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Baxter Stockman

Baxter Stockman

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist · {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

When Baxter Stockman enters, create a 1/1 colorless Robot artifact creature token. At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact creature you control gets +3/+0 and gains first strike and vigilance until end of turn.
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What Baxter Stockman actually does

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What a Baxter Stockman deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Baxter Stockman

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.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Escape Protocol2 mana
  7. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
  8. Essence Flux1 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Temple of Epiphany0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Izzet Boilerworks0 mana
  6. Lotus Field0 mana
  7. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  8. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  3. Castle Embereth0 mana
  4. Fire Nation Palace0 mana
  5. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  6. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  7. Crash Through1 mana
  8. Eldritch Immunity1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  4. Siege-Gang Lieutenant4 mana
  5. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  6. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  7. Anax, Hardened in the Forge3 mana
  8. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Suspend1 mana
  7. Snap2 mana
  8. Into the Flood Maw1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Displacement Wave2 mana
  3. Breaking Point3 mana
  4. Crack the Earth1 mana
  5. Filter Out3 mana
  6. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  7. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
  8. Devastating Dreams2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Goblin Recruiter2 mana

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