"Brims" Barone, Midway Mobster

"Brims" Barone is a hat-themed commander that rewards you for building around creatures with the hat creature type. When he enters, he pumps all your other hat creatures with +1/+1 counters, setting up a board presence that grows quickly. The menace ability is a bonus if you happen to be wearing a hat in real life, but the real gameplan is assembling a small army of hat creatures and attacking with a slightly evasive threat.

Your core strategy is to play out hat creatures early, then drop Brims to pump them all at once. This creates a surprisingly aggressive clock while you build into bigger threats. Since hat creatures are a niche type, you'll lean on Orzhov's removal and reanimation to fill gaps, using creatures like Obispo and other hat-wearing folks from Magic's stranger corners. You win through combat damage by overwhelming opponents with an evasive, hard-to-block team.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.