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Baru, Fist of Krosa
Legendary Creature — Human Druid · {3}{G}{G} · Green commander
Whenever a Forest enters, green creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Baru, Fist of Krosa: Create an X/X green Wurm creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.
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What Baru, Fist of Krosa 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 · etbWhenever a Forest enters, green creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
- Activated abilityDiscard another card named Baru, Fist of Krosa: Create an X/X green Wurm creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.
What a Baru, Fist of Krosa deck needs
Plays as team keywords. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- green creatures (its anthem pumps only them)
- land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
- creatures that profit from trample (it grants the team it)
The Baru, Fist of Krosa deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 21× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 17× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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
- 6× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Baru, Fist of Krosa
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.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
- Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Return of the Wildspeaker5 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
- Sylvan Anthem2 mana
- Weaver of Harmony2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with Baru, Fist of Krosa
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Baru, Fist of Krosa is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Baru, Fist of Krosa + Bramble Sovereign + Paleoloth38 decks