Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Toby, Beastie Befriender

Mana value3EDHREC#5,141

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The Commander

When Toby enters, create a 4/4 white Beast creature token with "This token can't attack or block alone."

As long as you control four or more creature tokens, creature tokens you control have flying.

Guide

Gameplan

Toby is a mono-white go-wide token commander: flood the board with creature tokens, hit four or more, and turn your whole army into evasive flyers that swing for the win. Early turns build mana and token generators, mid-game you saturate the board, then anthems and the built-in flying ability close it out over the top.

Strengths

Built-in evasion: with 4+ tokens your entire team flies, dodging ground blockers
Free 4/4 body on cast that fuels the token count immediately
Mono-white access to the best token producers, anthems, and recursion in the format
Resilient — even if Toby dies the tokens stay; recast is cheap at 3 mana

Weaknesses

Board wipes are devastating to a go-wide token shell
Mono-white lacks card draw and ramp, leading to topdeck flooding
Needs to maintain four tokens to keep flying online — a wrath turns off evasion entirely
Limited interaction outside white removal; struggles against fast combo

Key Cards

Anointed Procession — Doubles every token you make, instantly clearing the four-token threshold and overwhelming the board.
Intangible Virtue — A cheap anthem that pumps your token army into a lethal evasive force.
Skullclamp — Solves white's card-draw problem by sacrificing small tokens for two cards each.
Divine Visitation — Turns every token into a 4/4 flying Angel, supercharging Toby's evasion plan.
Cathars' Crusade — Each token entering pumps the whole team, snowballing your board into game-ending stats.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana rocks (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet) and white's best token doublers and anthems to accelerate hitting the four-token threshold. Improve card flow with Skullclamp, Welcoming Vampire, and Mentor of the Meek so you don't run out of gas, and include protection like Teferi's Protection or Heroic Intervention to survive the board wipes that prey on token decks.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Swing wide with an evasive flying token army buffed by anthems
▸Convoke or pump a single overwhelming alpha strike through the air
▸Divine Visitation / Cathars' Crusade turning tokens into oversized flyers
▸Skullclamp-fueled grind into an unstoppable board state

Archetypes

Tokens — Toby is purpose-built to flood the board and turn tokens into flying threats.
Go-Wide Aggro — The flying anthem lets a swarm of small bodies attack unblocked for huge damage.
Anthem Beatdown — Mono-white stacks team-wide pumps that pair naturally with the token count for lethal swings.
Aristocrats — With Skullclamp and sac outlets, expendable tokens become card advantage and value engines.