-damage example. The verifier resolves the conflict in favor of Oracle without deleting the conflicting note.

Last reviewed: Aug 22, 2026

Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk role: Hulk supplies the damage trigger and extra combat.

Rules notes: Verified Oracle facts: The repository and current Scryfall Oracle agree on both faces, including one +1/+1 counter per resolving Enrage trigger. Official MDFC Commander rules: This modal transforming double-faced card is one commander. Either face may be cast from the command zone, prior command-zone casts create one shared commander-tax count, and both faces share one commander-damage identity. Face characteristics: Use the chosen/current face on the stack and battlefield. Outside those zones, use the front face unless a specific MDFC rule says otherwise. Transformation continuity: Transforming keeps the same permanent, commander identity, controller, tapped state, counters, marked damage, attachments, and control-duration history. It neither re-enters nor triggers ETBs. Bruce draw activation: Choose X, then {X}{X} contributes twice X generic mana. X=0 is legal; the ability taps Bruce, follows summoning-sickness rules, and may be activated only at sorcery timing. Activated-cost reduction and copying: A reducer changes the resulting generic activation cost, not X. A copied draw activation keeps the original X without paying {X}{X} or tapping Bruce again. Copied transform instructions: Current rule 701.27f allows only the first resolving copy/original from that stack sequence to transform the permanent; later copies do nothing because it has transformed since the ability was put on the stack. This resolves a conflict in the supplied research. Moonmist tradeoff: Moonmist can transform front-face Bruce because he is Human. It prevents most combat damage that turn, but not noncombat damage such as Caltrops. Enrage damage events: Positive combat or noncombat damage creates a trigger; fully prevented damage does not. Several sources dealing damage simultaneously form one damage event and one trigger, while separate events trigger separately. Attack-state and lethal damage: The counter does not require attacking. Untap and the additional combat do. If lethal damage removes Hulk before resolution, no counter or untap occurs, while the official attacking-object ruling preserves the additional combat. Official source conflict: Oracle says one counter. A release-note explanation says three in a lethal-damage example. The verifier resolves the conflict in favor of Oracle without deleting the conflicting note.

Last reviewed: Aug 22, 2026

Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk role: Attacking Hulk converts Desert damage into the next combat.

Rules notes: Verified Oracle facts: The repository and current Scryfall Oracle agree on both faces, including one +1/+1 counter per resolving Enrage trigger. Official MDFC Commander rules: This modal transforming double-faced card is one commander. Either face may be cast from the command zone, prior command-zone casts create one shared commander-tax count, and both faces share one commander-damage identity. Face characteristics: Use the chosen/current face on the stack and battlefield. Outside those zones, use the front face unless a specific MDFC rule says otherwise. Transformation continuity: Transforming keeps the same permanent, commander identity, controller, tapped state, counters, marked damage, attachments, and control-duration history. It neither re-enters nor triggers ETBs. Bruce draw activation: Choose X, then {X}{X} contributes twice X generic mana. X=0 is legal; the ability taps Bruce, follows summoning-sickness rules, and may be activated only at sorcery timing. Activated-cost reduction and copying: A reducer changes the resulting generic activation cost, not X. A copied draw activation keeps the original X without paying {X}{X} or tapping Bruce again. Copied transform instructions: Current rule 701.27f allows only the first resolving copy/original from that stack sequence to transform the permanent; later copies do nothing because it has transformed since the ability was put on the stack. This resolves a conflict in the supplied research. Moonmist tradeoff: Moonmist can transform front-face Bruce because he is Human. It prevents most combat damage that turn, but not noncombat damage such as Caltrops. Enrage damage events: Positive combat or noncombat damage creates a trigger; fully prevented damage does not. Several sources dealing damage simultaneously form one damage event and one trigger, while separate events trigger separately. Attack-state and lethal damage: The counter does not require attacking. Untap and the additional combat do. If lethal damage removes Hulk before resolution, no counter or untap occurs, while the official attacking-object ruling preserves the additional combat. Official source conflict: Oracle says one counter. A release-note explanation says three in a lethal-damage example. The verifier resolves the conflict in favor of Oracle without deleting the conflicting note.

Last reviewed: Aug 22, 2026

Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk role: Hulk turns each paid damage event into another combat and grows.

Rules notes: Verified Oracle facts: The repository and current Scryfall Oracle agree on both faces, including one +1/+1 counter per resolving Enrage trigger. Official MDFC Commander rules: This modal transforming double-faced card is one commander. Either face may be cast from the command zone, prior command-zone casts create one shared commander-tax count, and both faces share one commander-damage identity. Face characteristics: Use the chosen/current face on the stack and battlefield. Outside those zones, use the front face unless a specific MDFC rule says otherwise. Transformation continuity: Transforming keeps the same permanent, commander identity, controller, tapped state, counters, marked damage, attachments, and control-duration history. It neither re-enters nor triggers ETBs. Bruce draw activation: Choose X, then {X}{X} contributes twice X generic mana. X=0 is legal; the ability taps Bruce, follows summoning-sickness rules, and may be activated only at sorcery timing. Activated-cost reduction and copying: A reducer changes the resulting generic activation cost, not X. A copied draw activation keeps the original X without paying {X}{X} or tapping Bruce again. Copied transform instructions: Current rule 701.27f allows only the first resolving copy/original from that stack sequence to transform the permanent; later copies do nothing because it has transformed since the ability was put on the stack. This resolves a conflict in the supplied research. Moonmist tradeoff: Moonmist can transform front-face Bruce because he is Human. It prevents most combat damage that turn, but not noncombat damage such as Caltrops. Enrage damage events: Positive combat or noncombat damage creates a trigger; fully prevented damage does not. Several sources dealing damage simultaneously form one damage event and one trigger, while separate events trigger separately. Attack-state and lethal damage: The counter does not require attacking. Untap and the additional combat do. If lethal damage removes Hulk before resolution, no counter or untap occurs, while the official attacking-object ruling preserves the additional combat. Official source conflict: Oracle says one counter. A release-note explanation says three in a lethal-damage example. The verifier resolves the conflict in favor of Oracle without deleting the conflicting note.

Last reviewed: Aug 22, 2026