Baylen, the Haymaker (SLD/Food) by Wrathfire

Format: Commander

Commander: Baylen, the Haymaker

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Naya deck is a high-velocity token swarm engine commanded by Baylen, the Haymaker. Baylen turns every token—creatures, Food, Clues, and Treasures—into versatile mana acceleration, repeatable card draw, or massive combat pressure with trample. The early turns focus on developing efficient ramp and low-cost token generators such as Carrot Cake, Prosperous Innkeeper, and Ocelot Pride. Once Baylen enters on Turn 3, the deck converts token production into rapid resource velocity, chaining into potent doublers like Doubling Season and Anointed Procession or explosive token makers like Cadira, Caller of the Small and Farmer Cotton. By Turn 5, the deck pivots into game-ending combat overruns via Craterhoof Behemoth, Pathbreaker Ibex, or Akroma's Will, overwhelming all three opponents with trample and combat buffs. A resilient protection suite including Clever Concealment and Flawless Maneuver insulates the board from wipes, while flexible instant-speed removal disrupts critical opposing threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baylen, the Haymaker
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brandywine Farmer
  • 1 Bumbleflower's Sharepot
  • 1 By Invitation Only
  • 1 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law
  • 1 Cadira, Caller of the Small
  • 1 Carrot Cake
  • 1 Chatter of the Squirrel
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finneas, Ace Archer
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hop to It
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nesting Dovehawk
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Pawpatch Formation
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Pollen-Shield Hare // Hare Raising
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Regal Bunnicorn
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rite of Harmony
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Season of the Burrow
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stardew Valley
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Valley Questcaller
  • 1 Warren Warleader
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth