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Baylen, the Haymaker

Baylen, the Haymaker

Legendary Creature — Rabbit Warrior · {R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

Tap two untapped tokens you control: Add one mana of any color. Tap three untapped tokens you control: Draw a card. Tap four untapped tokens you control: Put three +1/+1 counters on Baylen. It gains trample until end of turn.
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What Baylen, the Haymaker actually does

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

What a Baylen, the Haymaker deck needs

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

The Baylen, the Haymaker deck plan

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

Best cards for Baylen, the Haymaker

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

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  3. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  4. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  5. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  8. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Conclave Mentor2 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  7. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  8. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Gruul Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

Combos with Baylen, the Haymaker

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Baylen, the Haymaker is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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