Talking about their modern teams (90s and onwards, anything previous is before my time).
Since then they've usually built around defensively solid players in midfield, rather than having any standout playmaker (Dunga and Mauro Silva, Kleberson and Gilberto Silva, Fernandinho and Luiz Gustavo, Casemiro and Paulinho).
Sorry I've thougth you've implied ever, still, it isn't exactly that scenario either. It's not that much a question of tactics and players in some determinated role, it's more a question of strategy.
Brazil by tradition preffers to play on the break, to punish on the fly after recovering the ball and use even a lot of tactical fouls when defending to actually destroy the mindset of their rivals, to being punished as they could deliver dammage almost on every attack and later when the rival had the ball be stopped instantly on their tracks, this broke mentally lots of teams against them.
That being said, they had that 82 team more passing oriented and in 58 when they wanted they hold to the ball a lot, they'll do it. Yet that's not primarly their more used style.They more than anything will always live for and by the goal as their major trait.
The 94 team was indeed very much defensive oriented, yet Mauro Silva was a very skilled fella for a defensive minded player. The 90 team also prioritized Alemao and Dunga, above a Silas, more in the mould of what you are saying.
Yet since the 90's they've also used a lot of offensive midfielders, playmakers, mediapuntas mostly from the more dinamic type, that also had lots of goals in them, from Ronaldinho to Rivaldo or Kaka, to less dinamic, more traditional, organizative types like Alex, Silas, Rai, Marcelinho or Ganso to name some. Certainly all those names were playmakers, with different styles, atributes, yet offensive mids.
They also had historically players like Toninho Cerezo (a more launcher type), Falcao, that even not being their primary role to be a playmaker, had the tools to do it and influenced matches in such style.
Yet the main thing it's that they will still choose primarly to hammer, to punish inmediatly as they can, instead of sobing, keep the ball or try with lots of patience to find a gap. They would do that control, that keeping of the ball in their best periods, only sometimes when a difference was made in the match.
If they didn't had entirely the control of the match, having less possesion, their playmakers still would tend to be more direct, more assertive and risky than what normally a Rai, a Socrates, would do, yet even a Gerson in the early days easily would switch gears to a more direct approach after controlling the tempo of a match. When you have the type of forwards they have, you want to give every little advantage you can with some space, so they'll destroy you.
