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Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry

Legendary Creature — Bat Mutant · {1}{R} · Red commander

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, Wingnut gains your choice of flying, menace, or haste until end of turn. Whenever Wingnut attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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What Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry 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 another creature you control enters, Wingnut gains your choice of flying, menace, or haste until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Wingnut attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
• Keyword · menacemenace

What a Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry deck needs

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

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry deck plan

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

• 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 17× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 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

Best cards for Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry

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.

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