As I mentioned last week, I drew Naya colours for our club’s upcoming MTG Commander event and decided to build Baylen, the Haymaker. I resolvedto flood the table with rabbit tokens! Today, let’s take a look at the deck I’m planning to build. There may be changes later, but I have something drawn up.
Obviously, the first card I grabbed was Baylen:
Baylen the Haymaker doesn’t summon the rabbits himself, but he’s the one who turns them into an economic engine and potential win condition. This Commander deck is built around casting Hare Apparent repeatedly to flood the board with tokens, then using blink effects, doublers, and ETB payoffs to convert that swarm into overwhelming card draw, damage, and victory.
It plays like a storm combo deck (further enhanced by cards like Thrumming Stone), but with a whimsical twist: the battlefield becomes a rabbit warren, and Baylen is the mastermind behind the mayhem.
Well, actually, is he?
Something I really like about this deck is that we don’t actually need Baylen. He’s not going to make or break the deck. Sure, he extracts great value, but most of the deck’s win conditions don’t need him on the board. I like it when you’re not completely at the mercy of folk removing your commander.
At the heart of the deck are 25 copies of Hare Apparent, a two-mana creature that creates a Rabbit token for each other Hare Apparent on the board. With Doubling Season, Anointed Procession, or Mondrak, each cast creates even more tokens. With Panharmonicon, blink spells, and recursion, those triggers stack into a crescendo of value.
The goal is to cast Hare Apparent repeatedly, protect your board with blink effects, and then win through one of several explosive finishers.
There are several key strengths and synegies in here:
- Doubling Season, Anointed Procession, and Mondrak, Glory Dominus turn each Hare Apparent into a rabbit explosion.
- Ghostway, Lae’zel’s Acrobatics, Semester’s End, and Eerie Interlude protect your board and retrigger ETBs, generating even more Hares.
- Baylen converts every token into card draw, turning Hare Apparent into a pseudo-cantrip that scales with your board.
- Purphoros, God of the Forge (in the bizarre, Amano art Final Fantasy edition), Impact Tremors, Suture Priest, Agate Instigator, and Warleader’s Call deal damage or drain life with every token.
- Halo Fountain untaps creatures and wins the game with enough bodies.
- Craterhoof Behemoth turns your rabbit army into a lethal stampede.
- Arabella, Abandoned Doll hands out big damage as an attack trigger.
This deck thrives in multiplayer by building incrementally and exploding suddenly. Hare Apparent casts are innocuous early on, but once Baylen and a doubler are online, each one becomes a draw spell, a damage trigger, and a board presence. Blink spells let you dodge wipes and retrigger your entire engine, often leading to a second storm turn. It rewards sequencing, timing, and knowing when to pivot from setup to kill.
Thematically, the deck is a surreal blend of pastoral charm and overwhelming force. The battlefield fills with harmless-looking rabbits, but behind the fluff lies a ruthless engine of card draw and damage. Baylen isn’t the hero; he’s the strategist, turning every Rabbit token into an incredibly flexible resource.
Cards like Arabella, Abandoned Doll, Halo Fountain, and Raise the Past reinforce the fairy-tale aesthetic, while Craterhoof Behemoth delivers the final, stomping punchline.
This Baylen deck is a bunny-based value engine with multiple win conditions, explosive turns, and a deceptively cute battlefield presence. It rewards clever sequencing, blink timing, and knowing when to pivot from setup to kill. Whether burning the table with ETB triggers or trampling through with Craterhoof, Baylen ensures that every rabbit counts.
You can see the Moxfield page for this deck by clicking here, or using the QR code, below:
I’m really looking forward to playing this deck. It’s quite different to anything else I’ve played. Crucially, I feel that I’ve managed to make it very different from my other token deck, led by Shroofus. It’s also a deck that I can easily repurpose as an Arabella Deck with minimal edits. I’ve wanted an Arabella deck for some time, so I’m happy to be able to double up in this way. I
f you’ve ever wanted to pop off with a pile of one-mana bunny spells, this is your haymaker moment.
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