Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

Professor Hojo

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The Commander

The first activated ability you activate during your turn that targets a creature you control costs {2} less to activate.

Whenever one or more creatures you control become the target of an activated ability, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Guide

Gameplan

Professor Hojo turns your activated abilities into card advantage engines: every turn the first ability targeting one of your creatures costs {2} less, and you draw a card the first time any of your creatures gets targeted by an activated ability. You ramp out a board of value creatures, then lean on repeatable abilities (equip, pump, counters, regrowth-on-a-stick) to draw cards and snowball into a dominant green midrange or +1/+1 counter board.

Strengths

Free card every turn once you have an activatable target, fighting mono-green's chronic card-draw problem
Cost reduction makes expensive equip/pump abilities far more castable, accelerating your engine
Only two mana, so he comes down early and rebuilds quickly after removal
Slots into many green shells (counters, equipment, fight) without demanding a niche package

Weaknesses

Both abilities are capped at once per turn, so you can't loop a single activation for infinite value
Needs creatures on board plus an ability source; a clean board wipe shuts the engine off
No built-in evasion or protection, so he and your team are vulnerable to spot removal
Mono-green offers limited interaction, leaving you weak to combo and control decks

Key Cards

Ezuri, Renegade Leader — His regenerate and overrun abilities target your creatures, triggering draws while protecting the team.
Walking Ballista — Its activated ability can target your own creatures to draw, and it removes counters for damage as a payoff.
Bow of Nylea — A repeatable activated ability that targets a creature each turn for counters or deathtouch, cheap with Hojo's discount.
Lightning Greaves — Equip targets a creature and is free with the discount, drawing a card while granting haste and hexproof to protect Hojo.
The Ozolith — Banks counters from your dying creatures, fueling a counters strategy that pairs with Hojo's ability triggers.
Heroic Intervention — Cheap protection to keep your board and engine alive through wraths and targeted removal.

Upgrade Path

Add stronger discounted activated-ability engines (Ozzie counters payoffs, repeatable fight outlets, cheap equipment) and lean into the per-turn draw with ramp like Sol Ring, Cultivate, and mana dorks to deploy multiple threats. Improve protection with Heroic Intervention, Snakeskin Veil, and Lightning Greaves, and round out with a tutorable finisher such as Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes to convert your board into a kill.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Overrun effects like Ezuri or Craterhoof Behemoth to alpha-strike with a wide board
▸Voltron beatdown with an equipped, evasive threat
▸Walking Ballista or similar damage outlets fueled by accumulated counters
▸Grinding out card advantage until you simply out-resource the table

Archetypes

+1/+1 Counters — Counter-adding abilities target creatures, drawing cards while building a lethal board.
Voltron / Equipment — Equip is an activated ability that targets a creature, so suiting up a threat also draws and is discounted.
Midrange Value — His repeatable card draw fixes mono-green's card disadvantage, enabling a grindy go-wide value plan.
Fight Tribal — Fight and bite abilities target your creatures to remove threats and draw a card each turn.