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Farmer Cotton
Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant · {X}{G}{W} · Green/White commander
When this creature enters, create X 1/1 white Halfling creature tokens and X Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
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What Farmer Cotton 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 · etbWhen this creature enters, create X 1/1 white Halfling creature tokens and X Food tokens.
What a Farmer Cotton deck needs
Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ramp, and ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it bigger (its enter trigger is sized by X — a blink makes X zero)
The Farmer Cotton deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Farmer Cotton
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
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Emiel the Blessed4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 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
- Eladamri's Call2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Farmer Cotton
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Farmer Cotton is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Farmer Cotton + Samwise Gamgee + Academy Manufactor + Ashnod's Altar1,055 decks
- Farmer Cotton + Samwise Gamgee + Academy Manufactor + Phyrexian Altar512 decks
- Farmer Cotton + Jaheira, Friend Of The Forest + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth207 decks
- Farmer Cotton + Jaheira, Friend Of The Forest + Academy Manufactor + Meticulous Excavation81 decks
- Farmer Cotton + Cloudstone Curio + Academy Manufactor + Ashnod's Altar80 decks
- Farmer Cotton + Phyrexian Altar + Krark-Clan Ironworks80 decks