Baylen by Samlew613

Format: Commander

Commander: Baylen, the Haymaker

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This Baylen, the Haymaker deck is an optimized Naya token midrange strategy that converts incidental creature and artifact tokens into continuous mana, card flow, and offensive pressure. The game plan starts by deploying efficient mana dorks and low-cost token generators. Once Baylen enters the battlefield, any token becomes an expendable resource to draw extra cards or generate colored mana. The deck controls the tempo of the table through asymmetric stax pieces like High Noon and Aura Shards, which severely hinder opponents while Baylen easily operates through activated abilities. Resilient protection spells like Dawn's Truce, Flare of Fortitude, and Voice of Victory safeguard key permanents from sweepers and spot removal. To close the game, the deck leverages token multipliers, burn triggers from Agate Instigator, an unblockable alpha strike with Akroma's Will, or an enormous Crackle with Power to eliminate all three opponents in decisive fashion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Baylen, the Haymaker
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Druid's Call
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Fog
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 High Noon
  • 1 Hop to It
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mite Overseer
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Oltec Matterweaver
  • 1 One Last Job
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Strands
  • 1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Retrofitter Foundry
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit Link
  • 1 Stone by Sunlight
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scavenging
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Vulshok Factory
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth