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Baldin, Century Herdmaster

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {4}{W}{W} · White commander

During your turn, each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Whenever Baldin attacks, up to one hundred target creatures each get +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

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What Baldin, Century Herdmaster actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Baldin attacks, up to one hundred target creatures each get +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
• AbilityDuring your turn, each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

What a Baldin, Century Herdmaster deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• high-toughness creatures (on your turn they deal damage equal to toughness)
• a full hand (its attack gives +0/+X for each card in hand)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander

The Baldin, Century Herdmaster deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 20× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Baldin, Century Herdmaster

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Baldin, Century Herdmaster

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Baldin, Century Herdmaster is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Baldin, Century Herdmaster + Horobi, Death's Wail85 decks

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