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Baxter, Fly in the Ointment

Legendary Creature — Insect Mutant Scientist · {3}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever Baxter enters or attacks, each creature you control with a counter on it gains flying until end of turn. Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Baxter.

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What Baxter, Fly in the Ointment 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 Baxter enters or attacks, each creature you control with a counter on it gains flying until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · drawWhenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Baxter.

What a Baxter, Fly in the Ointment deck needs

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

• card draw, wheels and cantrips (each card drawn triggers it)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Baxter, Fly in the Ointment deck plan

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

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Baxter, Fly in the Ointment

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 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Baxter, Fly in the Ointment is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + O'aka, Traveling Merchant + Mind Over Matter9 decks
• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Helm Of Awakening
• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Etherium Sculptor
• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Cloud Key
• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Stone Calendar
• Baxter, Fly in the Ointment + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Semblance Anvil

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